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\section{Distant Publishing as Concept}  In order to define the concept of \textit{distant publishing }it is first instructive to understand the concept of \textit{distant reading} as a construct within the current domain area of digital humanities. \textit{Distant reading} was first codified in 2000 and later in the monograph of the same name \cite{Moretti_2013} by noted humanist and scholar Franco Moretti. Moretti defines \textit{distant reading} as:  \begin{quote}close reading will not do it . . . . At bottom, it’s a theological exercise – very solemn treatment of very few texts taken very seriously – whereas what we really need is a little pact with the devil: we know how to read texts, now let’s learn how not to read them.  Distant reading: where distance . . . is a condition of knowledge: it allows you to focus on units that are much smaller or much larger than the text: devices, themes, tropes – or genres and systems. And if, between the very small and the very large, the text itself disappears, well, it is one of those cases when one can justifiably say, less is more. \end{quote} \cite{Moretti_2000}  Much like the Moretti definition, the HTRC has become a pubisher distant in some ways from the creator as well as from any standardized concept of publisher. Yet, the data sets that are published under the rubric of the HTRC are freeing information from the constraints of copyright that in this context, {distant publishing} could be defined as