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Prior to defining the concept of \textit{distant publishing}, it is first instructive to understand \textit{distant reading} within the context of digital humanities. \textit{Distant reading} was first codified in 2000 by noted humanist and scholar Franco Moretti:  \begin{quote} 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. \cite{Moretti_2000}  \end{quote}  Moretti later expanded the concept in  his 2013 monograph of the same name \cite{Moretti_2013}. Much like the Moretti definition, the HTRC has become a distant publisher - removed by at least one degree from the creator, as well as remaining distinct 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   \begin{quote}