Project Gutenberg Newsletter October 2025

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PGLAF CEO Greg Newby’s Medical Status

Greg has worked on Project Gutenberg since 1991, and directed the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF) as CEO since its founding in 2000. Greg has been the guiding hand of Project Gutenberg, and PGLAF, along with helping to launch Distributed Proofreaders, for more than 30 years.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter August-September 2025

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Video about Three AI Initiatives

Here’s a 19-minute online presentation Professor Ilana Kingsley made for the Pacific Northwest Library Association annual conference.

It’s about three artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives that PG has undertaken in the past couple of years. First is the audiobooks, followed by browsing categories & book summaries. Also a bonus application that is rather neat.

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2016-12-10)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for October-December 2016

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As seen on Jeopardy…

Seen on the television game show “Jeopardy,” November 16 2016: Michael Hart and Project Gutenberg were the answers!

Position opening at Project Gutenberg affiliate

World Journals Library, www.WorldJournals.org is currently interviewing for a position as our OA and PA Journal Publisher Liaison. This is a part time position and the hours are flexible around your current work schedule.

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2016-09-07)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for August-September 2016

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Anniversary of Michael Hart’s death

On September 6, 2011, the founder of Project Gutenberg died. Michael Hart was born on March 8, 1947. From his invention of the eBook in 1971 until his death, Michael devoted a huge portion of his intellect, love and energy to the creation and free distribution of electronic literature. The impacts of these efforts are significant, and ongoing.

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2016-07-07)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for June-July 2016

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Project Gutenberg is 45 years old!

July 4, 2016 was the 45th birthday of Project Gutenberg. On July 4, 1971,founder Michael S. Hart typed the U.S. Declaration of Independence (now available at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1). Michael worked tirelessly to make the world’s great literature freely available in electronic form. Today, eBooks are a mainstay of the human experience with literature and content of all types.

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2016-05-05)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for April-May 2016

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Canadians have an opportunity to comment on the TPP

The deadline is June 30 for comments on any aspect of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This is a new international treaty that, among other things, would curtail growth of the public domain in many parts of the world. The TPP has been mentioned in the Project Gutenberg newsletter and featured on the main page at www.gutenberg.org

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2016-03-03)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for March 2016

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Arabic platform for Project Gutenberg eBooks

From www.ektab.com, an app platform provider focused on Arabic speaking people around the world:

We are very much pleased, proud and thankful for offering the first English ebooks on an Arabic platform to over 350 million Arabic speaking around the world

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2016-02-03)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for February 2016

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The TPP is signed, not yet ratified

Project Gutenberg is concerned about the negative impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the public domain. If this international treaty is ratified and enacted, the TPP will effectively halt growth of the public domain in most signatory countries. There are many other questionable aspects of the TPP.

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Distributed Proofreaders 15th Anniversary

Distributed Proofreaders celebrates its 15th Anniversary and digitizes 30,000th public domain book.

Succasunna, NJ — Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net) is celebrating both its 15th Anniversary and the digitization of its 30,000th unique public domain e-book. Founded 1 October 2000, Distributed Proofreaders is a crowdsourced website whose volunteers convert books to electronic formats and make them available for free distribution via Project Gutenberg.

The 30,000 e-books we’ve produced represent a wide variety of literature including Science, Technology, Medicine, Poetry, Archaeology, Folklore, Literature, Drama, Music, History, Autobiography, Political Science, and General and Juvenile Fiction. Titles include the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope, Molière and Goethe. And Distributed Proofreaders produces e-books in several languages in addition to English, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Tagalog, Esperanto, and others.

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Project Hart: free eReaders for kids

Project Hart is a nonprofit created in the legacy of Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg. Our mission is to make ebooks accessible for everyone. There are so many free ebooks in this world, but many people do not have the computers or internet to access these digital libraries. Project Hart aims to solve this issue by giving ereaders full of ebooks to people in need. We plan to do this through raising funds to buy ereaders and receiving donations of used ereaders.

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