- December 30, 2006: Project Gutenberg’s website is now available in Portuguese. This is the first full version of the documentation in a language other than English. Other versions are welcome.
- October 1, 2006: Another month of the WorldEBookFair. During October 2006, about 1/2 million free eBooks are available. Sponsored by the World eBook Library, Project Gutenberg, and others.
- May 12, 2006: Distributed Proofreaders, book-provider to and part of Project Gutenberg, has become incorporated as the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation, in order to be better able to deal with the cost of running a web application with tens of thousands of users.
- May 4, 2006: 1/3 Million eBooks Free from July 4 Through August 4. Press release: 1/3 of a million books, or 10 times the number found in the average public library, will be available for free downloading via the Internet and World Wide Web beginning July 4, as Project Gutenberg and the World eBook Library act on their dreams of increased world literacy and education.
- March 4, 2006: Which book should every adult read before they die? That is the question the British Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLAC) asked librarians. According to The Guardian, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee received the most votes, followed by the Bible (ca. 150), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (1955) by JRR Tolkien, 1984 (1949) by George Orwell, A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë, Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929, in German as Im Westen nichts Neues) by Erich Maria Remarque, His Dark Materials trilogy (2000) by Phillip Pullman and Birdsong (1993) by Sebastian Faulks.
- February 22, 2006: Distributed Proofreaders published its 8000th ebook at Project Gutenberg: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870. Written by W.E.B. Du Bois, it was the book of his PhD dissertation; in 1895, Du Bois was the first black American to receive a PhD from Harvard.
This page has been created as an archive of the 2006 news from the gutenberg.org website.
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