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Working Towards Project Gutenberg’s 50th Year

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One of our newest projects is to solicit suggestions as to where Project Gutenberg should be in it’s 50th year.  The current suggestions are: Make it more obvious that PG wants error messages–how to write them, where to send them, etc. Make it more obvious that PG will send DVD’s so the people who have […]

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5th Annual World eBook Fair

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The 5th Annual World eBook Fair hopes to hand out 1 million to 2 million eBooks every day from July 4 to August 4 for a total of 50 million eBooks in a single month. Once again The World eBook Fair has added over a million new freely downloadable items in a single year to […]

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Apple iPad

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Although the iPad has been out in the U.S. for several weeks, today finally sees the day when it’s released in Europe and Australia. Taking a looking over the news sites it seems there’s been a lot of people queuing up to get hold of their own iPad which I guess now makes it big […]

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New Project Gutenberg Web Pages

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[Posted on behalf of Marc D’Hooge as requested in the PG Newsletter] We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. I think you will find some interesting additional searching and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: http://gutenberg.trulymail.com and another new effort at: http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ Details The goal I’m aiming at […]

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Project Gutenberg Canadian and Portuguese eBook Milestones

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This month has seen a couple of big milestones from within the Project Gutenberg family. Project Gutenberg of Canada Release their 500th eBook “Forty Years of Song” by Emma Albani, first published in 1911. Emma Albani (1847-1930) was the first Canadian singer to gain a worldwide reputation, which is rather something considering the combination of […]

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What I Like About eBooks by Michael Hart

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One of those things I like best about eBooks is giving them away. Not just giving them away, but how easy it is to give them away–and how many you can give away with such little effort. Another wonderful thing about eBooks is that you can correct what you find in error, or just make […]

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Libraries check out the eBook

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Across the U.S., thousands of libraries are embracing eBooks. No longer the familiar home of tomes and periodicals only, these foundations are now using new technology for more than just computerizing their catalogues. Libraries, like so many other businesses of the book, are eager to attract the digitally savvy new generation. This downloadable wave has […]

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The NET has gone mobile

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Those on the leading edge witnessed a watershed breakthrough milestone this week as the first reports came in indicating that the greater new mobile access to the Internet…great…greater…greatest. The most obvious bell they heard ringing was the sound of iPhone apps, with a first time ever report that there are now more eBooks apps than […]

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What does the future hold?

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Never was it so apparent to me how drastically our culture has changed then on one early afternoon at my local hair salon. I had arrived early, sat and immediately scanned the table for the most topical magazine. I found one, opened it and glanced fleetingly at my seatmates. There were four. One talked on […]

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An Interview with Michael Hart

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I recently had the privilege of interviewing Michael Hart, former editor and founder of Project Gutenberg. In our interview, Michael discusses the future of PG, and looks back on how it has evolved through changing times. So why are you passing the editor torch? This isn’t the first time. It’s mostly to get PG used […]

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World eBook Fair Ends Tuesday August 4 Midnight

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We try to time this so people in all times zones can get a selection from the two million plus free eBooks or the 125  thousand commercial eBooks [just ask for a discount] right  up to the last minute of Tuesday. At this time we are estimating one million downloads a day on the average, […]

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