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Library of Congress give free access to Copyright Database!

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Here’s an article found over at TeleRead that should be of great interest to Project Gutenberg. Sixteen million copyright records from the U.S. Copyright Office are now available in bulk, thanks to the efforts of Carl Malamud (left), Peter Brantley and others. No more will the feds charge tens of thousands of dollars for subscriptions […]

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Amazon.com Novel Writing Contest

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Amazon is getting into the author-writing contest arena, launching the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award today in cooperation with Penguin and Hewlett-Packard. Amazon will accept submissions through November 5 and the winner will have his or her novel published by Penguin, which is also offering a $25,000 advance. PW will serve as preliminary judges of […]

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Borders and Sony partnership with new online store

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Borders is expanding its relationship with Sony, adding the technology company’s e-book reader to over 200 more of its superstores, while also agreeing to develop a co-branded store to facilitate e-book sales. Borders has been selling the Sony Reader in 270 of its superstore since last November and will now offer it for sale in […]

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Harlequin to release all its titles in eBook format!

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Harlequin said yesterday that from this point forward it is making its complete frontlist catalogue available in e-book format. Active in the e-book marketplace since October 2005, with an initial publication schedule of nine titles a month, Harlequin will now be releasing more than 120 titles per month in both print and digital formats. Harlequin’s […]

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Harry Potter to go digital?

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In an articel found on The Independent on Sunday website, it seems that the Harry Potter titles could officially go digital; A source close to Bloomsbury, the publisher of the Harry Potter novels, said the company was also keen to adapt literary works to the new technology. May people believe that J.K.Rowling should already have […]

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The Mobile Library releases classic and modern literature for cellphones

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German developer QiOO Interactive hosts the ‘Mobile Library’ – a service that brings classic books as well as modern literature to JAVA™-enabled cellphones. The portfolio ranges from Aristotle over Mark Twain to such extraordinary authors as Algernon Blackwood. As the founder Thomas Lucka states the Mobile Library will continue to release high quality books in […]

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First Book receives $1 Million Donation

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First Book is a site that aims to help literacy by giving children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first books. This week Publishers Weekly reported on this very generous donation from Random House. Flexing its philanthropic muscle, Random House is making a multiyear $1-million donation to First Book, the national […]

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PG Branded books at The Mobile Library

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Die Handybibliothek (The Mobile Library) now has some PG branded books (in English) available on their website. These are FREE books availbe in the JAR and JAD formats. With the later you can download them “over the air”. It would be great if anyone with a WAP enabled phone could check them out and let […]

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yBook Reader: A Review

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Good non-clunky free e-book readers available NOW Regarding the clunkiness or otherwise of e-book readers, I was absolutely delighted when I tried yBook, as mentioned in the George Davis article in the PG Newletter of 13 June 2007. You can tailor it to your own preferences in typeface, font size, type colour, background colour and […]

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Scrollbox online library and e-reader

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Scrollbox.org is an online library and e-reader. It’s designed to be a simple way of reading eBooks on computers and phones with internet access. It uses no images or video so pages load quickly, and allows users to upload books for their own use. Scrollbox remembers what you were reading last time you visited and […]

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The @folio eReader

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@folio is a reading device conceived in October 1996 by Pierre Schweitzer, an architect-designer living in Strasbourg, France. It is meant to download and read any text and/or illustrations from the web or hard disk, in any format, with no proprietary format and no DRM. The technology of @folio is novel and simple, and very […]

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