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Project Gutenberg archives reach 28,000 eBook titles!

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As of May 21, 2008: “Original Project Gutenberg eBook” site totals have reached 28,000, details below. Please do not forget the 1600+ from PG of Australia, the ~500 from PG Europe, and the ~100 from PG Canada, with a detailed list included below. Not to mention the sites: Gutenberg.cc with 75,000+ eBooks, and Project Runeberg […]

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Chinese eBook Collection is on the move!

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Chinese Moves Up! The Chinese collection of eBooks at Project Gutenberg has been increasing steadily and there are now over 300 titles in the archive. The PG Chinese eBook collection has now taken over 5th place in the language lists (excluding English.) Congratulations to everyone involved in producing this collection.

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Volunteers Needed for the Gutenberg Newsletter

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Back in January we mentioned that there was going to be a Newsletter Team. Unfortunately this will now not happen. Project Gutenberg is therefore putting forward a request for volunteers to help out with the weekly newsletter. Everyone is welcome to participate no matter what your background. Please use our Contact page and let us […]

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Perl or Excel Experts Needed!

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If there are any experts out there in Perl or Excel, you would be greatly appreciated in helping us with PG statistical numbers; daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. We can provide data, and hopefully you can provide us with weekly, monthly or yearly totals for the Newsletters. If you would like a complete listing of […]

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PG Canada posts their 100th eBook!

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We’ve just posted the 100th eBook. It’s from 1904, seems not to have been reprinted, and is a very interesting account of Toronto’s legal establishment in the 19th century: it’s a rather spectacular addition to the collection. Here’s the description from the website: 2008/03/25: As our 100th eBook, we’ve chosen this beautifully illustrated history of […]

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Top Project Gutenberg Languages for Feb-2008

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Michael Hart mailed a ‘Top Listing’ for the various eBook languages posted to the Project Gutenberg archives, with the totals for each language included. As to be expected, English comes in at the top, French a clear second with over one thousand eBooks posted to the archives. With the great number of Chinese texts posted […]

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The Newsletter Team is Born!

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If you receive the PG Newsletter each week you will know that I am stepping down as the editor. I’ve had a great time and I am very grateful to Michael and Greg for giving me a chance to try my own ideas for the newsletter, including starting up the Gutenberg News website. If you’re […]

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A Guardian Netbytes article on the Project Gutenberg archives

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Peruse the world’s best public library Jack Schofield wrote this nice little article for the Guardian website yesterday. He talks about the project archives, volunteering and includes a nice little quote from the site about preservation. Here is the article in full; If you fancy a good read, Project Gutenberg has more than 22,000 books […]

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The 500th German Language Book Posted To Project Gutenberg!

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The German-language e-book producing community and the German Team at Distributed Proofreaders proudly present the 500th German e-book at Project Gutenberg! We hope you enjoy it, as well as all the other German books we’ve posted so far, and you will be looking forward to the next 500 books as much as we do! (Die […]

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End of 2007 PG Statistics

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Another year is over for Project Gutenberg and as always it has been a busy one. Although we started out a little slow we had a great charge in the last few months, yet again our volunteers posted over four thousands new titles. We hit some impressive milestones along the way and also welcomed some […]

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Poll Results – How many PG e-texts have you read?

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So here they are, after…err, several months, the final results from the ‘How many e-texts have you read from the PG archives?‘ Poll. Even after all this time there are still only 50 votes cast. Top of the list is 200+ e-text read from the PG archives but the big surprise for me is that […]

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