Canadians: Speak Out on Copyright

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BIG NEWS! January’s a great time to send an email to Ottawa A unique opportunity for Canadians to defend their Public Domain (the deadline is January 31, 2011). The Opportunity Bill C-32, the bill to amend the Copyright Act, is now being examined by a parliamentary committee in Ottawa. The committee has taken the unprecedented […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Canadian Copyright (2011-01-23)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter Extra–Jan. 23, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE IS IN EIGHT DAYS!!!!!!! BIG NEWS! January’s a great time to send an email to Ottawa A unique opportunity for Canadians to defend their Public Domain by Mark Akrigg, Project Gutenberg Canada THE OPPORTUNITY […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2011-01-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Jan. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors at pglaf.org The 40th Year of PG eBooks Started on July 4, 2010!!!!! Downloaded Books as of 2010-12-20 yesterday 124,464 last 7 days 852,824 last 30 days 3,657,360 Downloaded Books […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Yearly Report (2011-01-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter Extra–Jan. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 Project Gutenberg Ends One Year And Starts Another Here are our totals for 2010 34,759 Up 3,998 From 30,761 PG General Automated Count 1,915 Up 185 From 1,830 Project Gutenberg of Australia 750* Up 75* From 675* Project […]

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PG Newsletter Archives: 2011

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Monthly Newsletters All of the Project Gutenberg Newsletters sent via our mailing lists during 2011 will be archived here on gutenbergnews.org for easy viewing. If you wish to have our monthly newsletter sent to you via email, please the newsletter information page on how to subscribe. pgmonthly_2011-12-08 pgmonthly_2011-10-05 pgmonthly_2011-07-21 pgmonthly_2011-06-21 pgmonthly_2011-05-21 pgmonthly_2011-04-21 pgmonthly_2011-03-21 pgmonthly_2011-02-21 pgmonthly_2011-01-23_canadian-copyright […]

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Cultural Genome created from eBooks

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Ever since eBooks started people have been analyzing a variety of concepts, ideas, subjects, etc. about ways a language system works. Believe it or not back in the days when The Oxford Text Archive was still thinking it could dominate the world, at least the virtual literary world, they spent several times an entire median […]

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Oprah picks Public Domain titles for her Book Club

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After all these years, Oprah finally made a selection–actually a pair of selections–from the public domain. “A Tale Of Two Cities” and “Great Expectations” both by Charles Dickens and available for years from PG and all the other eBook distributors who use our materials. In fact Tale Of Two Cities was one of our first […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2010-12-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Dec. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors at pglaf.org The 40th Year of PG eBooks Started on July 4, 2010!!!!! PROJECT GUTENERG MILESTONES We passed 39,000 eBooks this month!!! We just posted our: 550th eBook in Finnish […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Missing Portion (2010-12-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter Extra–Nov. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors at pglaf.org The 40th Year of PG eBooks Started on July 4, 2010!!!!! PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY IS COMING ON JANUARY 1, 2011 Every new year since the first copyrights […]

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January 1, 2011 will be Public Domain Day

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Every new year since the first copyrights expired, back around 1724, the world has looked forward to the expiration of copyrights and the availability of public domain works, which have been kept under publishing monopolies. This coming January 1, Europeans will see a nice list of great works entering the public domain as their copyright […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2010-11-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Nov. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors at pglaf.org The 40th Year of PG eBooks Started on July 4, 2010!!!!! PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY IS COMING ON JANUARY 1, 2011 Every new year since the first copyrights expired, […]

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