Distributed Proofreaders Celebrates 10th Anniversary

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Project Gutenberg was launched by Michael Hart in July 1971 to create free electronic versions of literary works and disseminate them worldwide. The project got its first boost with the invention of the web in 1990, and its second boost with the creation of Distributed Proofreaders in 2000, to help digitizing books from public domain. […]

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Fnacbook Touch eReader

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The biggest bookstore chain in France is about to release their very own eReader. Although not the first eReader to come from France (Cybook has that honor), the new Fnacbook Touch is the first to be released solely into the French market. The hardware will seem pretty familiar to most; 6-inch E-Ink touch screen, WiFi […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2010-10-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Oct. 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!!!!! NEW LANGUAGE LANDMARKS We are passing some serious milestones in our languages with Greek already past 100 […]

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Announcing the new Iambik Audiobook Company

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Today we received an email from Hugh McGuire, the guy who started the fantastic LibriVox public domain audiobook community (with many of their source eBooks coming from Project Gutenberg), announcing the launch of his new audiobook company called Iambik Audio. In his email he says; We are thrilled to announce the launch a new audiobook […]

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Project Gutenberg and Languages

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Project Gutenberg has been a visionary project launched by Michael Hart in July 1971 to create free electronic versions of literary works and disseminate them worldwide. The project got its first boost with the invention of the web in 1990, and its second boost with the creation of Distributed Proofreaders in 2000, to help digitizing […]

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ibis Reader

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Ibis Reader is probably the best online eReader around at the moment, allowing you to read all your DRM-free EPUB’s in any modern web browser on many different mobile devices, including Google Android and the Apple iPad/iPhone. Developed by Threepress Consulting, their EPUB reader is the next generation of the Bookworm project (now hosted at […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2010-09-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Sep. 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!!!!! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED OVER NEXT NINE MONTHS!!! We need more volunteers for these projects with about 9 months […]

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Project Gutenberg: Timeline Events

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The latest Project Gutenberg Grand Total figures have just passed 37,500 titles this past month and will have 40,000 eBooks during our 40th year celebration, 1,000 a year over 40 years doesn’t sound like much, but we are on track right now to do 5,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 100,000 books […]

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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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PG Monthly Newsletter: Newsletter Correction (2010-08-22)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter Extra–Aug. 22, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 The cd at pglaf.org address was discontinued as it was getting too much spam. The best way for someone to get a CD or DVD is to visit http://gutenberg.org/cdproject They should only email cd2010 at pglaf.org if they […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2010-08-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Aug. 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!!!!! Several Major New Projects Are In The Works. . . . Right now looking for volunteers to […]

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