PG Newsletter Archives: 2010

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Monthly Newsletters All of the Project Gutenberg Newsletters sent via our mailing lists during 2010 will be archived here on gutenbergnews.org for easy viewing. If you wish to subscribe to our monthly newsletters please read the newsletter information page. pgmonthly_2010_12_21: Missing section pgmonthly_2010_12_21 pgmonthly_2010_11_21 pgmonthly_2010_10_21 pgmonthly_2010_09_21 pgmonthly_2010_08_22 Extra: Newsletter Correction pgmonthly_2010_08_21 pgmonthly_2010_08_16 Extra: Where should […]

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Project Gutenberg Ends One Year And Starts Another

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Noon, January 6, 2010, is the end of our calendar production year number 39 and the beginning of our 40th year, though our 40 years of calendar time won’t be complete until July 5, 2011. Milestones Of The Year In 2009 we saw our 35,000th internally produced eBook go out, and our 25,000 in English, […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Yearly Report (2010-01-06)

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Project Gutenberg Ends One Year And Starts Another Noon, January 6, 2010, is the end of our calendar production year number 39 and the beginning of our 40th year, though our 40 years of calendar time won’t be complete until July 5, 2011. This date is due to our previous calendar being a weekly one […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2009-12-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Dec. 21, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 36 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 3 years 0 months, 12 0/3 seasons or 36 months. Not to worry, I will still make […]

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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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PG Monthly Newsletter (2009-11-22)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Nov. 21, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 37 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 3 years 1 months, 12 1/3 seasons or 37 months. Not to worry, I will still make […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: About Wattpad (2009-11-22)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Nov. 21, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 Rather than including this with the monthly statistics, we are preenting this as a separate email to make this easy to save and reference. From: http://www.wattpad.com/about In 2006, we set out to revolutionize the way people publish and read […]

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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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