PG Monthly Newsletter: In Prose (2009-11-05)

Newsletters

New Project Gutenberg Newsletter Format Project Gutenberg Prose Newsletter November 5th, 2009 Please allow me to introduce our new Newsletter Editor, Andrea Kobeszko: Andrea Crisp <andreamcrisp at yahoo.com> and also to introduce our new Newsletter format, which, as requested is going to be shorter due to being bi-weekly, the 5th and 21st of months. The […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2009-10-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Oct. 21, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 38 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 3 years 2 months, 12 2/3 seasons or 38 months. Not to worry, I will still make […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2009-09-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Sep. 21, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 39 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 3 years 3 months, 13 1/4 seasons or 39 months. Not to worry, I will still make […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Rosetta Stone (2009-08-25)

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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newlsetter [gmonthly] Rosetta Stone as eBook We are exploring doing something on the order of public domain translations of the various Ancient Greek, Coptic, Hieroglyphs et al from The Rosetta Stone. Please advise if you would be interested in helping. We put this in Preprints: http://preprints.readingroo.ms/rosetta/ Including a README.TXT Original source: http://books.google.com/books?id=Q5Ow9Ub_BIgC&oe=UTF-8 […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2009-08-24)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Aug. 24, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 40 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 3 years 4 months, 13 1/3 seasons or 40 months. Not to worry, I will still make […]

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World eBook Fair Ends Tuesday August 4 Midnight

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We try to time this so people in all times zones can get a selection from the two million plus free eBooks or the 125  thousand commercial eBooks [just ask for a discount] right  up to the last minute of Tuesday. At this time we are estimating one million downloads a day on the average, […]

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World eBook Fair Prepares For Final Week

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Many more books have been added since our initial report on the start of The World eBook Fair on July 4. As expected, Internet Archive is keeping up with their goal of adding another ~25,000 titles, about 1,000 each business day, but another 25,000 comes from the general readership of the patrons. We get messages […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2009-07-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–July 21, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 41 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 3 years 5 months, 13 2/3 seasons or 41 months. Not to worry, I will still make […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Extra (2009-07-18)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter EXTRA, July 18, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 I’m sending this out now because I have serious doubts as to whether I will be able to do this very easily when the Newsletter is actually due. This may be the last time on this hard […]

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2.5 Million eBooks at World eBook Fair

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Over 3 Million Items Feted At World eBook Fair Project Gutenberg, The World Public Library, The Internet Archive, and ebooksabouteverything are proud to sponsor the fourth edition of The World eBook Fair. July 4 – August 4 at http://www.worldebookfair.org eBook readers will have over 2 million to pick from: ~1.5 million from http://www.archive.org ~ .5 […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2009-06-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–June 21, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 42 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 3 years 6 months, 14 seasons or 42 months. Not to worry, I will still make long […]

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