PG Monthly Newsletter: Pgca (2008-10-12)

Here’s the news from PG Canada for September. We published a total of 13 ebooks during the month: we have now published a cumulative total of 177 ebooks. The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always gives the details of new releases for the most recent three months. LANGUAGES: – […]

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BeBook eBook Reader

BeBook eReader

I had been reading some very interesting things about the BeBook eBook Reader, so when it arrived in the mail, I was not disappointed. On the surface this reader from Endless Ideas BV is pretty much the same as any other. However, once you start to get a little more involved you soon realise that […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Pgau (2008-10-01)

PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ============================== MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – October 2008 [includes details of ebooks placed online during September 2008] Dear Avid Reader, Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing ebooks mentioned in this newsletter. CONTENTS: ————————————— * News and Reviews […]

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter for September 2008

Project Gutenberg founder, Michael Hart, has now sent out the latest PG newsletter. We are just about to reach a new milestone; We are rapidly approaching 30,000 eBooks in the originating Project Gutenberg collections…we should pass 30,000 before the end of the year. It’s interesting to note that eBooks in the Chinese language are coming […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2008-09-21)

pgmonthly_2008_09_16.txt The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, Sep. 21, 2008 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, e.g. Courier New. Windows Notepad is a good a program to use for viewing. 51 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December […]

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PG Canada Newsletter for September 2008

Mark from PG Canada sent through his monthly newsletter covering the activities for August 2008. With 12 new eBooks released in August (7 English, 5 French) the total number of PGCA titles now reaches 164! GENRES 6 of the books were novels 3 were children’s books 2 were collections of short stories and novellas 1 […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Pgca (2008-09-16)

pgmonthly_2008_09_16-PGCA.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for September 16, 2008 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, e.g. Courier New. Windows Notepad is a good a program to use for viewing. HERE’S THE NEWS FROM PG CANADA FOR AUGUST. We published a total […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Pgca (2008-09-12)

From: Mark Akrigg [morrigg@sympatico.ca] Sent: 12 October 2008 21:14 To: Michael S. Hart Cc: john@gutenberg.us; gbnewby@pglaf.org; editor@pg-news.org Subject: September news from PG Canada Dear Michael: Here’s the news from PG Canada for September. We published a total of 13 ebooks during the month: we have now published a cumulative total of 177 ebooks. The New […]

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UK Release of the Sony Reader PRS-505

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So here we are, just over a week until Waterstones start shipping out those lovely new Sony Reader PRS-505’s to all us UK residents! This is going to be the first E-Ink reader from one of the big boys to enter the UK market . The Sony Reader has been getting substantial coverage in mainstream […]

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August 2008 – Statistics Update

Michael Hart has sent out his monthly newsletter for August 2008 and during this last month there have been a few nice milestones from the various PG projects. First up, Greg Newby has provided us with an update on the top languages found at gutenberg.org. Currently there are over 100 languages available in the archives […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter: Pgca (2008-08-21)

Here’s the news from PG Canada for July. We published a total of 14 ebooks during the month: we have now published a cumulative total of 152 ebooks. The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always gives the details of new releases for the most recent three months. LANGUAGES: – […]

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