PG Monthly Newsletter (2008-08-21)

Newsletters

/The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, Aug. 21, 2008/ e-Books Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 52 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring! This leaves 4 1/4 years, 17 1/3 seasons, or 52 months. Not to worry. I will still make predictions further on. Requesting A Second Time I need […]

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Le Projet Gutenberg (1971-2008)

French ArticlesPG News

Editors Note: Marie’s essay is available in English [Table] Sommaire Un pari depuis 1971 La méthode adoptée La correction partagée Des collections multilingues Domaine public versus copyright Du passé vers l’avenir Chronologie Statistiques Liens SOMMAIRE Août 1997: 1.000 livres Avril 2002: 5.000 livres Octobre 2003: 10.000 livres Janvier 2005: 15.000 livres Décembre 2006: 20.000 livres […]

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ECTACO jetBook eBook Reader

eReaders

ECTACO are probably better know for their electronic hand held translators, but now they gone and released their very own reader; the jetBook eBook Reader. The jetBook does not use an E-Ink screen, however, this does give it an advantage over all the other eBook readers that are currently out there; a crisp and very […]

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PG Australia celebrates their 7th Birthday!

PG News

In Australia it is now 1st August 2008 and Project Gutenberg Australia is celebrating its seventh birthday! In August 2001 Project Gutenberg Australia posted their first book online, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell – they now have over 1600 titles available for download. Project Gutenbereg (U.S.) only posted their 1,600th title in June 1998 – […]

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Las tecnologías y el libro para todos

Spanish Articles

Traducido por Anna Alvarez y Marie Lebert ÍNDICE Introducción Cronología 1968: ASCII 1971: Proyecto Gutenberg 1974: Internet 1990: Web 1991: Unicode 1993: Online Books Page 1993: PDF 1994: Consorcio W3C 1995: Amazon.com 1996: Internet Archive 1996: Palm Pilot 1997: Open eBook 1999: Bibliotecarios digitales 1999: Web multilingüe 2000: Mobipocket 2000: Public Library of Science 2000: […]

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Waterstones: first to sell Sony Reader in the UK

News

Great news for all us UK based eBook lovers. Sony are finally releasing their Reader Digital Book (PRS-505) to the UK market! Sony have partnered with the UK book store Waterstones, who will start selling the Reader from 3rd September 2008 for £199 – available for Pre-Order (see below). This costs a little more than […]

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Stanza eBook reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Reading Apps

UPDATE: Stanza is no longer maintained so I’d recommend you try out Bluefire Reader. Checkout my iPhone review or iPad review over on epubBooks for some more information on reading EPUB books on the iPhone with Blurefire and other apps. If you are looking for a free eBook reader for your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch then you might want […]

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World eBook Fair 2008 starts today!

News

A Million Plus Books Free for the Taking! July 4 2008 The Third Annual World eBook Fair Starts July 4th. “Own Your Own Library” is the theme of this year’s World eBook Fair. Starting July 4th you will be able to do just that in an unprecedented opportunity to download books in the widest variety […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2008-07-04)

Newsletters

/The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, Jul. 04, 2008/ e-Books Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 A Million Plus Books Free for the Taking! July 4 2008 The Third Annual World eBook Fair Starts July 4th. “Own Your Own Library” is the theme of this year’s World eBook Fair. Starting July 4th you will […]

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Project Gutenberg (1971-2008)

NewsPG News

Marie Lebert has completely rewritten and brought up-to-date her excellent article on the history of Project Gutenberg – Ed Contents Overview A Bet Since 1971 The Method Shared Proofreading Becoming Multingual Public Domain vs. Copyright From the Past to the Future Chronology Stats Links OVERVIEW August 1997: 1,000 books April 2002: 5,000 books October 2003: […]

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Project Gutenberg archives reach 28,000 eBook titles!

PG News

As of May 21, 2008: “Original Project Gutenberg eBook” site totals have reached 28,000, details below. Please do not forget the 1600+ from PG of Australia, the ~500 from PG Europe, and the ~100 from PG Canada, with a detailed list included below. Not to mention the sites: Gutenberg.cc with 75,000+ eBooks, and Project Runeberg […]

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