El Proyecto Gutenberg, de 1971 hasta hoy

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Traducido por Anna Alvarez Las líneas que siguen están dedicadas a todos los voluntarios del Proyecto Gutenberg en los cinco continentes. Gracias a ellos, más de 20.000 clásicos de la literatura mundial ya están disponibles en la red, en una versión gratuita y de gran calidad, con una previsión de una biblioteca de un millón […]

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Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader will go on Sale in the UK

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With reference to this Times Online article, it seems that the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader are to be made available in the UK sometime over the next few months — it’s about bloody time! …the launch of two rival devices due to come on sale in Britain over the next few months – […]

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eBooks for Free from Major Publishers!

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After all these years of saying free eBooks were anathema to the Olde Boye Networke of the publishing world…. The publishers are finally realizing that when eBooks are given away free of charge actually increase paper sales–not that there weren’t any number of academic studies and articles saying this from the very beginning. So, if […]

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Top Project Gutenberg Languages for Feb-2008

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Michael Hart mailed a ‘Top Listing’ for the various eBook languages posted to the Project Gutenberg archives, with the totals for each language included. As to be expected, English comes in at the top, French a clear second with over one thousand eBooks posted to the archives. With the great number of Chinese texts posted […]

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One million books scanned at University of Michigan

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A Million Books Scanned at U. of Michigan — and Counting Librarians at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor threw themselves a party on Friday to celebrate a milestone in their ambitious effort to scan every single book in the collection. They scanned the one millionth book, leaving just 6.5-million to go. Most of […]

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A History of Project Gutenberg from 1971-2005

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This article is dedicated to all Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders volunteers on the five continents, who offer us a free library of 16,000 high-quality eBooks, mainly classics of world literature, with a goal of one million eBooks in ten years. This article is also available in French.

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Le Projet Gutenberg, de 1971 à 2005

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par Marie Lebert, 15 août 2005 Ce dossier du Net des études françaises (NEF) est aussi une communication du troisième symposium international sur les études françaises valorisées par les technologies: langages et dialogues interculturels (octobre 2005, Université York, Toronto, Canada). Les lignes qui suivent sont dédiées à tous les volontaires du Projet Gutenberg et de […]

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WordsCloseTogether.com – Search inside PG books!

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Sony’s Reader Digital Book and Amazon’s Kindle are battling over their reading devices and the books that they offer. $1.99 at Amazon gets you one public domain book. Amazon boasts: “To use the search feature, simply type in a word or phrase you’re looking for, and Kindle will find every instance…”. Whoops! No combinations of […]

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The Newsletter Team is Born!

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If you receive the PG Newsletter each week you will know that I am stepping down as the editor. I’ve had a great time and I am very grateful to Michael and Greg for giving me a chance to try my own ideas for the newsletter, including starting up the Gutenberg News website. If you’re […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2008-01-23)

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pgweekly_2008_01_23.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, Janurary 23, 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. THE NEWSLETTER TEAM IS BORN! As I’m sure many of you […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2008-01-16)

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pgweekly_2008_01_16.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, Janurary 16, 2007 ****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. NEWS HEADLINES ————– Visit www.pg-news.org to read these news items. * […]

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