Book People mailing list: So long, and thanks….

News

We had some new friends over for dinner last night, and towards dessert, the conversation turned to books, and eventually to all the books that were now available online. They were quite interested in the travel accounts by women that Mary had been putting online, and remarked “You must have a passion for this.” When […]

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Farewell to “The Book People List”

News

Well, life today, as so often, has been so hectic, with newspaper articles and interviews to do about the recent PR blitzes from billion dollar products or at least what they HOPE will be such, that I am down to the wire with well under an hour to Mark’s deadline and so I must do […]

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eBooks Versus Digital Picture Books

News

eBooks as I invented them are what you would get if you sat at your computer and typed in a book the same way a person types in anything else, however, but most of the news items that claim a million books are book pictures rather than actual computer characters. Here is the difference: When […]

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DP Canada now “Live”

News

For several months DP Canada was running in limited operation. On December 1, 2007 they went “live” again. DP Canada is dedicated to; Preserving Canadiana one page at a time Taking advanatge of Canada’s more liberal copyright laws to ensure public access to books in the Public Domain in Canada. PGC presented the first DP […]

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International Year Of Languages

News

“Acting without a vote, the Assembly, also recognizing that the United Nations pursues multilingualism as a means of promoting, protecting and preserving diversity of languages and cultures globally, emphasized the paramount importance of the equality of the Organization’s six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).” Note the lack of languages from India […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-12-19)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_12_19.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, December 19, 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 ————– Our automated listing showed 79 new eBooks [usually […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-12-12)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_12_12.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, December 12, 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 ————– From Wednesday to Wednesday we received 89 in […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-12-05)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_12_05.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, December 5, 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 ————– Just a note to say that 63 eBooks […]

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PG-News on Pause: limited activity for 3 weeks

News

Due to a seriously limited internet access the PG-News site will not be update for the next 3 weeks. My apologies to all for this and I thank you for your patience. — Ed

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-11-28)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_11_28.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, November 28, 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 ————– An unofficial count of the week’s progress via […]

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Poll Results – How many PG e-texts have you read?

PG News

So here they are, after…err, several months, the final results from the ‘How many e-texts have you read from the PG archives?‘ Poll. Even after all this time there are still only 50 votes cast. Top of the list is 200+ e-text read from the PG archives but the big surprise for me is that […]

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