IDPF Names New Executive Director: Michael Smith

News

Michael Smith to Promote eBook Standards for Publishing and Digital Reading New York, NY 11/20/07 – The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the international trade and standards association for the eBook and digital publishing industry has named Michael Smith its new executive director. As executive director Michael Smith is responsible for leading the operational and […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-11-21)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_11_21.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, November 21, 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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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-11-14)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_11_14.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, November 14, 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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The Digital Text Community (DTC) – A New Mailing List

News

Forwarding a message sent by Jon Noring to various mailing lists — Ed I am announcing the start of “The Digital Text Community” (DTC), a public mailing list (on YahooGroups) devoted to serious discussion of digitizing “ink-on-paper” publications. The full group “charter” is found at the group’s “home page” at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/ DTC will be lightly […]

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Book People mailing list to close down!

News

In the last few days, John Mark Ockerbloom announced that he is retiring the 10 year old Book People mailing list. I only caught the tail end of this run but the discussions on their were very good indeed. It seems that anyone who took part also thought the same. Here follows the post (in […]

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How to Convert an eBook to MP3

Reading Apps

One of the easiest ways to start creating MP3 files of eBooks is to visit download TextAloud from NextUp. The product costs $29.95 but they do have a trial offer for you to try out. Then you will need a “voice”. Because I am British I use “Graham” from Acapela. Voices from this manufacturer cost […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-11-07)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_11_07.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, November 7, 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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TEI v1.0 of P5 Released

News

So it is finally here, TEI v1.0 of P5. Around six months ago I did some research into TEI and noted there was some big improvements over P4. If you need a mature XML based markup (perhaps for use as a Master File Format) I would certainly recommend having look at TEI P5. Here is […]

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MarketIntellNow: eBooks Poll

News

Project Gutenberg recently received an email from MarketIntellNow, a Maryland-based, six-year old market research firm that focuses on nascent niches. They do a lot of polling using a methodology called “ANWO”, they then blog about the results at a high level (for free) while selling the resulting report in their eStore. Of late they have […]

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Speak The Speech – Shakespeare audio for free

News

In response to our Shakespeare Actors Wanted request, where we are looking for volunteers actors to read the plays of Shakespeare, I had an email from a Peter Pressman who wrote to me about the Speak The Speech project. This is a group of volunteers who are wanting to make Shakespeare more universally accessible by […]

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Bookeen Cybook Gen3 (CYBGEN310BS)

eReaders

The Cybook Gen3 from Bookeen is an ultra-light reading device that uses the E ink® screen technology (VizPlex), giving a paper-like high contrast appearance that is readable even under direct sunlight. As with all E-Ink devices the battery gives a great number of page turns, though the Cybook is a little better than the Sony […]

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