Sony Reader Digital Book (PRS-505)

eReaders

The Reader Digital Book (PRS-505) is the latest electronic book reader to be released by Sony. Now being released in a number of different countries (including U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, France, Netherlands), eBooks are set to make a big impact on our everyday reading in the very near future. The current model has some significant […]

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British Library to digitise 100,000 books

News

More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitisation programme at the British Library.The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown as few were reprinted after first editions. The library believes online access to the titles will help teachers. “If there are […]

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Library of Congress give free access to Copyright Database!

News

Here’s an article found over at TeleRead that should be of great interest to Project Gutenberg. Sixteen million copyright records from the U.S. Copyright Office are now available in bulk, thanks to the efforts of Carl Malamud (left), Peter Brantley and others. No more will the feds charge tens of thousands of dollars for subscriptions […]

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Amazon.com Novel Writing Contest

News

Amazon is getting into the author-writing contest arena, launching the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award today in cooperation with Penguin and Hewlett-Packard. Amazon will accept submissions through November 5 and the winner will have his or her novel published by Penguin, which is also offering a $25,000 advance. PW will serve as preliminary judges of […]

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What should be the 25,000th PG eBook?

PG News

There are only 250 eBooks to go before the combined Gutenberg projects reach the quarter century! Project Gutenberg U.S. currently has 22,716, while the unique posts to Project Gutenberg Australia, Europe and Canada have 1,555, 67 & 26 respectively. Add in the 386 PrePrints and we currently have 24,750 total eBooks in the PG archives. […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-09-26)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_09_26.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, September 26, 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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Borders and Sony partnership with new online store

News

Borders is expanding its relationship with Sony, adding the technology company’s e-book reader to over 200 more of its superstores, while also agreeing to develop a co-branded store to facilitate e-book sales. Borders has been selling the Sony Reader in 270 of its superstore since last November and will now offer it for sale in […]

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Harlequin to release all its titles in eBook format!

News

Harlequin said yesterday that from this point forward it is making its complete frontlist catalogue available in e-book format. Active in the e-book marketplace since October 2005, with an initial publication schedule of nine titles a month, Harlequin will now be releasing more than 120 titles per month in both print and digital formats. Harlequin’s […]

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Changes to the Newsletter counting system

PG News

This is only a minor change but should bring the PG count into line with the other gutneberg projects. I am going to start taking the count for the week NOT including the Wednesday of the Newsletter. So, each day is taken as a whole (Wed = 00:00 to 23:59). This weeks count is taken […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-09-19)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_09_19.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, September 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 ————– Visit www.pg-news.org to read these news items. * […]

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Gutenberg Newsletter Article Writers Wanted

Volunteers

Since my relocation to Germany I’m struggling to find as much time to research and put together interesting articles for the newsletter, so I’m putting this request out for volunteers. You will not be expected to write dozens of articles per week, although you are welcome :-) but if there were just a handful of […]

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