PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-06-13)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_06_13.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, June 13, 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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An essay on the state of the current eBook market

News

The following essay, Why the commercial ebook market is broken by Charlie Stross makes some excellent points about the current state of the eBook market. I especially liked, and agree with, his views on the reasons why eBook piracy exists. —Ed. Why the Commercial eBook Market is Broken (Note: In the following rant, I’m sticking […]

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Google’s Library Project Just Doubled in Size

News

Google’s plan to scan the collections of some of the world’s most prestigious libraries just doubled in size. The Mountain View, Calif.-based firm announced Wednesday that its Library Project has teamed up with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a national consortium of 12 research libraries, to digitize collections in its libraries. This is in addition […]

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Apps for Reading PG eBooks Offline

Reading Apps

Project Gutenberg is a web-based electronic re-publisher of (primarily) public domain works. Being web-based, most of the eBooks in the collection are readable in a web browser, either on-line or off-line, regardless of computer operating systems. While on-line reading is possible, most users download the eBooks for reading off-line. It is safe to say that […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-06-06)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_06_06.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, June 6, 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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Project Runeberg: Proofreading Activity Graphs

PG News

Since you seldom hear anything from Project Runeberg, you might have concluded that we’re dead now. But this is wrong. Even though less books are added, we still have people actively proofreading the pages we scanned before. Compared to PGDP.net, our system is more wiki-like (less workflow oriented) and our volunteer proofreaders can jump to […]

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The Guardian Finds ‘1984’ The Definitive 20th Century Book

News

Paranoia, propaganda and a state of perpetual war are the defining characteristics of the last century, according to the results of a national survey announced at the Hay festival today. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s dystopic vision of a totalitarian future in which the population is constantly monitored and manipulated, came top of the survey to […]

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U.S. College Textbooks Could Go Digital

News

For college students buckling under the pressure of rising textbook prices, a digital solution may soon be on the way. A report released today by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance suggests a number of short- and long-term solutions, including the creation of a national digital marketplace for textbooks, whose costs can be comparable […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-05-30)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_05_30.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, May 30, 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 eBook Translators Required

Volunteers

Michael Hart, our founder, is looking for people who are willing to translate Project Gutenberg eBooks in and out of: English French Spanish Dutch Portuguese Italian and any other languages you might like to include.

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Michael Hart wants IBM Memory Key’s

Volunteers

Michael Hart is looking for one of the original “IBM Memory Keys” that have evolved into our current RAMsticks, USBsticks, etc., or even the UK version that existed before that. It doesn’t have to be functional…he just wants it for comparison purposes. Please contact Michael at hart@pglaf.org if you might be able to provide one.

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