Project Gutenberg 23.5k Milestone [ASCII Graph Included]

Project Gutenberg passes another eBooks milestone today, over 23,500 eBooks that have been created by the Project Gutenberg army of volunteers. . . . !!!!!!!My HUGE Congratulations to all the volunteers!!!!!!! This is including over 1500 contributions from Project Gutenberg Australia, and about 500 from Project Gutenberg Europe, but DOES NOT INCLUDE well over 75,000 […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-05-23)

Pgweekly_2007_05_23.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, May 23, 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. NEWSLETTER COMMENTS ——————- I made a counting error on 2007-04-25. Adding […]

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In print forever? Sometimes, authors would rather go out of print

NEW YORK: The offer from Simon & Schuster seems ideal: Let us publish your book and it will never go out of print. Even if it sells just one copy a year, we’ll keep it available, thanks to digital technology. And that, says the Authors Guild, which represents thousands of published writers, is unacceptable. “A […]

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Sony Reader PRS-500

Sony Reader PRS-500

UPDATE: The Sony PRS-500 has now been discontinued – its replacement is a big improvement over this version. Check out my article on the Sony Reader Digital Book PRS-505 Possibly one of the most important advancements for eBook readers is the E-Ink® screen technology, and the Sony Reader is the first major commercial device to […]

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Revamped Google Adds More Book Data

After a major redesign of its famous search engine, Google is introducing what it calls a “universal search” system that will combine search retrievals for each request and offer the most relevant results from across all of its specialized search engines, like Google Book Search, News and Images. As a result, books are more likely […]

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Speculative fiction, the Earth’s nonrenewable resources

Projecting inferences of realities into a past or a future is a device often used by writers to portray the ‘effects’ of prevailing circumstances or events. Meyer (Mike) Moldeven, a retired civilian logistics analyst for the U. S. Air Force, chose the distant future as the setting for his e-novel ‘The Universe-or Nothing.’ The work […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-05-16)

Pgweekly_2007_05_16.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, May 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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Second Annual World eBook Fair Starts July 4th

Effective May 16: World eBook Fair Starts in 7 Weeks http://www.worldebookfair.com 787,000 Total eBook Files Will Be Listed [over 3/4 million] 2/3 Million Unique Free eBook + ~110,000 Commercial eBooks eBooks in over 100 Different Languages! Created by Contributions from 150+ eLibraries Around the World Last year 1,000 newspapers carried this story when 1/3 million […]

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Michael Hart Interviewed on NPR about Digital Libraries

This coming weekend an interview with Michael Hart about Digital Libraries will be broadcast on NPR [National Public Radio]. In this interview he was also joined by Brewster Kahle (The Internet Archive) and Michael Keller (Librarian of Stanford). Michael specifically talks about wearing Digital Libraries on a necklace, Terabyte hard drives and creating a Billion […]

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Vizplex: Next Generation Electronic Ink Technology

E Ink Corporation, the leading provider of electronic paper display (EPD) technology, today announced the launch of its next-generation electronic ink technology, offering significant improvements in performance and shipping under the new trade name VizplexTM Imaging Film. “E Ink continues to be at the forefront of the electronic paper revolution. This is a major improvement […]

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Digital Devices Star at IDPF’s Digital Book 2007

While talks about cutting-edge smartphones dominated last year’s Digital Book Conference—the International Digital Publishing Forum’s annual e-publishing conference in New York—the focus of the morning session this year was market feedback on the progress of devices like the Sony Reader and the introduction of new ones, such as Telecom Italia’s pocket-sized Librofonio, which is expect […]

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