STAReBOOK (STK-101)

eReaders

Previously only available direct from China and Taiwan, the STAReBOOK can now be purchased from their first international online shop opened in New Zealand. High-resolution, high-contrast E-Ink™ screen (15.2cm (6″) diagonal) Light weight Quick start up Low Power – read up to 10,000 pages on a single charge Software to create your own ebooks – […]

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PG-AU to start a Monthly Newsletter

PG News

Project Gutenberg of Australia is starting a monthly newsletter which will include details of postings for the month, together with occasional articles relating to the PGofAustralia site. To subscribe go to; http://gutenberg.net.au/news-form.html

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Net Radio Megamonopoly

News

As heard on “Media Matter” and “Media Minutes” on WILL-AM 580 1PM Sunday, May 6, 2007 New laws increasing royalty rates for small Internet Radio sites are scheduled to go into effect on June 15, effectively leaving the door open for mega-sites owned by the billion dollar corporations such as Clear Channel, and wiping out […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-05-09)

Newsletters

Pgweekly_2007_05_09.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, May 9, 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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Page images (.PNG) uploaded to PG website

PG News

Recently Joshua Hutchinson has been uploading eBook pages images (as PNG format) to the PG website. For example; The page images of Spacehounds of IPC, by Edward Elmer Smith are in the folder; http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/8/5/20857/20857-page-images/ The “system” used to number page images is as follows; Covers (front and back) and the illustrated inside covers and marked […]

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Greg Newby Podcast Interview At Sites Collide

News

Tyrel McMahan interviews Dr. Greg Newby, CEO/Director of Project Gutenberg about the project, the website, and copyright issues. You can listen to the interview by clicking the link below; Sites Collide #3 Project Gutenberg – Dr. Greg Newby Sites Collide, May 2, 2007

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-05-02)

Newsletters

Pgweekly_2007_05_02.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, May 2, 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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Britain’s slave trade records go online

News

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s slave trading past gets a human face on Friday as an ancestry-tracing Web site starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time. The Web site, Ancestry.co.uk, posted 100,000 names of Barbados slaves registered in 1834 in the colony. By December the site will contain the names […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-04-25)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_04_25.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, April 25, 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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New Media Guideline: Those With The Gold…Rule!!!

News

[This past Sunday – 22-April-2007] According to NPR it is the megacorp giant Time Warner who is the author of the current bill in Congress for raising the relative amount small publications pay to mail out their newspaper and magazines while reducing the relative amount paid by media giants. The expected result, more media supersaturation […]

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London Buzzing About Amazon eBook Reader

News

The buzz on the London Book Fair floor included speculation on when Amazon will launch its own e-book reader as well as the increasing number of U.K. publishers that have signed on for Google’s Book Search. Amazon has been previewing its e-reader to publishers both in the U.S. and U.K.—HarperCollins UK CEO Victoria Barnsley mentioned […]

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