Tolkien tips Potter from Amazon top spot

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In a dramatic seachange in book sales, the dead have risen to smite the hitherto all-conquering boy sorceror. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has, for the past 16 weeks, looked to be the invincible champion of the bestseller lists, despite being more than three months away from publication. But the wizardy whippersnapper hadn’t reckoned […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-04-18)

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pgweekly_2007_04_18.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, April 18, 2007 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, i.e. 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 York Times article mentioning PG

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Though I don’t read Finnish, Portuguese or Icelandic, it is of some comfort to know that hundreds of books in these languages are now stored on my computer. They are in good company. Just as I am not likely ever to read “Hattu Yksinaytoksinen Huvinaytelma” by Alfhild Agrell, so, too, will I probably never work […]

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Congratulations to PG of Australia on their 1500th eBook

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Congratulations to Project Gutenberg Australia for reaching eBook number #1500. Here are some words from both Colin Choat and Michael Hart. Milestones at Project Gutenberg of Australia Recently we added ebook #1500 to our collection. One does not usually single out a volunteer for mention but it seems appropriate on this occasion. Significantly, the ebook […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-04-11)

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pgweekly_2007_04_11.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, April 11, 2007 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, i.e. 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 Gutenberg TV Personality Needed

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A four part series on the history of reading currently in production is looking for a Project Gutenberg volunteer to participate. Ideally, this individual has had a long involvement with Project Gutenberg, has uploaded vast numbers of books, speaks passionately about the role of books in society and the need for universal access to texts […]

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Electronic Paper Edging Toward Reality

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) – “Electronic paper” has long been hyped as the future of newspapers and books, but products like e-books have been slow to take off. That may soon change, say executives involved in the pioneering technology. While Internet companies are scanning libraries of books and making them available online, E Ink Corp., which […]

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Database of Copyright Renewal Records now Available

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Stanford University recently made available a searchable Copyright Renewal Database. This certainly seems like it could be a useful tool. Here’s what Greg Newby (Project Gutenberg CEO) said about it; “The front page mentioned they use PG’s content. It sounds like this is the further-developed version of Michael Lesk’s stuff at Rutgers, which we point […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-04-04)

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pgweekly_2007_04_04.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, April 4, 2007 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, i.e. Courier New. Windows NotePad is a good a program to use for viewing. NOTICE —— Adjusted PG-EU totals due to an error on my […]

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What is Project Gutenberg TEI?

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PGTEI is first and foremost a markup language. Just like HTML puts tags around words to give them some sort of meaning, PGTEI puts tags around words, too. Where a HTML document would italicize a word with <em>emphasis tags</em>, PGTEI would italicize a word with <emph>emphasis tags</emph>, too. Same basic principle, different vocubulary. So, why […]

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In Paris, Language Sparks Culture War

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With French long engaged in a losing battle against English around the world, a new way of fighting back has been proposed by a multinational group of authors who write in French: uncouple the language from France and turn French literature into “world literature” written in French. For guardians of the language of Molière, Voltaire […]

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