How many eBooks can be given away in the next 15 years?

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In the first 50 years of The Gutenberg Press more books were created than in all previous history. Will this also be true of Project Gutenberg’s invention of a modern Gutenberg Press via the electronic book? Starting With The Present Let’s just consider the 100,000 eBooks available freely from Project Gutenberg, but keep in mind […]

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Distributed Proofreaders Complete Their 10,000th eBook!

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On Friday 9 March, 2007, DP released 15 books in celebration of their 10,000th posting to Project Gutenberg. DP’s 10,000th unique book is; The Annals of the Cakchiquels, by Daniel G. Brinton 20775 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/7/20775 ] [Files: 20775.txt; 20775-8.txt; 20775-0.txt; 20775-h.htm] Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to support the digitization of […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-03-07)

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pgweekly_2007_03_07.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, March 7, 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. THIS WEEKS NEWS ————— MANY HAPPY RETURNS to Michael Hart on […]

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Daylight Saving Time changes for U.S.A. from 2007

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Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time is brought forward by 3 or 4 weeks in Spring and extended by one week in the Fall. The schedule for the states of the United States that adopt daylight saving time will be: 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March. Time will revert to standard time at […]

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University of Illinois joins the Open Content Alliance

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois has joined an alliance of educational institutions, Internet companies and other groups in the U.S. and abroad that is building a massive digital archive of public domain books for universal and free public access. In addition to Illinois, other partners in the Open Content Alliance include Adobe Systems, […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-02-28)

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pgweekly_2007_02_28.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, February 28, 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. THIS WEEKS NEWS ————— MINOR ADJUSTMENT TO PG-EU UNIQUE/DUPLICATE TOTALS Another […]

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Random House Introduces New Search Tool

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Random House has introduced a search tool on its Web site that will make available a small portion of text from 5,000 of its new and backlist titles, the company announced yesterday. As much as 10 percent of each book, typically a front cover, introduction and first chapter, will be accessible on the Random House […]

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Keith Kyle – Historian and writer dies aged 81

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A brilliant historian and writer, he made sense of the world for television audiences. Keith Kyle, who has died aged 81, was a distinguished historian and a prolific writer and broadcaster with an extraordinary capacity for making sense out of complex, politically sensitive scenarios. Those who watched him on the BBC Tonight programmes in the […]

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Children’s Book Banned for Single Word

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An award-winning children’s book has been banned from some US schools and libraries because it contains the word “scrotum”. Susan Patron’s The Higher Power of Lucky, which won this year’s prestigious Newbery Medal for children’s literature, has incurred the wrath of teachers and librarians over a passage on the opening page in which a character […]

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Germany Plans New EU-Wide History Book

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Europe is more likely to be agonising about its future, but now it is the past that is proving contentious. Yesterday it emerged that Germany was hoping to exploit its EU presidency to promote a new school history book for the European Union. At a meeting in Heidelberg next week of EU education ministers, Berlin […]

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Creating Accessible Digital Media – WGBH Guidelines

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Following is an excerpt from the Introduction of the Accessible Digital Media guidelines produced by WGBH. These guidelines, providing step-by-step solutions for making a variety of electronic media accessible to users with sensory disabilities and are available free of charge. Accessible Digital Media Design Guidelines for Electronic Publications, Multimedia and the Web Properly designed e-books, […]

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