Word for Word

News

Electronic publishing is replacing print, changing reading as well as society. Cavemen used charcoal to write on walls. Ancient Egyptians scrawled hieroglyphics on papyrus scrolls. Medieval monks penned illuminated manuscripts on parchment. Then Johannes Gutenberg changed the world with movable type, making writing available to all. Now a revolution is under way that is rapidly […]

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Under the News – Sony “RootKit” Settlement

News

It would appear that Sony has reached some kind of unpublicized settlement with the FTC? concerning their “RootKit” malware the corporation used in its music CDs last year, that was basically a virus that then left their victims open to more viruses. Sony agreed to pay a fine of $4.5 million and up to $150 […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-02-21)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_02_21.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, February 21, 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 ————— TRENCH ON WORDS – A REVIEW C.1928 […]

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Steinbeck sale sets new world record

News

A rare edition of John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath has sold for $47,800 (£24,380), doubling the estimated price and setting what is believed to be a world record for a book by the Nobel Prize-winning author. The sale was part of an auction of first editions previously owned by Steinbeck’s sister, Elizabeth […]

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Trench on Words – A Review c.1928

Book ReviewsNews

Recently Brett Fishburne was going through some donated books and came across a copy of “Trench on Words”, which is already in the PG collection (text #6480), that had a newspaper review glued to the front. The newspaper title from which the review was printed was not in the information that was glued to the […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-02-14)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_02_14.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, February 14, 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 ————— MAJOR UPDATE OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG NEWSLETTER […]

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Major Update of Project Gutenberg Newsletter Statistics

PG News

For sometime I’ve been working through the Newsletter Archives doing a manual count on all the ‘posted’ listings, then entering the results into a spreadsheet. I wanted to confirm that all the statistics added up correctly. There was some inconsistencies but I believe that now it is a much more accurate week-by-week, year-by-year account. As […]

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PG Reserved / Pending List

PG News

The following is a listing of all the entries on the Project Gutenberg Reserved/Pending list. These numbers have been reserved for various reason and at present there is no date as to when they will get posted. Reserved / Pending gbnewby 20000 Reserved “The Road Leads On, by Knut Hamsun” 7536 Reserved “The Arabian Nights […]

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Unwrapping Paragraphs in a PG eBook – A HOW TO

Create eBooks

If you’re interested in converting the Project Gutenberg Plain-Vanilla ASCII texts into PDF, HTML or other format that will allow you to create a versatile display format, then you may find it useful to remove the mid-paragraph hard linebreaks that exist in these files. A ‘How To’ was recently posted on the Project Gutenberg gutvol-d […]

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Digital Text Masters: A Future for Public Domain eBooks?

News

The following article was posted by Jon Noring on the TeleRead blog in February 2007. This is an excellent discussion on why Digital Text Master files should be created along with ideas on how to implement it. — Ed ‘Digital Text Masters’ (Digitizing the classic public domain books) by Jon Noring The recent TeleBlog articles […]

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The Ecstasy of Influence

News

This is an extract from Jonathan Lethem’s article on copyright in Harper’s. It’s a long article but well worth the read.   Literature has been in a plundered, fragmentary state for a long time. When I was thirteen I purchased an anthology of Beat writing. Immediately, and to my very great excitement, I discovered one […]

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