PG Monthly Newsletter (2011-06-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Jun. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors at pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!! Just about TWO WEEKS!!! Is anyone familiar with an eBook program named CALIBRE? We’ve heard some great things […]

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Project Gutenberg’s Official Facebook Page

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In exploring new ways of connecting people to Project Gutenberg’s vast collection of free ebooks we’ve created our very own Facebook page. Here you’ll find all kinds of information and status updates. It should be noted that this is very much experimental – it may work, then again it may not. The more everyone gets […]

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The Sanction of the Victim

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Consider this question: Would any of our modern publishers be able to compete with a mind and heart such as that of Johannes Gutenberg? Yet they, and their predecessors, The Stationers, managed to take over the entire world of The Gutenberg Press with the first of an era of legal manipulation we call “Intellectual Property.” […]

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eBooks are now Outselling Paper Books

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Michael Hart gives us a couple of of intresting pieces of news in this months PG Newsletter. In a recent article, CNN wrote, “[a]s further proof of how digital media dominate today’s entertainment, Amazon announced Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books for its Kindle device than all print books — hardcover and paperback […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2011-05-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–May. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors at pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!! Just about 50 days!!! Headline News!!! AMAZON eBOOKS OUTSELL ALL THEIR PAPER BOOKS!!! “As further proof of how […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2011-04-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Apr. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors at pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!! Just about 100 days!!! Please note that scans of the last two years of: The CIA World Factbook […]

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30,000 English eBooks from Project Gutenberg

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Today, just six weeks after Project Gutenberg posted its 40,000th internally created book, the 30,000th English ebook has now been placed online: The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, by Archibald Henry Sayce. Thanks go out to Delphine Lettau, David King and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Team; who by the way, recently created their 20,000th […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2011-03-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Mar. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors at pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!! We Now Have Exactly 300 eBooks in Spanish!!! We Reached 40,000 Internally Created eBooks on March 1! We […]

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The Year of the eBook

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Project Gutenberg, the granddaddy of all eBook libraries, announced today they have put number 40,000 of internally produced free eBooks online as of March 1st. This raises their grand total to 100,000, as they receive a number of eBooks from other producers worldwide. These figures even subtract 15,000 for various duplications. If you have a […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2011-02-21)

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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter–Feb. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors at pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2010!!!!!! We Should Reach 39,900 Internally Created eBooks Today! 100 To Go To #40,000 SPECIAL EVENTS COMING UP!!! READ […]

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Project Gutenberg Yearly Overview: 2010

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Noon, January 6, 2011, was the end of Project Gutenberg’s 2010 production year. A great deal happened during the year though perhaps the most important was how 2010 became the year of the ebook. All ebook websites reported an increase in downloads, especially at the end of the year. Gutenberg.org also saw a big increase, […]

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