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2.5 Million eBooks at World eBook Fair

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Over 3 Million Items Feted At World eBook Fair Project Gutenberg, The World Public Library, The Internet Archive, and ebooksabouteverything are proud to sponsor the fourth edition of The World eBook Fair. July 4 – August 4 at http://www.worldebookfair.org eBook readers will have over 2 million to pick from: ~1.5 million from http://www.archive.org ~ .5 […]

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Project Gutenberg release Mobile Edition eBooks

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PG Mobile is going to be a new addition to gutenberg.org, which will allow mobile/cell phone users to download and read eBooks. The files will be available on the normal download page of any PG eBook. Here is the full Press Release. Look For PG Mobile – Project Gutenberg’s Mobile Edition Why using Amazon’s proprietary […]

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World eBook Fair 2008 starts today!

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A Million Plus Books Free for the Taking! July 4 2008 The Third Annual World eBook Fair Starts July 4th. “Own Your Own Library” is the theme of this year’s World eBook Fair. Starting July 4th you will be able to do just that in an unprecedented opportunity to download books in the widest variety […]

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Future History: Spacefaring Societies, Resources and Logistics

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I recently updated my Future History: Spacefaring Societies, Resources and Logistics essay, that expands on the Afterwords and References chapters in my e-novel ‘The Universe–or Nothing.’ The novel (2006) is archived in the Project Gutenberg Library Archive Foundation (PGLAF) from where it may be freely downloaded at: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18257 The essay (about 8,000 words and more […]

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eBooks for Free from Major Publishers!

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After all these years of saying free eBooks were anathema to the Olde Boye Networke of the publishing world…. The publishers are finally realizing that when eBooks are given away free of charge actually increase paper sales–not that there weren’t any number of academic studies and articles saying this from the very beginning. So, if […]

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