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Project Gutenberg April 2009 Newsletter

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Just recently Project Gutenberg had a major crashe of their hardrives and subsequently lost some data and the newsletter lists were destroyed. They are currently using some ancient backups but most people should still be on the list. A number of poeple have been asking how to subscriber/unsubscribe from the Project Gutenberg mailing list. Full […]

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Book People mailing list: So long, and thanks….

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We had some new friends over for dinner last night, and towards dessert, the conversation turned to books, and eventually to all the books that were now available online. They were quite interested in the travel accounts by women that Mary had been putting online, and remarked “You must have a passion for this.” When […]

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Farewell to “The Book People List”

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Well, life today, as so often, has been so hectic, with newspaper articles and interviews to do about the recent PR blitzes from billion dollar products or at least what they HOPE will be such, that I am down to the wire with well under an hour to Mark’s deadline and so I must do […]

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The Digital Text Community (DTC) – A New Mailing List

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Forwarding a message sent by Jon Noring to various mailing lists — Ed I am announcing the start of “The Digital Text Community” (DTC), a public mailing list (on YahooGroups) devoted to serious discussion of digitizing “ink-on-paper” publications. The full group “charter” is found at the group’s “home page” at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/ DTC will be lightly […]

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Book People mailing list to close down!

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In the last few days, John Mark Ockerbloom announced that he is retiring the 10 year old Book People mailing list. I only caught the tail end of this run but the discussions on their were very good indeed. It seems that anyone who took part also thought the same. Here follows the post (in […]

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