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World eBook Fair Prepares For Final Week

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Many more books have been added since our initial report on the start of The World eBook Fair on July 4. As expected, Internet Archive is keeping up with their goal of adding another ~25,000 titles, about 1,000 each business day, but another 25,000 comes from the general readership of the patrons. We get messages […]

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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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Why The Inventor Of eBooks Says Kindle Won’t Go

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Many people have argue with me for years on the subject of dedicated eBook reader devices, with any number of reasons they like them, but it is really only that they can’t read small print or they still want “the look and feel” of the dead trees pulp bound up in dead animal skins. I […]

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The 2008 Project Gutenberg Year In Review

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eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 It’s been another fantastic year at Project Gutenberg with yet many more landmarks and milestones to add to an ever increasing list. The Complete “CIA World Factbooks” The latest project to be completed is “The CIA Factbook,” complete, from 1990 to 2008. It has been many […]

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The Project Gutenberg Error Correction Team

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This is a follow up to the previous newsletter release from Michael Hart requesting volunteers to help with error correction in PG text’s. As a response to Michael’s request a new page has been set up on the PG Wiki: ErrorCorrection. PG is currently using a Request Tracker (RT) ticketing system for dealing with errata […]

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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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UK Release of the Sony Reader PRS-505

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So here we are, just over a week until Waterstones start shipping out those lovely new Sony Reader PRS-505’s to all us UK residents! This is going to be the first E-Ink reader from one of the big boys to enter the UK market . The Sony Reader has been getting substantial coverage in mainstream […]

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Waterstones: first to sell Sony Reader in the UK

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Great news for all us UK based eBook lovers. Sony are finally releasing their Reader Digital Book (PRS-505) to the UK market! Sony have partnered with the UK book store Waterstones, who will start selling the Reader from 3rd September 2008 for £199 – available for Pre-Order (see below). This costs a little more than […]

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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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Project Gutenberg (1971-2008)

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Marie Lebert has completely rewritten and brought up-to-date her excellent article on the history of Project Gutenberg – Ed Contents Overview A Bet Since 1971 The Method Shared Proofreading Becoming Multingual Public Domain vs. Copyright From the Past to the Future Chronology Stats Links OVERVIEW August 1997: 1,000 books April 2002: 5,000 books October 2003: […]

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Portable Reading: Turn your iPhone/iPod Touch into an eBook reader

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Portable Reading offers a service to read books from a library of over 20,000 Gutenberg titles in dozens of languages. Readers can upload their own book and share it with friends. They can also communicate with each other and with authors by writing reviews and annotating individual pages with notes. The reading interface is customizable […]

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