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Print Encyclopedias Join Dinosaurs (Part 2)

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In 1985 when Gary Kildall, IBM’s first choice before Bill Gates to design their PC’s operating system a few years earlier, came out with the first electronic encyclopedia, who would figure it would be only a quarter of a century before print encyclopedias faded from the limelight to join vinyl records and dinosaurs? $999 would […]

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Print Encyclopedias Join Dinosaurs (Part 1)

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It’s all over for those hefty paper encyclopedias. No less an authority than The New York Times tells us it is time to “Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias,” that it is all over other than rolling out the last few editions of some last few hard-boiled Luddites who insist on paper encyclopedias, at […]

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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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Towards A Universal Digital Library: A Few Milestones

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Many of us dream of a universal digital library freely available on the web, i.e. available anywhere and at any time. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive and others, we are getting there, at least for the books from public domain. The process began a while ago with a few pioneers – It is […]

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El Proyecto Gutenberg, de 1971 hasta hoy

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Traducido por Anna Alvarez Las líneas que siguen están dedicadas a todos los voluntarios del Proyecto Gutenberg en los cinco continentes. Gracias a ellos, más de 20.000 clásicos de la literatura mundial ya están disponibles en la red, en una versión gratuita y de gran calidad, con una previsión de una biblioteca de un millón […]

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Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader will go on Sale in the UK

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With reference to this Times Online article, it seems that the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader are to be made available in the UK sometime over the next few months — it’s about bloody time! …the launch of two rival devices due to come on sale in Britain over the next few months – […]

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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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One million books scanned at University of Michigan

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A Million Books Scanned at U. of Michigan — and Counting Librarians at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor threw themselves a party on Friday to celebrate a milestone in their ambitious effort to scan every single book in the collection. They scanned the one millionth book, leaving just 6.5-million to go. Most of […]

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A History of Project Gutenberg from 1971-2005

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This article is dedicated to all Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders volunteers on the five continents, who offer us a free library of 16,000 high-quality eBooks, mainly classics of world literature, with a goal of one million eBooks in ten years. This article is also available in French.

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Le Projet Gutenberg, de 1971 à 2005

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par Marie Lebert, 15 août 2005 Ce dossier du Net des études françaises (NEF) est aussi une communication du troisième symposium international sur les études françaises valorisées par les technologies: langages et dialogues interculturels (octobre 2005, Université York, Toronto, Canada). Les lignes qui suivent sont dédiées à tous les volontaires du Projet Gutenberg et de […]

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WordsCloseTogether.com – Search inside PG books!

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Sony’s Reader Digital Book and Amazon’s Kindle are battling over their reading devices and the books that they offer. $1.99 at Amazon gets you one public domain book. Amazon boasts: “To use the search feature, simply type in a word or phrase you’re looking for, and Kindle will find every instance…”. Whoops! No combinations of […]

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