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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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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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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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Distributed Proofreaders Celebrates 10th Anniversary

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Project Gutenberg was launched by Michael Hart in July 1971 to create free electronic versions of literary works and disseminate them worldwide. The project got its first boost with the invention of the web in 1990, and its second boost with the creation of Distributed Proofreaders in 2000, to help digitizing books from public domain. […]

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Project Gutenberg and Languages

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Project Gutenberg has been a visionary project launched by Michael Hart in July 1971 to create free electronic versions of literary works and disseminate them worldwide. The project got its first boost with the invention of the web in 1990, and its second boost with the creation of Distributed Proofreaders in 2000, to help digitizing […]

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Project Gutenberg’s CEO and Founder together in Illinois

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PG founder Michael Hart and PGLAF CEO Greg Newby will be on the panel for the upcoming symposium, Fifty Years of Public Computing at the University of Illinois, held on the University of Illinois campus. The registration is free but there are limited spaces so if you want to see both Michael and Greg then […]

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Project Gutenberg Ends One Year And Starts Another

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Noon, January 6, 2010, is the end of our calendar production year number 39 and the beginning of our 40th year, though our 40 years of calendar time won’t be complete until July 5, 2011. Milestones Of The Year In 2009 we saw our 35,000th internally produced eBook go out, and our 25,000 in English, […]

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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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New Goal Set for Project Gutenberg: One Billion Readers

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The first goal of Project Gutenberg was simply to reach totals of estimated audiences of 1.5% of the world population, or the total of 100 million people. With the advent of cell phone [mobile phone] access we are now setting our goal at 15% of the world population or 1 billion. Given that there are […]

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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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Project Gutenberg March 2009 Newsletter

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In this months newsletter, Michael Hart announces some major projects from Project Gutenberg for this year. Web Pages designed by and for our Project Gutenberg readers Michael wants to make a push for web pages to be designed by, and for, people from various age groups and in any language. This can include the youngest […]

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