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PG Monthly Newsletter (2014-03-05)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for March 2014. CONTENTS * Michael Hart’s birthday * Read an eBook Week * New eBook listings from February 2014 * Michael Hart’s birthday Michael Hart’s birthday 67th birthday would have been Thursday March 6, 2014. In commemoration, long-time friend Jim Berger has written some reflections. The reflections, and […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2013-03-06)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for March 2013 CONTENTS * Michael Hart’s birthday * Read an eBook Week * New eBook releases from the past month * Michael Hart’s birthday Michael Hart would have turned 66 on his birthday, September 6 2013. For more of Michael’s legacy, including links to news coverage of his […]

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2011 is the Year of the eBook

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There are three times as many ereader devices now than just a single year ago, and Amazon has just announced that their own eBooks now have eight authors selling over a million eBooks. Of course, this is a million eBooks total, none of the eBooks are million sellers on their own, while sites such as […]

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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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