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PG Monthly Newsletter (2013-05-01)

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This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for May 2013 CONTENTS * #25,000 from Distributed Proofreaders * Copyright Threat in Canada * New eBook releases from the past month * #25,000 from Distributed Proofreaders Art and Practice of Silver Printing, by H. P. Robinson and Capt. Abney www.gutenberg.org/etext/42547 Thanks to The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at [...]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2013-04-03)

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This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for April 2013 CONTENTS * New language: Ancient Greek * New eBook releases from the past month * New language: Ancient Greek This is our first eBook in Ancient Greek. This is Project Gutenberg’s 63rd language. There are some scholarly and practical discussions of Ancient Greek versus Modern Greek, [...]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2013-03-06)

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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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PG Monthly Newsletter (2013-02-07)

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This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for February 2014 CONTENTS * Visit Project Gutenberg on Facebook and other social media * Help sought for Storybud * New eBook releases from the past month * Visit Project Gutenberg on Facebook and other social media Project Gutenberg maintains a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/project.gutenberg, and also a new [...]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2012-10-03)

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This is the Project Gutenberg newsletter for October 2012. CONTENTS ** Purchases at GoneReading.com help to support literacy ** New eBook listings ** Purchases at GoneReading.com help to support literacy Check out the unique collection of gifts for readers available at www.GoneReading.com. A philanthropic-enterprise, GoneReading donates 100% of its after-tax profits to spread the magic [...]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2012-07-04)

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This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for July, 2012 In this newsletter: * Birthday of the eBook * Grand opening of self.gutenberg.org * EBook #40000 * New eBook listings * Birthday of the eBook Today is July 4. It is the Independence Day holiday in the United States, and marks the 41st birthday of electronic [...]

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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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Project Gutenberg: Timeline Events

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The latest Project Gutenberg Grand Total figures have just passed 37,500 titles this past month and will have 40,000 eBooks during our 40th year celebration, 1,000 a year over 40 years doesn’t sound like much, but we are on track right now to do 5,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 100,000 books [...]

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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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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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