Today marks 1/3 of a century of Project Gutenberg. I will be sending out several announcements today about the new Project Gutenberg Consortia Center. The first few will be extremely brief, while some that follow should answer questions you may have. The site answers to 3 domain names, just pick the the one you like the most: pgcc.net gutenberg.cc gutenberg.us There are approximately 37,000 files available on this site, 27,000 of these are HTML files, with a variety of other formats also included. The HTML files should be easily accessible from the search engine, please let us know of any that are not in the search engine, graciously loaned to us. This search engine is currently being modified to make it specify it searches Project Gutenberg eBooks. Another 10,000 or so files are accessible through a variety of links to sites provided by donors of the various eBooks. These eBooks are catalogued as per the preference of those who donated them, most with one entry to each book, but many are listed by chapter, and in some particular cases, even by page, as per those who donated them. Please let us know by reply to this email, and to info@gutenberg.cc of any ways we can improve your access. On request, I will provide a single email with an entire collection of this series of messages, for those who prefer one long message to several ones of a shorter nature. Thank you so much for all the support we received over the first 33 1/3 of Project Gutenberg. Michael S. Hart ===== Press release: THE FIRST PROJECT GUTENBERG CONSORTIUM CENTER IS OPEN!!! November 4, 2004 Today, on the one-third of a century anniversary date of Project Gutenberg, it is my pleasure to announce a site designed for the exchange of entire eBook collections-- The first of the Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers is located at a site designated by its initials: pgcc.net The mission of the Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers: to help people legally exchange eBook collections under the various new copyright laws. As you may know, different countries had copyright laws change drastically over the last few years, and we hear even more changes are coming at the end of this year. Therefore, we are making this effort to help those whom these copyright extensions will effect, to insure their continued abilities to provide free eBooks within rules of their new copyright laws; such as many EU countries, and apparently Australia at the end of this year, along with various other changes we will try to help everyone keep up with. We hope to be making similar announcements next year to let you know about more such sites under the laws of an assortment of countries worldwide. PGCC's current eBook and eDocument Collections holdings: Alex-Wire Tap Collection 2,036 HTML eBook Files Black Mask Collection 12,000 HTML eBook Files DjVu Collection 272 PDF and DJVU eBook Files eBooks@Adelaide Collection 27,709 eBook Files Himalayan Academy 3,400 HTML eBook Files Literal Systems Collection 68 Mp3 eBook Files Logos Group Collection 34,000 TXT eBook Files Poet's Corner Poetry Collection 6,700 Poems Project Gutenberg Collection 14,300 Files Renaisscance Editions Collection 561 HTML eBook Files Swami Center Collection 78 HTML eBook Files Tony Kline Collection 223 HTML eBook Files Widger Library 2,600 HTML eBook Files CIA's Electronic Reading Room 2,019 Reference Files Enjoy! Michael
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