This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for March 2013
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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 passing last year, see:
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This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for September 2012.
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** In Memory of Michael Hart
** Estate Book sale September 8-9
** Wodehouse, anyone?
** Thanks!
** A new mirror site in Bulgaria
** New eBook listings
** In Memory of Michael Hart
It was nearly one year ago today that Project Gutenberg’s founder,
Michael Hart, died. You may enjoy reading more about his fascinating
career-spanning effort to bring eBooks to the world, in furtherment of
literacy and opportunity for all people.
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for August, 2012
Contents:
Virtual book fair: eFestival of Words
Interesting book of the month
New eBook listings
Virtual book fair: eFestival of Words
The eFestival of Words is the first virtual book fair dedicated to
highlighting independent and small press ebook publishers. The fair will
feature a variety of panels, workshops, Author Q & A chats, a virtual
vendor hall, and other special events. The festival is free to attend and
will be held August 17th-19th. Register now to attend at
www.efestivalofwords.com and be entered in monthly drawings to win prizes
between now and the festival.
With little fanfare, Project Gutenberg reached #40000 in its eBook series; Extinct Birds: an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times: that is, within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction, by Walter Rothschild.
From Wikipedia: Extinct Birds covers globally extinct and rare birds as well as hypothetical extinct species which include bird taxa which existence are only based on written or oral reports or on paintings. The accounts of the extinct bird taxa are based on Rothschild’s lecture On extinct and vanishing birds published in the Proceedings of the 4th International Ornithological Congress 1905 in London.
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 books. On this day
in 1971, in Urbana Illinois, Michael Hart had the opportunity, insight
and inspiration to digitize and share the United States Declaration of
Independence.