PG Monthly Newsletter (2016-03-03)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for March 2016

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Arabic platform for Project Gutenberg eBooks

From www.ektab.com, an app platform provider focused on Arabic speaking people around the world:

We are very much pleased, proud and thankful for offering the first English ebooks on an Arabic platform to over 350 million Arabic speaking around the world

PG Monthly Newsletter (2016-02-03)

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for February 2016

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The TPP is signed, not yet ratified

Project Gutenberg is concerned about the negative impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the public domain. If this international treaty is ratified and enacted, the TPP will effectively halt growth of the public domain in most signatory countries. There are many other questionable aspects of the TPP.

Distributed Proofreaders 15th Anniversary

Distributed Proofreaders celebrates its 15th Anniversary and digitizes 30,000th public domain book.

Succasunna, NJ — Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net) is celebrating both its 15th Anniversary and the digitization of its 30,000th unique public domain e-book. Founded 1 October 2000, Distributed Proofreaders is a crowdsourced website whose volunteers convert books to electronic formats and make them available for free distribution via Project Gutenberg.

The 30,000 e-books we’ve produced represent a wide variety of literature including Science, Technology, Medicine, Poetry, Archaeology, Folklore, Literature, Drama, Music, History, Autobiography, Political Science, and General and Juvenile Fiction. Titles include the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope, Molière and Goethe. And Distributed Proofreaders produces e-books in several languages in addition to English, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Tagalog, Esperanto, and others.

Project Hart: free eReaders for kids

Project Hart is a nonprofit created in the legacy of Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg. Our mission is to make ebooks accessible for everyone. There are so many free ebooks in this world, but many people do not have the computers or internet to access these digital libraries. Project Hart aims to solve this issue by giving ereaders full of ebooks to people in need. We plan to do this through raising funds to buy ereaders and receiving donations of used ereaders.