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PG Monthly Newsletter 1992-11-24 – Anne of Green Gables

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In honor of the Holiday Season: Project Gutenberg Announces the Nov 1992 release of Nov 1992 Anne of Green Gables (anne10xx.xxx) Nov 1992 Song of the Lark (Cather) (song10xx.xxx) (Song of the Lark will not be posted until Nov 30.) INDEX OF PROJECT GUTENBERG ETEXTS (1991 and 1992) ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (not from 10 AM to […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter 1992-11-01

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*This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for October 31, 1992* Our Goal, To Give Away One Trillion Etexts By December 31, 2001 *[10,000 titles to 100,000,000 people equals 1,000,000,000,000] If each book goes to 100 million people by the end of 2001 then we should be at about 3.5 billion with release of the following […]

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PG Newsletter 1992-02-20 – New/Old Project Gutenberg Etext

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Project Gutenberg announces Paradise Lost, in our second version of John Milton’s classic. Feb 1992 Paradise Lost (Raben) (plrabn10.txt) This is the oldest etext known to the project, as the original etext from which we worked was 1964- 1965, prepared by Joseph Raben. (More information in the etext.) Books currently available on mrcnext or via […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter 1991-12-16 – Non-network Gutenberg Newsletter

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Special Non-Network Edition of the Project Gutenberg Newsletter Our #1 goal: give away one trillion etexts by the end of 2001, by giving ten thousand etexts to one hundred million people. #2: To make these etexts universally usable on virtually every combination of computers and programs. (Plain Ascii etext such as you are reading now […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter 1990-10-26

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Alice is now on the MRCNEXT@UIUC.CSO.EDU machine and can be downloaded via FTP at no charge, though the Duncan Reseach copyright is included, in a copyleft spinoff. When you log in (you can use this above BITNET address, or 128.174.73.105, if your location and programming prefer an address of that nature) you should then be […]

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PG Newsletter 1990-05-11 – Information about Project Gutenberg

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The following is posted in response to the flood of inquiries we have had recently from members of various listservers which directly or indirectly carry messages concerning Project Gutenberg. My apologies to those whose names appear on more than one of these lists as you receive two copies. *************** The purpose of Project Gutenberg is […]

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PG Newsletter 1989-12-21 – Introduction to Project Gutenberg

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A ONE SCREEN INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT GUTENBERG Project Gutenberg believes that the biggest impact of an age of computers will be mass storage/retrieval of information in an home environment which will allow quick and accurate access to a world of ever increasing information. Already, with 360K floppy disks, anyone can put the compete works of […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter 1989-12-10 – Machine Readable Texts Breakfast at ALA Midwinter

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Here is the announcement of Project Gutenberg first national public exposure, at the Chicago Mid-Winter ALA Meeting, 1990: Date: Sun, 10 Dec 89 11:24:26 CST From: “Michael S. Hart” Subject: Machine Readable Texts Breakfast at ALA Midwinter The Project Gutenberg breakfast has been scheduled for 8:00 to 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, January 6th at the […]

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