http://www.pg-news.org The News Portal for Gutenberg.org Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:13:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During October Project Gutenberg Canada published a total of 13 eBooks bringing their total to 190 eBooks, which by the way, took Michael Hart's Project Gutenberg twenty-three years to achieve! LANGUAGES: 7 titles in English 5 in French 1 in German (the first title in that language!) GENRES 4 history books and monographs 3 novels 3 books for ... http://www.pg-news.org/20081111/pg-canada-newsletter-for-october-2008/ With the introduction of the Stanza eBook reading application the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch have become major platforms on which to read eBooks. Since Stanza was released there have been several other eBook readers released for the iPod Touch allowing eBooks in many different file formats (including the ePub ... http://www.pg-news.org/20081031/apple-iphone-touch-stanza-and-project-gutenberg/ I had been reading some very interesting things about the BeBook eBook Reader, so when it arrived in the mail, I was not disappointed. On the surface this reader from Endless Ideas BV is pretty much the same as any other. However, once you start to get a little more ... http://www.pg-news.org/20081005/bebook-ebook-reader/ Project Gutenberg founder, Michael Hart, has now sent out the latest PG newsletter. We are just about to reach a new milestone; We are rapidly approaching 30,000 eBooks in the originating Project Gutenberg collections...we should pass 30,000 before the end of the year. It's interesting to note that eBooks in the Chinese ... http://www.pg-news.org/20080921/pg-newsletter-september-2008/ Mark from PG Canada sent through his monthly newsletter covering the activities for August 2008. With 12 new eBooks released in August (7 English, 5 French) the total number of PGCA titles now reaches 164! GENRES 6 of the books were novels 3 were children's books 2 were collections of short stories ... http://www.pg-news.org/20080921/pg-canada-newsletter-for-september-2008/ So here we are, just 10 days to go before SonyStyle.co.uk and Waterstones.com start shipping out those lovely new PRS-505's to all us UK residents! This is going to be the first E-Ink reader from one of the big boys to enter the UK market . The Sony Reader has ... http://www.pg-news.org/20080825/countdown-to-release-of-uk-prs505/ Michael Hart has sent out his monthly newsletter for August 2008 and during this last month there have been a few nice milestones from the various PG projects. First up, Greg Newby has provided us with an update on the top languages found at gutenberg.org. Currently there are over 100 languages ... http://www.pg-news.org/20080823/august-2008-statistics-update/ Editors Note: Marie's essay is available in English [Table] Sommaire Un pari depuis 1971 La méthode adoptée La correction partagée Des collections multilingues Domaine public versus copyright Du passé vers l’avenir Chronologie Statistiques Liens SOMMAIRE Août 1997: 1.000 livres Avril 2002: 5.000 livres Octobre 2003: 10.000 livres Janvier 2005: 15.000 livres Décembre 2006: 20.000 livres Avril 2008: 25.000 livres En juillet 1971, Michael Hart crée le Projet Gutenberg pour ... http://www.pg-news.org/20080818/pg-1971-2008-lebert-fr/ ECTACO are probably better know for their electronic hand held translators, but now they gone and released their very own reader; the jetBook eBook Reader. The jetBook does not use an E-Ink screen, however, this does give it an advantage over all the other eBook readers that are currently out there; ... http://www.pg-news.org/20080811/ectaco-jetbook-ebook-reader/ In Australia it is now 1st August 2008 and Project Gutenberg Australia is celebrating its seventh birthday! In August 2001 Project Gutenberg Australia posted their first book online, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell - they now have over 1600 titles available for download. Project Gutenbereg (U.S.) only posted their 1,600th title ... http://www.pg-news.org/20080731/pg-australia-is-seven-years-old/