http://www.pg-news.org News Portal of Gutenberg.org Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:39:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over 3 Million Items Feted At World eBook Fair Project Gutenberg, The World Public Library, The Internet Archive, and ebooksabouteverything are proud to sponsor the fourth edition of The World eBook Fair. July 4 - August 4 at http://www.worldebookfair.org eBook readers will have over 2 million to pick from: ~1.5 million from http://www.archive.org ~ .5 ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090702/2-5-million-ebooks-at-world-ebook-fair/ [Michel actually sent this as an email, which I am posting here with his permission. He probably won't reply to any comments directly but I will pass these along to him -- Ed.] Many people have argue with me for years on the subject of dedicated eBook reader devices, with any ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090601/why-the-inventor-of-ebooks-says-kindle-wont-go/ The first goal of Project Gutenberg was simply to reach totals of estimated audiences of 1.5% of the world population, or the total of 100 million people. With the advent of cell phone [mobile phone] access we are now setting our goal at 15% of the world population or 1 billion. Given ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090524/new-goal-set-for-project-gutenberg-one-billion-readers/ Just recently Project Gutenberg had a major crashe of their hardrives and subsequently lost some data and the newsletter lists were destroyed. They are currently using some ancient backups but most people should still be on the list. A number of poeple have been asking how to subscriber/unsubscribe from the Project ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090425/project-gutenberg-april-2009-newsletter/ In this months newsletter, Michael Hart announces some major projects from Project Gutenberg for this year. Web Pages designed by and for our Project Gutenberg readers Michael wants to make a push for web pages to be designed by, and for, people from various age groups and in any language. This can ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090327/project-gutenberg-march-2009-newsletter/ It was only a few months ago that Project Gutenberg announced an effort to make mobile editions of their titles available. This was of course big news, however, in my eyes the latest eBook format to be released by PG is even bigger. Project Guternberg now has most of their titles ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090320/epub-books-now-available-at-project-gutenberg/ As I'm sure everyone is aware, Obama was inaugurated as the new U.S. President this last week and we now have the Official Transcript of the Inaugural Presidential Address. This can be found in the Gutenberg archives at; www.gutenberg.org/etext/28001 This is now the 44th US Presidential Inaugural Speech and Project Gutenberg ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090124/project-gutenberg-january-2009-newsletter/ Monthly Newsletters All of the Project Gutenberg Newsletters sent via our mailing lists during 2009 will be archived here on pg-news.org for easy viewing. If you wish to subscribe to our monthly newsletters please read the newsletter information page. pgmonthly_2009_05_21 pgmonthly_2009_04_22 pgmonthly_2009_03_27 - PG Australia Newsletter pgmonthly_2009_03_21 pgmonthly_2009_02_28 - PG Australia Newsletter pgmonthly_2009_02_21 pgmonthly_2009_02_21 PG Canada pgmonthly_2009_01_31 - PG ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090124/pg-newsletter-archives-2009/ eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 It's been another fantastic year at Project Gutenberg with yet many more landmarks and milestones to add to an ever increasing list. The Complete "CIA World Factbooks" The latest project to be completed is "The CIA Factbook," complete, from 1990 to 2008. It ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090107/2008-gutenberg-year-in-review/ Monthly Newsletters pgmonthly_2009_01_07 - The Project Gutenberg Year In Review of January 7, 2009 pgmonthly_2009_01_07 - Project Gutenberg Canada Monthly Newsletter pgmonthly_2008_12_31 - Project Gutenberg Australia Monthly Newsletter pgmonthly_2008_12_25 - Error Correction of Project Gutenberg eBooks pgmonthly_2008_12_21 - Gutenberg Mobile / Cellphone eBooks Press Release. pgmonthly_2008_12_21 pgmonthly_2008-11-30 - Project Gutenberg Australia Monthly pgmonthly_2008_11_21 pgmonthly_2008_11_10 (PG Canada) pgmonthly_2008_10_31 (PG Australia) pgmonthly_2008_10_21 pgmonthly_2008_10_12 (PG ... http://www.pg-news.org/20090107/pg-newsletter-archives-2008/