[inforoots] Project Gutenberg Turns 36

[Michael Hart]

July 4 will mark the 36th anniversary of the first Project Gutenberg entry,
The United States Declaration Of Independence.

As part of the celebration, Project Gutenberg will be a sponsor of:


The World eBook Fair


http://www.worldebookfair.com


from July 4 through August 4


2/3 million free eBooks will be available for free downloading, along with
over 110,000 commercial eBooks available at a World eBook Fair discount.


Here is a little press release I worked up a few days ago. . . .

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ONE MONTH to 3/4 Million eBooks in Online eBook Fair!!!


Second Annual World eBook Fair Starts July 4th


Latest Adddition:  1,000 eBooks for the One Laptop Per Child Computer
as seen on "60 Minutes" just two weeks ago.

These books were specially commissioned by One Laptop Per Child
and created by the World Public Library for use at no charge.



ONE MONTH to 2/3 Million Free eBooks + ~110,000 Commercial eBooks


Grand Total of 3/4 Million Total eBook Files Available


eBooks in over 100 Different Languages!


Created by Contributions from 150+ eLibraries Around the World



EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, June 4:  World eBook Fair Starts in ONE MONTH



http://www.worldebookfair.com



788,000 Total eBook Files Will Be Listed [over 3/4 million]



Last year 1,000 newspapers carried this story when 1/3 million eBooks
were offered free of charge at The First World eBook Fair.


This year there will be twice as many eBooks!!!


Last year The World eBook Fair gave away about 1 million eBooks a day
for 30 days between July 4 and August 4.


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Just a brief note to remind you the Second Annual World ebook Fair
will be starting three months from today on July 4, 2007.

We are hoping to surpass the schedule announced 10 months ago with
the First World eBook Fair and to present 2/3 million free eBooks,
and over 100,000 additional commercial eBooks.


The original schedule:

1/3 Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2006  Done!!!
1/2 Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2007  Ahead of Schedule!!! 2007
2/3 Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2008  Ahead of Schedule!!! 2007
3/4 Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2009  Coming the year after.
ONE Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2010  Millennium Plus 1 Decade.

Note:  As you can see, we are already well ahead of this schedule.


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New!!!


100,000 Commericial eBooks from Sponsors of the World eBook Fair


In addition we are hoping to present over 100,000 commercial eBook
titles from our friends at Digital Pulp Publishing, & eBooks About
Everything and other fine commercial eBook sources. . .for a grand total of 
nearly 3/4 million eBooks.

The commercial eBooks are from Digital Pulp Publishing, presenting
a wide and eclectic array bringing independent access to the broad
open market through the efforts of many publishers; and also great
numbers of additional books, perhaps totalling ~100,000 by July 4,
from eBooks About Everything.  Contact information is below.


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This collection of 3/4 million electronic books is of high quality
and not to be confused with the unproofread collection of eBooks a
person finds at locations such as Google where not only are eBooks
usually only available as snippets and graphics files, but are not
always available from day to day.

These are all full text editions that are yours to keep once their
files have been downloaded to your computer, enough titles to fill
25 average public libraries.

The Second World eBook fair includes the entire ~100,000 eBook set
from Project Gutenberg's various collections as well as a ~400,000
set of collections from The World eBook Library, all of which will
be available free of charge.

and

~100,000 eBooks from The Internet Archive
+ 87,000 downloadable in progress eBooks

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Commerical eBook Discount and/or Coupons

As always special coupons will be available, or discounts on great
numbers of commercial eBooks for World eBook Fair visitors for the
period July 4 through August 4.


http://worldebookfair.com


will bring you to the home page, where all the various collections
will be listed with one click links.  You can test this site now--
and even download books in advance with a guest signon, just ask.


If you have any questions, or seek further materials, an interview
or would like to confirm the schedule or contents, please contact:


Contacts:


Michael S. Hart
Founder, Project Gutenberg
405 W. Elm, Urbana, IL 61801
hart at pglaf.org,hart at pobox.com
US Phone 217-344-6623

Gregory B. Newby
CEO, Project Gutenberg
U of Alaska, Fairbanks
gbnewby at pglaf.org
US Phone 907-450-8663
http://www.gutenberg.org

John Guagliardo
Founder, World Public Library
Honolulu, Hawaii
john at gutenberg.cc
US Phone 808-292-2068
http://www.worldpubliclibrary.org

Project Gutenberg Hosts Over 100,000 Free eBooks


Catherine Hodge
Digital Pulp Publishing
hodge at digitalpulppublishing.com
US Phone 877-382-2100
http://digitalpulppublishing.com

Katrina Cardway
eBooks About Everything
katrina at ebooksabouteverything.com
US Phone 760-327-5100
http://ebooksabouteverything.com

The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/texts

The Internet Archive Hosts Over 100,000 unique finished eBooks.
In addition, there are ~87,000 downloadable eBooks in progress.