I just heard that the WikiReader just got an update. Openmoko’s WikiReader, a popular palm-sized touchscreen electronic encyclopedia which contains more than 3 million English language Wikipedia articles, now can be turned into the world’s most portable eReader able to display the contents of Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library. Its more than 33,000 digital [...]
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WikiReader gets Project Gutenberg catalog in new update
December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Project Gutenberg – Pirate?
November 29th, 2010 · 13 Comments · piracy
Now this is an interesting story for a Monday morning. The SF author Greg Bear is in the middle of a wrangle with Project Gutenberg (PG) over whether some of his stories are in the public domain. He says no, PG say yes. This story hinges on SF stories originally published in magazines in the [...]
Gutenberg eReader Android app launched
September 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · press release
I actually found the press release late last night, but I held it because I’m not sure if it’s an official Project Gutenberg app. The press release tries to sound like it is, but PG have never charged for access before. (This app costs $3.99.) Also, none of the big names with PG are quoted [...]
OverDrive add Gutenberg, other 3rd party sources to their library platform
August 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments · digital library
From the Overdrive blog: On Friday, Boston Public Library became the first OverDrive library partner to add more than 15,000 public domain eBooks from Project Gutenberg to its ‘Virtual Branch’ website—at no cost to the library. This featured collection, currently in beta, enables users to discover and download thousands of DRM-free EPUB eBooks without holds, waitlists, or [...]
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Project Gutenberg launch mobile site
July 24th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the Project Gutenberg Newsletter: Help create the “http://m.gutenberg.org” web pages!!! We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, cellphones and PDA devices, and to do our web pages to the same degree. Let us know if you have any of these and can test them, [...]
The iBookstore isn’t a competitor for the Kindle
May 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Apple, opinion
Ben Lorica just posted an update to last week’s post about the iBookstore. He doesn’t actually say how many titles are there, but he does point out that Project Gutenberg makes up a third of the iBookstore. That is a damning statistic once you’ve put it into the proper perspective.
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Feedbooks, Project Gutenberg have more downloads than iBookstore
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Apple, ebookstore news
So Apple trumpeted the 1.5m downloads in a press release this morning. I’m sure that seems like a huge number, but let’s put it in perspective. Hadrien Gardeur of Feedbooks tweeted this morning: Apple distributed 1,5 million ebooks in April. Feedbooks distributed 2,6 million ebooks in the same period. Then I went looking for more [...]
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