I’ve just come across a video of a fly-by of the planet Saturn This video is being made from photographs taken by the Cassini space probe, and it’s entirely funded by contributions. It’s very shiny. Watch the video and then visit the site if you think it’s worth supporting.
Entries Tagged as 'project'
New project site launched for Augen The Book e-reader
December 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
I’ve just heard over at MobileRead that someone is starting a project with the goal of hacking Augen’s e-reader. His long term goal is to be able to use The Book as a limited netbook computer. This could be shiny, but only if Augen follows through and hands over the source code (as required by [...]
WikiReader gets Project Gutenberg catalog in new update
December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
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 [...]
Ebooks coming to Project Muse next year
September 10th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Project MUSE, a leading provider of humanities and social science periodical content for libraries, is very pleased to announce a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and product offerings. Beginning next year, e-book collections will be available for purchase alongside MUSE journal collections, with an integrated [...]
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, [...]
Infinity Publishing to launch 100 Tree Project
June 15th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
A press release came across my desk this morning. Infinity Publishing, a vanity press, has announced that they’ve partnered with Eco-Libris and they’re going to plant 100 trees. They’re also going to offer their authors the chance to contribute $50 towards planting more trees. It’s a nice gesture, but this is really just a PR [...]
Benq join Ubiquitous Town project
June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · benq
Digitimes is reporting that e-reader maker Benq has contributed a number of Wifi equipped nReader K60 e-book readers to patients at a rural area hospital as a part of a pilot program.Their contribution signals Benq’s participation in the Ubiquitous Town project. I know that’s not much in the way of news, but the interesting thing [...]
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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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