Project Gutenberg Begins Year 40
Last week marked the beginning of Project Gutenberg’s 40th year. The first producer of free eBooks, the visionary Project Gutenberg was started in 1971 by Michael Hart (pictured) and slowly but steadily produced–often by hand-typing–eBook versions of public domain titles. In 2009, the project produced its 35,000th eBook. Here’s more from the Project Gutenberg blog:
“In 2009 we saw our 35,000th internally produced eBook go out, and our 25,000 in English, our 1,500th in French, 600th in German and 500th in Finnish.
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