Project Gutenberg Progresses: "In 1971, Michael Hart typed the text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence into a mainframe computer at the University of Illinois, creating the first electronic book. This was the start of Project Gutenberg (PG), an ambitious effort to develop a free public library of 10,000 public-domain e-books. Progress was slow at first, but things have definitely picked up in recent years. In the first 11 weeks of 2004, Project Gutenberg added 313 new e-books. It took from 1971 to 1997 to produce the first 313 e-books--that's 11 weeks compared to about 26 years.
In October 2003, Project Gutenberg added the 10,000th e-book to its collection. Hart then boldly announced a new goal: 'We want to grow the collection to 1 million free e-books and distribute them to 1 billion people for a total of 1 quadrillion e-books to be given away by the end of the year 2015.'" Visit Infotoday to read the rest of the article
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
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