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The Project Gutenberg Web Pages

By Project Gutenberg

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

Explore a time capsule of the early internet, revealing the mission to make literature accessible to all through free electronic books.

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1996-06-01
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Summary

"The Project Gutenberg Web Pages" by Anonymous is a document from the 1990s that shows what the Project Gutenberg website looked like back then. It is for people who want to know about giving away free digital books. It explains the rules and ideas behind Project Gutenberg, like respecting copyright laws. The main point is about making books free online and how the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation works. It talks about why Project Gutenberg wants to give everyone free books that are not protected by copyright. It also tells people how they can share these books without breaking the law and how to protect the Project Gutenberg name. Readers can learn what the foundation does, how digital books are made, and how they can help the project. The book is both a guide for users and an advertisement for the effort to make books available to everyone online.

About the Author

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. As of 13 February 2024, Project Gutenberg had reached 70,000 items in its collection of free eBooks.

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