World eBook Fair 2007: Free Access to over 780,000 Full Text Books Begins in One Month

This is the second annual World eBook Fair.

From the announcement:

These are all full text editions that are yours to keep once their files have been downloaded to your computer, enough titles to fill 25 average public libraries.

The Second World eBook fair includes the entire ~100,000 eBook set from Project Gutenberg’s various collections as well as a ~400,000 set of collections from The World eBook Library, all of which will be available free of charge.

and

~100,000 eBooks from The Internet Archive
+ 87,000 downloadable in progress eBooks

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