788,000 Total eBook Files Will Be Listed
Just a brief note to remind you the Second Annual World ebook Fair will be starting three months from today on July 4, 2007.
We are hoping to surpass the
schedule announced 10 months ago with the First World eBook Fair and to
present 2/3 million free eBooks, and over 100,000 additional commercial
eBooks.
The original schedule:
1/3 Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2006 Done!!!
1/2 Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2007 Ahead of Schedule!!! 2007
2/3 Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2008 Ahead of Schedule!!! 2007
3/4 Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2009 Coming the year after.
ONE Million Free eBooks on July 4, 2010 Millennium Plus 1 Decade.
Note: As you can see, we are already well ahead of this schedule.
New!!!
100,000 Commericial eBooks from Sponsors of the World eBook Fair
In addition we are hoping to
present over 100,000 commercial eBook titles from our friends at
Digital Pulp Publishing, & eBooks About Everything and other fine
commercial eBook sources. . .for a grand total
of nearly 3/4 million eBooks.
The commercial eBooks are from
Digital Pulp Publishing, presenting a wide and eclectic array bringing
independent access to the broad open market through the efforts of many
publishers; and also great numbers of additional books, perhaps
totalling ~100,000 by July 4, from eBooks About Everything.
Contact information is below.
This collection of 3/4 million
electronic books is of high quality and not to be confused with the
unproofread collection of eBooks a
person finds at locations such
as Google where not only are eBooks usually only available as snippets
and graphics files, but are notalways available from day to day.
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
Commerical eBook Discount and/or Coupons
As always special coupons will
be available, or discounts on great numbers of commercial eBooks for
World eBook Fair visitors for the period July 4 through August 4.
http://worldebookfair.com
will bring you to the home
page, where all the various collections will be listed with one click
links. You can test this site now--
and even download books in advance with a guest signon, just ask.
If you have any questions, or
seek further materials, an interview or would like to confirm the
schedule or contents, please contact:
Contacts:
Michael S. Hart
Founder, Project Gutenberg
405 W. Elm, Urbana, IL 61801
hart@pglaf.org,hart@pobox.com
US Phone 217-344-6623
Gregory B. Newby
CEO, Project Gutenberg
U of Alaska, Fairbanks
gbnewby@pglaf.org
US Phone 907-450-8663
http://www.gutenberg.org
John Guagliardo
Founder, World Public Library
Honolulu, Hawaii
john@gutenberg.cc
US Phone 808-292-2068
http://www.worldpubliclibrary.org