Johannes Gutenberg developed his printing press around 1450. No one wants to waste time on a project that's actually losing money! At least a rough correlation between the time/resources put into a project and the results of the project will help...
Project Gutenberg is probably the best known long-standing site already doing this, and you can see some of the top titles here, similar to what I hope Google will do in the future. That's also a handy way to see if Google offers some of the...
This summer Project Gutenberg celebrates its 35th anniversary. From The SEW Blog. Search Engine Strategies Latino, Miami, Florida - Day One Day one of the first ever Search Engine Strategies Latino edition is pretty much complete.
This summer Project Gutenberg celebrates its 35th anniversary. Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web. If you're not familiar with our blog, click on any of the links below...
This summer Project Gutenberg celebrates its 35th anniversary. Another week and another set of specialty databases and "research" news for your review. These items have been posted to ResourceShelf during the past week or so.
A great directory of public domain books (from a variety of sources including Google, Project Gutenberg, and many others) is available here. For example, Project Gutenberg began in 1971. Via Searchblog, I read the excerpts from a speech by the...
Book Digitization: Project Gutenberg Founder Interviewed - Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971 digitizing and copying public domain books. SES NY Coming! Top Stories + More From The Search Engine Watch Blog + Daily SearchCast: Search News...
In this article, I made sure to mention other digitization projects like Project Gutenberg that have been around since 1971. Tomorrow, the Google Library Project will be one year old. Here's a link to our first SearchDay article about the Google...
Book Digitization: Project Gutenberg Founder Interviewed. Newsknife compiles its ratings by looking at a sample of 228,445 individual site listings at Google News by 3,395 sites for 1,311 news items since December 2004.
Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971 digitizing and copying public domain books. Project Gutenberg one effort that we've mentioned from the very first day of Google's Library Project. That's why I was a bit disappointed to read when Hart...
This service, which catalogs books in the public domain (including Project Gutenberg materials) has been edited by John Mark Ockerbloom since 1993. NetLibrary and The Online Books Page are two excellent services for searching for and reading online...
I once again want to mention and incredible browsable and searchable database, The Online Books Page, of books in the public domain (including Project Gutenberg materials) that's been edited by John Mark Ockerbloom since 1993.
The long-standing Project Gutenberg The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library today, a project that's also just received its first $3 million in funding from Google.
Heck, Project Gutenberg has been around since 1973. It organizes and lists thousands of books (including Gutenberg content and now some Google Print content) from many digitization projects. Google Print is now publishing the full-text of...
Of course, Project Gutenberg has been digitizing books since 1973. The Internet Archive will handle all of the scanning for the entire project. The OCA project differs from other digitization projects in that the database of scanned material will...
Project Gutenberg Founder on Digitization, ebooks and the OCA Launch Jefferson Graham's USA Today article, Google Print project inspires fans, fears, provides a first class and well-written overview that also mentions the new Yahoo/Internet Archive...
Project Gutenberg Founder on Digitization, ebooks and the OCA Launch Online Debate Over Google Scanning Project Underway Google Plans to Partner With Sun - Google and Sun Microsystems will announce a collaboration project during a press conference...
Project Gutenberg Founder on Digitization, ebooks and the OCA Launch. Google is famous for touting the simplicity of its AdWords program. All that's needed is five minutes and a credit card," Google claims on its corporate information web page.
Heck, Project Gutenberg was around before Larry and Sergey were even born. According to an EC announcement on Friday, the aim of the project is to digitize and preserve records of Europe's heritage--including books, film fragments, photographs...
Project Gutenberg, this book digitization project that creates "ebooks" has been going strong for almost 35 years (that's like a millennium in online info time). Needless to say, Project Gutenberg's founder, Michael Hart, is a pioneer, if not THE...
