Steven Cedrone
10-22-2003, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/16/1956204.shtml?tid=126&tid=188&tid=192&tid=95' target='_blank'>http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/...&tid=192&tid=95</a><br /><br /></div><a href="http://gutenberg.net/">Project Gutenberg</a> has just released their 10,000th eBook, exactly 18 months, to the week, after their 5,000th....<br /><br />Late last week, Project Gutenberg's founder, Micheal Hart, announced that the project has passed the milestone of 10,000 free eBooks available, with the publication of the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext06/magna01.txt">Magna Carta.</a><br /><br />All of the eBooks, except the Human Genome Project and the audio books (due to size limitations), and the Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks (due to copyright), will be available shortly on a single DVD.<br /><br />Project Gutenberg was founded in 1971, with the aim of "making information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search". In the 32 years since the project started, over 10,000 books, ranging from the Bible to school textbooks, and from the complete works of Shakespeare to the Declaration of Independence, have been made freely available to the public by Project Gutenberg.