Re: Press Release: 2 Months To 1/3 Million eBooks
- From: Michael Ciesielski <ciesiels@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Press Release: 2 Months To 1/3 Million eBooks
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 01:15:22 +1000
Michael Hart, on 04/05/2006 00:20, wrote:
> 1/3 of a million books, or 10 times the number found
> in the average public library, will be available for
> free downloading via the Internet and World Wide Web
> beginning July 4, as Project Gutenberg and the World
> eBook Library act on their dreams of increased world
> literacy and education.
Is there an explanation of the maths which produced the
1/3 million figure available? The worldebooksfair site
suggests that from one source, 65,000 photographs are
each considered separate ebooks. Have ebooks which are
duplicated in several collections been removed from the
count?
> 1/3 Million eBooks Free from July 4 Through August 4
Will the ebooks still be Free on August 5th?
Michael