Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF DIGITIZING EBOOKS

By Gregory B. Newby

CEO Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation

ABSTRACT

(eBooks). This document offers elements of the story of Project surrounding procedures for making them as widely available as possible. and accessible.

HISTORICAL ROOTS

The first Project Gutenberg eBook was created on July 4, 1971. Michael S...