The World eBook Fair, Free Access to Over 350,000 PDF eBooks
Professional Reading Shelf eBooks Coming this Summer: Free Access to Thousands of eBooks via The World eBook Fair
As Project Gutenberg celebrates its 35th anniversary this summer (yes, e-books are hardly a new idea and congrats to Gutenberg founder, Michael Hart) The World eBook Fair will work to promote eBooks around the globe. From the World eBook Fair site, "July 4th to August 4, 2006, marks a month-long celebration of the 35th anniversary of the first step taken towards today's eBooks. 35 years ago the United States Declaration of Independence was a first example of hundreds of thousands of eBooks downloadable on the Internet today in a variety of languages totalling over 100. The World eBook Fair welcomes you to absolutely free access to a variety of eBooks unparalleled by any other source. 1/3 million eBooks await you, all free of charge [as PDF files] for the month of July...This event is brought to you by the oldest and largest free eBook source on the Internet, Project Gutenberg, with the assistance of The World eBook Library, the providers of the largest collection, and a number of other eBook efforts around the world. The World eBook Library normally charges $8.95 per year for their online collection, and allows unlimited permanent downloading. During The World eBook Fair all these books are available free of charge through a gateway at http://www.gutenberg.org See Also: Learn More/Subscribe to The World eBook Library
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