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Sunday, 8th July 2007

eBooks: World eBook Fair Underway: Nearly 3/4 of a Million Books Available Online, Most at No Charge

World eBook Fair 2007 Underway: Nearly 3/4 of a Million Books Available Online, Overwhelming Majority of Titles are Free to Access and Download

We've been posting news about the 2007 World eBook Fair (WEF), the 2nd annual fair, since it was first announced in January.

A quick reminder that the 2007 WEF is up and running with hundreds of thousands of full text books ready for users to download.

2007 World eBook Fair Fast Facts
++ 620,000 Free eBooks + ~110,000 Commercial eBooks

++ eBook Fair being led by Michael Hart (Founder of Project Gutenberg), Greg Newby, and John Guagliardo. Btw, who says book digitization is new? Project Gutenberg is celebrating its 36th birthday this summer.

++ Browse by Collection or Keyword Search

++ Most Books are PDF Files. Some are in Microsoft Reader format.

++ 1,000 eBooks for the One Laptop Per Child Computer as seen on "60 Minutes." These books were specially commissioned by One Laptop Per Child and created by the World Public Library for use at no charge. View the collection.

++ 220,000 eBooks from The Internet Archive (Open-Access Text Archive)
++++ See the Internet Archive Scanning Robot in Action (Video)
++++ A Profile of a Person Scanning Books (for the Open Content Alliance) at the University of Toronto

++ Commercial eBooks and Coupons Part of 2007
+++ 110,000 commercial eBook titles from Digital Pulp Publishing (See Coupon for Discounts)
+++ eBooks About Everything from eBooksAboutEverything.com (See Coupon for Discounts)

See Also: Download Books to Your Mobile Phone

See Also: Project Gutenberg Canada Launches

See Also: When the Book Fair is Over, Take a Look at The World Public Library. Very inexpensive and institutional memberships are available.

See Also: A Couple Small Collections Digitization Projects #1 and #2

See Also: International Children's Digitial Library
Thousands of free, full text books.


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