E-Books: Project Gutenberg (PG) Founder Michael Hart with Some New PG Statsitics
Some people not only have vision but are able to keep the vision alive and growing. It was 40 years ago when Michael Hart began Project Gutenberg. It's a great reminder for some and history for others that book digitization did not begin in that past several years.
The latest Project Gutenberg Grand Total figures have just passed 37,500 titles this past month and will have 40,000 eBooks during our 40th year celebration, 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn’t sound like much, but we are on track right now to do 5,000 this year.
We are currently giving away about 100,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org. About 3 million eBooks per month or 36 million per year.
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Think for just a moment about how much a terabyte would cost you back in the year 2000, how much power it took, and how hard it would be to fill it up.
Google wouldn’t even announce its “invention” of eBooks for about 5 more years, Project Gutenberg wouldn’t have 10,000 titles for another 2 3/4 years, so just think of the changes we have in store by 2020, the next decade.
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