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I've never written an obituary before in these pages. Happily, that's because the people who are driving the new wave of openness...

In my view, Project Gutenberg doesn't get the respect it deserves. After all, this effort to make the world's literature freely ava...

Every year, some of the top ebook companies and organisations come together to offer extremely large numbers of ebooks, absolutely free (mos...

To my shame, I only discovered the wonderful LibriVox recently. Now it's passed a milestone in its short history: Well, we did it. We ...

I wrote recently about the tragedy of losing the IMSLM music score commons. Well, it looks like Mr Digital Commons himself, Michael Hart ...

Here's Wikipedia's info about the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP): a project for the creation of a virtual librar...

Google Books is important : the Google Project has, however unintentionally, made not only conventional libraries themselves, but other proj...

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simpl...

Everybody knows about Project Gutenberg , which aims to provide texts of as many public domain books as possible. One freedom that is avail...

First cars , then trains , now planes. New Scientist is reporting that it is now possible to create almost an entire plane by "print...

I have been rather remiss in not pointing out that the World eBook Fair started last Tuesday. In celebration of the 35th anniversary of th...

Normally I wouldn't pay much attention to this story about producing mechanical components with industrial printers: the company builds...

Here are 5000 free Gutenberg texts converted into a format suitable for reading on your a mobile. (Via The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsle...

A few weeks ago I interviewed Michael Hart , founder of Project Gutenberg . As I wrote in the article that resulted, there are close simil...

Open content is an area that I follow quite closely. I've just finished the second of a series of articles for LWN.net that traces the ...

It seems appropriate that a book about digital libraries has migrated to an online version that is freely available. Digital Libraries - f...