Publishers Weekly, April 3rd, 2000
It is the granddaddy of all e-text archives; the Alexandria Library of the digital age. This year Project Gutenberg, a nonprofit, free electronic library of public-domain e-texts, will post its 2,500th book on the Internet. Project founder Michael Hart started this literary cyber-crusade in 1971--long before dot-corns or Jeffrey Bezos arrived on the scene. Hart, now 53, started Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.net) when he was a freshman at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, with access to a school mainframe computer that was "about the size of a small house." At the time, only a...
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