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Monday, July 27, 2009  



World eBook Fair
http://www.worldebookfair.org/

Project Gutenberg has been joined by The World Public Library and Digital Pulp Publishing, Internet Archive, along with Jim Baen [R.I.P.], in the creation of The World eBook Fair which hopes to bring you, and everyone else, a downloadable collection of 1/2 million eBooks in October, in honor of, what else, International Book Fair Month. Most of these eBooks are to be given away free of charge, but as requested by readers of The First World eBook Fair, more modern, and thus commercial, eBooks are to be a feature of The Second World eBook Fair. [After October 15]. Just two years ago The First World eBook Fairs came on the scene with about 1/3 million books and doubled to 2/3 million in 2008, and over a a million and a quarter presented last year. Now over two million. Created by contributions from 100+ eLibraries around the world, the largest collections are:

100,000 from Project Gutenberg
500,000 from The World Public Library
1,385,000 from The Internet Archive
250,000 from eBooks About Everything
17,000 from IMSLP's Music eLibrary
2,252,000 Grand Total

Since they are adding over a thousand books each business day, they should have little trouble in reaching their goal of 2 1/2 million by July 4-- once again doubling the total of the eBooks they are presenting to the general public. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

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