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Online eBook Fair Provides 3/4 Million eBooks

Michael Hart - 7/1/2007

Urbana, Illinois and Honolulu, Hawaii: Free access to over 750,000 free online eBooks starts on July 4, for a month long World eBook Fair. Leading providers of electronic books have provided free access to materials on every possible topic. The World eBook Fair is a showcase for the range and importance of eBooks for enjoyment, education, research and literacy.

Visit www.worldebookfair.com for one month starting Wednesday, July 4 to search, browse and download eBooks. Something for every taste and reading level is available, in dozens of languages and formats.

Over 100 separate eBook collections are available at one online address, www.worldebookfair.com. Collections cover a vast range, including fiction, historical documents, national literatures, children's literature, medicine and reference. In addition to English, eBooks appear in include Hungarian, French, Japanese, Dutch, and many other languages.

No special eBook readers, software or devices are required to enjoy these eBooks. A Web browser and PDF viewer is all that is required. The collections are presented without hindrance for online viewing, printing, and non-commercial redistribution. Everyone is invited to find eBooks of interest, share them with friends, and save them for future use.

Commercial eBook providers have opened their collections for free access through the World eBook Fair, yielding over 100,000 titles. For example, Digital Pulp Publishing is presenting a wide and eclectic array of titles from contemporary authors. DPP brings independent access to the broad open market through the efforts of many publishers. Another commercial partner, eBooks About Everything, offers a broad selection of enjoyable titles for all ages.

These are all full text editions that are yours to download, read and keep. With 750,000 titles to select from, more eBooks are available than are found in 25 average public libraries.

This year's Second Annual World eBook Fair includes the entire 100,000 title set from Project Gutenberg's various collections, as well as a further 400,000 eBooks The World eBook Library, all of which will be available free of charge for a full month. Another partner is The Internet Archive, bringing 100,000 titles, plus a further 87,000 titles in progress.

Special coupons will be available, as well as discounts on great numbers of commercial eBooks for World eBook Fair visitors for the period July 4 through August 4.

Readers from around the world are invited to visit www.worldebookfair.com starting July 4. The main page lists all the various collections. The site is available now, and advance guest previews for media inquiries and other interested parties are provided upon request.


More information about the World eBook Library:

The World eBook Library operates the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center and the World eBook Fair. The PGCC is designed for the collection and redistribution of eBooks that are public domain under the United States copyright laws. PGCC houses collection of collections of eBooks - rather than on the creation of eBooks, or the collection of eBooks one eBook at a time. We find various collections and ask if these collections would benefit from inclusion in Project Gutenberg, and exposure from our sites around the world. www.worldlibrary.net


More information about Project Gutenberg:

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBook and related technologies today. The Project Gutenberg mission is to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. www.gutenberg.org