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Colleagues/<BR> <BR>Speaking Of eBooks >>> World eBook Fair > 2010 <BR> <BR>Download Your Selections from (3,500,000+ PDF eBooks) >Three Million eBooks Titles.<BR> <BR>/Gerry <BR> <BR>A Message From Michael Hart:<BR> <BR>Three and a half (3.5) Million Free eBooks at World eBook Fair <BR> <BR>Welcome to the Fifth Annual World eBook Fair where we hope you will enjoy at least a few of the books that are presented here, now in the millions.<BR> <BR>Brief History of the World eBook Fair: <BR> <BR>Just a few 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 million and a quarter the following year.<BR> <BR>This year there are over Three million eBooks.<BR> <BR>The World eBook Fair's mammoth amount of books were created by contributions from 100+ eLibraries and thousands of volunteers from around the world. <BR> <BR>This year we have added over a million new free eBooks already, and plan to add 50,000 more by the end of The world eBook Fair, which runs from July 4 to August 4. <BR> <BR>The collections include light and heavy reading materials, more reference books, scientific items, etc., and about 50,000 music entries in addition to the 12,000 that debuted last year.<BR> <BR>Please note that The Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg are also presenting a number of items in other media; music, movies and artwork, even dance choreography, are included.<BR> <BR>At midnight Central Daylight Time July, 4 2010 we estimate that the approximate numbers of titles will be: <BR> <BR>2,324,842 from The Internet Archive <BR>750,000 from World Public Library <BR>400,000 from Wattpad <BR>112,000 from Project Gutenberg <BR>62,000 from International Music Score Library Project <BR><BR>>>> 3,648,842 Grand Total <<< <BR> <BR>More eBooks To More People Via Cell phone Reads <BR> <BR>In addition to presenting twice as many books, we are also trying to reach 10x as much of the population by including a number of programs a person can use to read these eBooks on phones, MP3 players, PDA's, iPods, etc. <BR>[more]<BR> <BR>>>> WeBF Sponsors >>><BR> <BR>Project Gutenberg , World Public Library , Baen Books , Internet Archive , MobileBooks , MyeBook , Wattpad <BR> <BR>Access To Source and Collections and Search Available At<BR> <BR>[ <A href="http://bit.ly/bNeHRF">http://bit.ly/bNeHRF</A> ]<BR> <BR> !!! Thanks To Mike Cook / GutenberyNews / For The Tweet !!!<BR> <BR>/Gerry <BR> <BR>Gerry McKiernan<BR>Associate Professor<BR>Science and Technology Librarian<BR>Iowa State University Library<BR>Ames IA 50011<BR> <BR>Follow Me On Twitter > <A href="http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs">http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs</A><BR> <BR>>>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>> <br /><hr />Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2' target='_new'>See how.</a></body>
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