On July 4, The World eBook Fair started with a bang, landing over one million hits resulting in the download of 1/4 million eBooks free of charge, with at least as many going out the second day.
As of tonight, I bet 500,000 books will have been downloaded. From Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg:
“Latest server figures now indicate about 400,000 eBooks given away in the last 20-21 hours on Day Three of The World eBook Fair. So, we might hit some 1/2 million eBooks given away as we shift to faster servers and wires from the ones we started out with. Such a shift takes about three days to be fully completed on DNS servers, etc. … Thus the numbers of eBooks downloaded should increase.”
For those of you new to Project Gutenberg, it 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 eBooks and related technologies today.”
Visit The World eBook Fair and give yourself eBooks in 2006!
