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The early development of Project Gutenberg c.1970-2000
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ISBN: 9781108743181 1108743188 9781108785778 1108785778 1108803407 1108846769 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Project Gutenberg is lauded as one of the earliest digitisation initiatives, a mythology that Michael Hart, its founder perpetuated through to his death in 2011. In this Element, the author re-examines the extant historical evidence to challenge some of Hart's bolder claims and resituates the significance of Project Gutenberg in relation to broader trends in online document delivery and digitisation in the latter half of the twentieth century, especially in the World Wide Web's first decade (the 1990s). Through this re-appraisal, the author instead suggests that Hart's Project is significant as an example of what Millicent Weber has termed a “digital publishing collective” whereby a group of volunteers engage in producing content and that process is as meaningful as the final product. --Cambridge University Press


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Four shades of gray : the Amazon kindle platform
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ISBN: 9780262543507 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge (Massachusetts) : The MIT Press,

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"Four Shades of Gray analyses the Kindle's impact from a technological, bibliographical and social perspective to ask why Amazon succeeded when many previous ebook manufacturers had failed"--

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