Gregory B. Newby’s Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks describes the practices of Project Gutenberg, the pioneering free e-book library. Newby, long associated with the project, explains how texts are selected, prepared, and distributed.
The book offers an authoritative insider’s account of the methods behind one of the most important digitization efforts in publishing history. It is a valuable record of how public-domain books reach readers. This edition is a clean, public-domain text prepared for comfortable reading. The EPUB has been carefully formatted for modern e-readers and tablets. Download the free EPUB of this account of Project Gutenberg’s practices.