PG Canada Live
On Canada Day 2007 the new Project Gutenberg Canada went live! As one would expect the site multilingual in both English and French. To celebrate their opening they released a “baker’s dozen: thirteen...
View ArticleDP Canada now “Live”
For several months DP Canada was running in limited operation. On December 1, 2007 they went “live” again. DP Canada is dedicated to; Preserving Canadiana one page at a time Taking advanatge of...
View ArticlePG Canada posts their 100th eBook!
We’ve just posted the 100th eBook. It’s from 1904, seems not to have been reprinted, and is a very interesting account of Toronto’s legal establishment in the 19th century: it’s a rather spectacular...
View ArticlePG Canada Newsletter for September 2008
Mark from PG Canada sent through his monthly newsletter covering the activities for August 2008. With 12 new eBooks released in August (7 English, 5 French) the total number of PGCA titles now reaches...
View ArticlePG Canada Newsletter for October 2008
During October Project Gutenberg Canada published a total of 13 eBooks bringing their total to 190 eBooks, which by the way, took Michael Hart’s Project Gutenberg twenty-three years to achieve!...
View ArticleCopyright Revisions in Canada: Half a Loaf is Better Than None
Life+50 Duration Retained The basic Life+50 copyright term is safe in Canada, at least for now. There has been considerable pressure from foreign governments for Canada to extend its copyright term,...
View ArticleDistributed Proofreaders Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Project Gutenberg was launched by Michael Hart in July 1971 to create free electronic versions of literary works and disseminate them worldwide. The project got its first boost with the invention of...
View ArticleCanadians: Speak Out on Copyright
BIG NEWS! January’s a great time to send an email to Ottawa A unique opportunity for Canadians to defend their Public Domain (the deadline is January 31, 2011). The Opportunity Bill C-32, the bill to...
View ArticleThe Year of the eBook
Project Gutenberg, the granddaddy of all eBook libraries, announced today they have put number 40,000 of internally produced free eBooks online as of March 1st. This raises their grand total to...
View Article4th Anniversary of Project Gutenberg Canada
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the launch of Project Gutenberg Canada on July 1st 2007. We launched PG Canada to give Canadians full access to online versions of works in our public domain that...
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