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Series:   Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

The Early Development of Project Gutenberg c.1970–2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2023

Simon Rowberry
Simon Rowberry
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University College London

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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.
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Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
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Print publication: 29 June 2023

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