Italy blocks Project Gutenberg: techdirt.com/articles/20200…

If you're in Italy, blocked from using project Gutenberg, you may be interested to know that the books are also on GitHub: gitenberg.org

Interesting use of free ebooks: bilinual is making ebooks with multilingual annotations!

60,000 Ebooks on a Flash Drive? - mailchi.mp/ebookfoundatio…

60,000 ebooks on a Flash Drive? mailchi.mp/ebookfoundatio…

27/ I think my new favorite GitHub account belongs to Free Ebook Foundation, run by Eric Hellman et al. They have over a 100 science books and 2,000 coding/math books that are free!

Our "Free-Programming-Books" repo on GitHub received 1,314 Hacktoberfest PRs and merged 559 (39%) of them (merges from 304 individuals)! Thank you to DigitalOcean, Intel, DEV Community and 304 amazing open-source enthusiasts!

338 developers helped us curate free-programming-books - mailchi.mp/ebookfoundatio…

Top repositories based on the number of ⭐s on GitHub in 2020! Big Congrats to the makers & everyone who contributed! 🎉 🌟labuladong 🌟John Washam 🌟Kamran Ahmed 🌟Donne Martin 🌟Free Ebook Foundation / Eric Hellman See more stats from this year: bit.ly/2WlLG8M

A report from Eric Hellman of Free Ebook Foundation about their 2020: - 3,770 links to free books, 1,254 free courses - books in 35 spoken languages & courses in 20 - their repo on GitHub has 170,459 stars, 4th of all repos on Github & up 26% from 2019 👏👏👏 github.com/EbookFoundatio…

Great list! (Ours would reverse the order, of course.)

Our president has some posts on OA for backlist books: Fund the All-Stars, not the Discount Rack! go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2021/02/open-a… go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2021/02/open-a…

The Ebook Turns 50; FEF Monographs Fund. blog.unglue.it/2021/07/02/the… via WordPress.com

On its 50th birthday, a bit about the political origins of the Ebook. go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-eb…

2 days left, and it's reached 50% of its goal!

Campaign success, with help from our Monographs Fund. Not too late to pitch in! unglue.it/about/funds/#m…

100,000 open access ebooks! blog.unglue.it/2022/01/05/100… #openaccess

67,000 Public Domain, 100,000 OA Ebooks, 200,000 Stars, 1 Mission - mailchi.mp/ebookfoundatio…

Introducing Free-Programming-Ebooks SEARCH - mailchi.mp/ebookfoundatio…

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