7.8 PROJECT GUTENBERG -- ELECTRONIC BOOKS

Project Gutenberg, coordinated by Michael Hart, has a fairly ambitious 
goal: to make more than 10,000 books and other documents available 
electronically by the year 2001.  In 1993, the project uploaded an 
average of four books a month to its ftp sites; in 1994, they hope to 
double the pace. 

Begun in 1971, the project already maintains a "library" of hundreds of 
books and stories, from Aesop's Fables to "Through the Looking Glass" 
available for the taking.  It also has a growing number of current-
affairs documents, such as the CIA's annual "World Factbook" almanac. 

Besides nptn.org, Project Gutenberg texts can be retrieved from 
mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu in the etext directory.