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    Project Gutenberg (1971-2005)

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      Project Gutenberg (1971-2005) - Marie Lebert

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      Title: Project Gutenberg (1971-2005)

      Author: Marie Lebert

      Release Date: October 26, 2008 [EBook #27039]

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      PROJECT GUTENBERG (1971-2005)

      MARIE LEBERT

      NEF, University of Toronto, 2005

      Copyright © 2005 Marie Lebert

      Dated August 15, 2005, this long article (following a short version published in June 2004 [and copied at the end of this file]) is a paper for the third International Colloquium on ICT-enhanced French Studies: Dialogues across languages and cultures, October 2005, York University, Toronto, Canada. This article is dedicated to all Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders volunteers on the five continents, who offer us a free library of 16,000 high-quality eBooks, mainly classics of world literature, with a goal of one million eBooks in ten years.

      With many thanks to Russon Wooldridge, who kindly edited this long article. The original version is available on the NEF, University of Toronto: http://www.etudes-francaises.net/dossiers/gutenberg_eng.htm

      The French version is: Le Projet Gutenberg (1971-2005). The updated

      English version is: Project Gutenberg (1971-2008).

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