December 1st marks the official launch of Distributed Proofreaders Canada. DPC's mission is to produce ebooks for Project Gutenberg Canada. You can consider PGC as a library where people choose a book to read, and DPC as a publishing house which creates ebooks which are then distributed through PGC.
DPC is designed so that by proofreading as little as a page a day, you and other volunteers can produce new titles for the PGC catalogue. The DP site in the United States has produced thousands of excellent ebooks for PG US.
The forums and wiki at DPC allow you to get to know your fellow volunteers and collaborate on those projects that interest you most.
Please visit Distributed Proofreaders Canada and contribute to Gutenberg Canada's future!
We're happy to announce the launch of our new page of books for children in English and French! The initial version includes dozens of books, including such authors as Beatrix Potter ("The Tale of Peter Rabbit") and Hugh Lofting (the Doctor Dolittle books).
To celebrate the launch of the page, we are releasing new ebooks of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", a marvellous picture book by Wanda Gág. We are also starting what will be a series of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, beautifully translated from Danish by M. R. James, the famous mediaeval scholar and writer of ghost stories.
The children's page is only the beginning. We are planning special pages for science fiction/fantasy and for mystery/detective novels.
Welcome to Project Gutenberg Canada!
We're celebrating our launch by presenting a baker's dozen: thirteen ebooks specially created by our volunteers, including novels, short stories, biographies, and autobiographies, as well as a fine monograph on chess.
We are busy preparing new titles for the future: check our New Releases regularly to see what our latest titles are!
Our mission is to provide you with free ebooks of the finest Canadian and international literature. Our ambition is to provide dozens, then hundreds, and in the long run thousands of fine ebooks produced by our volunteers. (And you can be a volunteer! Creating ebooks is an interesting and pleasurable task that is not at all difficult.)
We would like to thank you for visiting our site! Please visit us often.
Also, we would like to thank our volunteers, whose contributions have made Project Gutenberg Canada possible.
Finally, we would like to thank the people of Canada and the Government of Canada. There is a strong political consensus in Canada in favour of a healthy and vigorous public domain. Successive Canadian governments of all parties have consistently protected and indeed strengthened the Canadian public domain: it connects all of us to our cultural heritage.
We can say without hesitation that every single one of the thirteen titles we are presenting is an outstanding work of art. And yet every one of these fine titles has been out of print for many years. Had Canada followed the unfortunate example of some other countries by extending the duration of copyrights, twenty more years would have passed before we could have presented these free ebooks, which, being out of print, cannot be purchased in a bookstore.
Thank you again for visiting us. See you again soon!