2.5 Million books available for free download
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 07 July 2009, 21:34 IST   |    1 Comments
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2.5 Million books available for free download
New Delhi: Starting from Saturday, the fourth eBook fair sponsored by some e-libraries including Project Gutenberg, The World Public Library and Internet Archive, will enable the users to download around 2.5 million books for free. The links to the collections will be available on worldebookfair.com. Roberto Gorrieri of, World Public Library, informed that one million downloads was the average per day in the first three 'fairs', having a significant section of the traffic from India. "My guess would be about 1/4 of all downloads were done from there. The most popular titles were technology related titles," he added. Humanities students are also among the techies and casual readers downloading, they have become intimately familiar with the world of e-texts. Recently, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed plans to push for the use of eBooks in schools. Some of the available online books are Sappho's poetry, prescribed in MA English course, Kesari Mohan Ganguly's translation of Karnaparva and Alberti's on Painting. "E-texts are much easier to access and are far cleaner than photocopies," said Sakshi Chopra, who completed her MA in 2008. Later, for BEd, she used e-texts of John Dewey's Democracy and Education and Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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