Open book repository Project Gutenberg has turned thousands of its titles into audiobooks practically overnight using synthetic speech, available now for download or streaming on multiple services.

Libraries based in Australia that use Overdrive’s content delivery system to fuel their ebook lending needs are in for a treat. Almost 23,000 titles are now available without a wait list or holds for ...

There is a new Android app that taps into Project Gutenberg, which is the largest archive of timeless classics and royalty free e-books. There are currently over 50,000 titles you can download to ...

15 of the most useful sources for books you may access and read on a Chromebook — and nine of them are free. A Chromebook and an internet connection can serve as a portal to millions of books.

German site Macerkopf.de [Google translation] and Italian site iPadevice [Google translation] report that Apple's iBookstore has begun to go live in a number of international countries. The news comes ...

Michael S. Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg passed away on 6 September. Hart, born in 1947, started Project Gutenberg in 1971 with the digitisation of the US Declaration of Independence, which ...