Comments on: Interview with Michael Hart http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/interview-with-michael-hart/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:30:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Pastore http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/interview-with-michael-hart/comment-page-1/#comment-1148586 Michael Pastore Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:17:36 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31601#comment-1148586 More than twenty-five years before Brewster Kahle coined the guiding principle of his Internet Archive --- "Universal access to all knowledge," --- Michael Hart was putting this ideal into practice with his Project Gutenberg. Hart has worked diligently to promote ebooks and epublishing since 1971 -- almost 40 years dedicated to sharing the wealth of the world's best books. In September 2009, I worked with Michael, on the latest edition of my book about ebooks. Hart's expertise, generosity, and sense of humor made this collaboration a pure pleasure. Hart has been called "the inventor of ebooks", and "the grandfather of electronic publishing." The ebook landscape today is vastly more complex than the one four decades ago. Yet in many ways, Hart laid the groundwork for the success of epublishing today. Michael Pastore 50 Benefits of Ebooks More than twenty-five years before Brewster Kahle coined the guiding principle of his Internet Archive — “Universal access to all knowledge,” — Michael Hart was putting this ideal into practice with his Project Gutenberg. Hart has worked diligently to promote ebooks and epublishing since 1971 — almost 40 years dedicated to sharing the wealth of the world’s best books.

In September 2009, I worked with Michael, on the latest edition of my book about ebooks. Hart’s expertise, generosity, and sense of humor made this collaboration a pure pleasure.

Hart has been called “the inventor of ebooks”, and “the grandfather of electronic publishing.” The ebook landscape today is vastly more complex than the one four decades ago. Yet in many ways, Hart laid the groundwork for the success of epublishing today.

Michael Pastore
50 Benefits of Ebooks

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