Friends: People in developing countries - academics, students, general publioc - should take advantage of all these books available at no cost if only one has access to the Internet. Arun

From Peter Suber's blog

OA books at the Second Annual World eBook Fair The Second Annual World eBook Fair will start on July 4, 2007. The plan is to make available over 680,000 OA ebooks. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) From the announcement: ...These are all full text editions that are yours to keep once their files have been downloaded to your computer, enough titles to fill 25 average public libraries. The Second World eBook fair includes the entire ~100,000 eBook set from Project Gutenberg's various collections as well as a ~400,000 set of collections from The World eBook Library, all of which will be available free of charge. and ~100,000 eBooks from The Internet Archive + 87,000 downloadable in progress eBooks... Posted by Peter Suber at 6/04/2007 10:20:00 AM. ______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail now has unlimited storage, which means you can have spam control and more space for those important e-mails. http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.