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15 Facts About Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg is named after Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced book printing with movable type in Europe.
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Project Gutenberg used a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence in his backpack, and this became the first Project Gutenberg e-text.
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Project Gutenberg named the project for Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable type printing press revolution.
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Michael Hart said in 2004, "The mission of Project Gutenberg is simple: 'To encourage the creation and distribution of ebooks'".
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