Early Development of Project Gutenberg c.1970-2000

Project Gutenberg is lauded as one of the earliest digitisation initiatives, a mythology that Michael Hart, its founder perpetuated through to his death in 2011. In this Element, the author re-examines the extant historical evidence to challenge some of Hart''s bolder claims and resituates the significance of Project Gutenberg in relation to broader trends in online document delivery and digitisat...