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Type of site | Digital library |
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| Available in | English |
| URL | gutenberg.net.au |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 2001 |
| Current status | Online |
Project Gutenberg Australia, abbreviated asPGA, is anInternet site which was founded in 2001 by Colin Choat. It is a sister site ofProject Gutenberg, though there is no formal relationship between the two organizations. The site hosts freeebooks ore-texts which are in thepublic domain inAustralia. Volunteers have prepared and submitted the ebooks.
To complement the extensive amount of original source material available in the form of ebooks, a great deal of information about thehistory and theexploration of Australia is provided, together with a "Library of Australiana", a list of ebooks available about Australia or written by Australians.
Because of differences betweenAustralian andUnited States (where Project Gutenberg is based)copyright law, Project Gutenberg Australia contains many works not available in Project Gutenberg, including works byMargaret Mitchell,George Orwell,Ayn Rand,H. P. Lovecraft,Edgar Wallace,S. S. Van Dine andDylan Thomas.
With the introduction of theU.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement, works of authors who died after 31 December 1954 will now not enter the public domain in Australia until at least 1 January 2026. However, all such works which were already public domain under Australian law as of the end of 2004 remain in the public domain, and thus continue to be hosted at Project Gutenberg of Australia.[1]
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