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Unglue.it launched in 2012 with a focus on sustainable funding models for freely-licensed ebooks. For the last two years, it has worked to improve the access and distribution of these books by building a database of over 1200 Creative Commons licensed ebooks. Unglue.it was been incubated by Gluejar, Inc., a privately held company founded by Eric Hellman

GITenberg began in 2013 when Seth Woodworth wanted to improve some ebooks from Project Gutenberg. He decided to load the ebooks onto GitHub, a version control and collaborative software development platform. There are now 50,000 public domain ebooks in GITenberg, open to use and improvement by anyone. GITenberg received a prototype grant from the Knight Foundation. Many of the innovations pioneered by GITenberg are now being adapted for application to Project Gutenberg.

The Mellon Foundation has funded a project led by the University of Michigan, in which the Free Ebook Foundation, University of Michigan Press, and Open Book Publishers are "Mapping the Free Ebook Supply Chain". The goal is to better understand how free ebooks are being discovered, acquired, and used.

June 1, 2017. Montclair, NJ. The Free Ebook Foundation announced today that it had taken on the administration of Free Programming Books. Free Programming Books is a collaboratively maintained list of courses, podcasts/screencasts and other free resources about programming and related topics. To date, over 850 different contributors have compiled over 3,000 links to free programming resources. The repo is the second most "starred" repository on Github , and it has a spot in the Github "constellation". There are lists for 22 different languages. (Github is a community where more than 22 million people learn, share, and work together to build software.)

Eric Hellman, President of the Free Ebook Foundation, said "Free Programming Books has been an outstanding example of how citizens of the internet can come together to advance knowledge, learning, and culture for the benefit of all. We pledge to be good stewards of the project and are grateful for the continuing support of the Free Programming Books community." Victor Felder, the Swiss Software Engineer who has guided Free Programming Books for the last few years, said "I'm very excited about this transition, the project means a lot to me and the Free Ebook Foundation is the perfect organization to take care of it. To all the contributors to this project, thank you!"

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Free Programming Books (https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books) is a collaboratively maintained Github repository with lists of books, courses, podcasts/screencasts and other free resources about programming and related topics. Fork us, commit changes, and send us a pull request!