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Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest digital library created to digitize and archive public-domain cultural works.

It hosts over 75,000 titles, primarily older works with expired US copyright, and provides content in plain text, EPUB, and Kindle formats.

According to our data, Project Gutenberg is the 9th most popular ebook technology on the web.
It has 2.1% of the ebook market share and is detected on 0.003% of all websites.

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📊 Rankings and Market Share

Ebooks
- Rank: 9
- Market share: 2.1%

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⚡ Sites Using Project Gutenberg

We have data on 102 websites that use Project Gutenberg ebook technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using Project Gutenberg is ibiblio.org.

#	Website	🔗	Rank	Country	Language
1	ibiblio.org	bookshelf/60 22403 7256	#42,292	United States	American English
2	runeberg.org	author/2376 author/9475	#56,435	Sweden	English
3	pgdp.net	77274 77271 77270	#61,682	United States	American English
4	histmag.org	3810	#95,699	Poland	Polish
5	baos.pub	4300	#219,414		English
6	unqualified-reservations.org	521	#222,495		English
7	newyorkalmanack.com	3178	#258,490	United States	American English
8	epubbooks.com	4934 76529 75808	#275,496	Germany	American English
9	davidgorman.com	12116	#415,693	United States	Canadian English
10	pseudopod.org	14044	#430,150	United States	American English
11	conversableeconomist.com	16643	#438,501		American English
12	thehistoryjar.com	63567	#458,252		American English
13	janeaustensworld.com	17797 22536 42856	#473,197		English
14	ethicsalarms.com		#481,617		English
15	kycolonelcy.us	23798	#521,226	United States	American English
16	irwincollier.com	71527	#522,744	United States	American English
17	nancynall.com		#537,464	United States	American English
18	ringing.info	18567 44341 17576	#548,160	United Kingdom	English
19	longtail.co.jp	11	#563,069	Japan	English
20	sherlockholmes.com	author/69	#566,659		English

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use Project Gutenberg:

are located in the United States
have content in English
use the .com domain extension
fall into the Education/Reference category.

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Most of the sites using Project Gutenberg are from the United States and the United Kingdom.

Most Project Gutenberg users speak English.

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The primary market segments for websites utilizing Project Gutenberg include education and reference, blogs and wiki, and entertainment.

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