Project Gutenberg
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 2.4% of the ebook market share and is detected on 0.003% of all websites.
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Project Gutenberg is available for free.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Ebooks
- Rank: 9
- Market share: 2.4%
⚡ Sites Using Project Gutenberg
We have data on 124 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 theverge.com.
| # | Website | 🔗 | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1906 | #56 | American English | ||
| 2 | author/2376 | #56,435 | Sweden | English | |
| 3 | 77274 | #61,682 | United States | American English | |
| 4 | 3810 | #95,699 | Poland | Polish | |
| 5 | 47342 | #210,183 | United States | English | |
| 6 | 4300 | #219,414 | India | English | |
| 7 | 521 | #222,495 | English | ||
| 8 | 51054 | #275,496 | Germany | American English | |
| 9 | 12116 | #415,693 | United States | Canadian English | |
| 10 | 16643 | #438,501 | American English | ||
| 11 | 63567 | #458,252 | American English | ||
| 12 | #473,197 | English | |||
| 13 | #481,617 | English | |||
| 14 | 23798 | #521,226 | United States | American English | |
| 15 | 71527 | #522,744 | United States | American English | |
| 16 | #537,464 | United States | American English | ||
| 17 | #548,160 | United Kingdom | English | ||
| 18 | 11 | #563,069 | Japan | English | |
| 19 | author/69 | #566,659 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 20 | 14975 | #602,325 | 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.
Most of the sites using Project Gutenberg are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- United States 52.9%
- United Kingdom 12.6%
- Germany 11.5%
- Canada 4.6%
- Japan 3.4%
- India 2.3%
- Poland 2.3%
- Australia 1.1%
- Brazil 1.1%
- Other 8.2%
Most Project Gutenberg users speak English or German.
- English 91.1%
- German 4%
- Spanish 1.6%
- Japanese 0.8%
- Dutch 0.8%
- Polish 0.8%
- Hebrew 0.8%
- Other 0.1%
Project Gutenberg ebook technology is especially popular on .com, .org, and .net top-level domains.
- .com 52.4%
- .org 17.7%
- .net 8.9%
- .de 3.2%
- .info 2.4%
- .co.uk 1.6%
- .org.uk 1.6%
- .blog 1.6%
- .nl 0.8%
- Other 9.8%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Project Gutenberg include education and reference, blogs and wiki, and entertainment.
- Education/Reference 29%
- Blogs/Wiki 16.1%
- Entertainment 9.7%
- Marketing/Merchandising 6.5%
- Art/Culture/Heritage 6.5%
- Business 3.2%
- Portal Sites 3.2%
- Sports 3.2%
- Personal Pages 3.2%
- Other 19.4%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Project Gutenberg from?
Project Gutenberg is from Montclair, New Jersey, United States.
Is Project Gutenberg free?
Yes, it is a free ebook technology.
Which country uses Project Gutenberg the most?
The majority of Project Gutenberg users are from the United States.
Who uses Project Gutenberg?
According to our data, Project Gutenberg is used on over a hundred sites, including such established ones as theverge.com,
runeberg.org, and
pgdp.net.
How does Project Gutenberg compare to the competition?
Project Gutenberg is a moderately popular ebook technology, ranking ahead of 3 other ebook technologies we track.
What are the alternatives to Project Gutenberg?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Project Gutenberg may include 
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.