Once upon a time back in 1970, a man named Michael S. Hart did some work for the University of Illinois. He was rewarded with almost unlimited access to the mainframe they operated. As Hart wanted to do something useful, he set up a system whereby all books would ultimately be digitized an stored on the mainframe. The format would have to be plain and simple ASCII so all future computers would still be able to read the data.
Project Gutenberg has now been in existence for almost 40 years and is still going strong. This despite the effort of Google to do the same work over again.
All of the materials on Project Gutenberg are either so old that they are copyright free or the copyright has been waved by the original author.
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