Hmm, what does "ebook" mean in this context exactly?

Gutenberg has a heck of a lot more than 35k digital texts of books, I 
consider them all 'ebooks'. What does Gutenberg consider 'ebooks' exactly?

On 2/17/2011 12:29 PM, Charles Ledvina wrote:
> Hello Matt:
>
> There are 35,224 records in this bzip file from Project Gutenberg:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.marc.bz2
>
> from this page:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs
>
> It is their complete eBook collection and they say the file is updated
> daily.
>
> --Charles Ledvina
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:03:58 -0500, Matt Amory<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>> If so can you send me a URL?
>>
>> Thanks much!
>> Matt Amory
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Michele DeSilva<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>>> Hi Code4Lib-ers,
>>>
>>> I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming archive
>>> from
>>> the conference.
>>>
>>> I also have a question: my library has a horribly antiquated A to Z
> list
>>> of
>>> databases and online resources (it's based in Access). We'd like to do
>>> something that looks more modern and is far more user friendly. I found
> a
>>> great article in the Code4Lib journal (issue 12, by Danielle Rosenthal
> &
>>> Mario Bernado) about building a searchable A to Z list using Drupal.
> I'm
>>> also wondering what other institutions have done as far as in-house
>>> solutions. I know there're products we could buy, but, like everyone
>>> else,
>>> we don't have much money at the moment.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any info or advice!
>>>
>>> Michele DeSilva
>>> Central Oregon Community College Library
>>> Emerging Technologies Librarian
>>> 541-383-7565
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>