New Zealand gets its first 1000 ebooks, available now
August 28th, 2009 ·

While commercial publishers work on their project to bring 1000 Great New Zealand ebooks to market, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) has been quietly working to convert its collection to free downloadable ebooks — 1150 of them available right now.
The NZETC is afilliated to Victoria University in Wellington and has been busy digitising works of historical and literary interest for several years.

Chcek the full story on Martin Taylor's blog - E Report - Digital Publishing Down Under