Brewster "Internet Archive" Kahle is giving Project Gutenberg a nudge:
1. take a large catalog of books in libraries,
2. tag each entry with its US copyright status,
3. prioritize those that are out of copyright,
4. try to inspire the world to digitize the out-of-copyright books,
5. format the books for online distribution,
6. organize the resulting digitized books,
7. cause enlightenment in all corners of the globe.
(Thanks, Aaron!)