Defunct online archives

consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts

Library.nu, previously called ebooksclub.org from 2004 to 2007 and Gigapedia from 2007 to 2010, was a popular linking website. It was accused of copyright infringement and shut down by court order on February 15, 2012. According to the takedown notice, it hosted some 400,000 ebooks.