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by Michael S. Hart 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

My apologies, the following portion is missing from the Newsletter that was sent out a few hours ago: While I must say I would like to expect something more from The Journal Science, I am pleased to find that it gives some background support in terms of how history, present and past, is ignored more and more quickly and thus explains the entire fixation our society has with the idea that things are getting more ADD and ADHD. When it comes right down to it, this study indicates a lot of our society has been more and more ADD when the subject comes to remembering the past, not just when a current generation is measured, but also back to 1973, and probably a lot longer. I believe that there is some truth to what some people say about there being too much information today, that no one can really get a handle on it, that they should be expected to have to depend on others, professionals of some nature, to pick and choose, and evaluate great amounts of information and then say what to look at. However, that being said, I must repeat that I said it was "some truth" and that an even larger worry will be the certainly that these choices will be biased, even, as scientifically proven ad nauseum, the most honest a person can hope for can be hired for such purposes. Even those who intend to be impartial have biases, and cannot help but pass them along. Then, on top of that, we must consider that most media professionals are not this honest to begin with. However, I really do like the idea of having databases of everything ever written, or whatever. What I don't like, of course, is that there is LIMITED ACCESS to them, even the public domain part. Of course, by 2100 there won't be enouhg public domain for that to be a consideration. You can pursue further details at: http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Elicit-a-Cultural /125731/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en PROJECT GUTENBERG MAKES THE NEWS WITH OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB After all these years, Oprah finally made a selection-- actually a pair of selections--from the public domain: "A Tale Of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations" both by Charles Dickens and available for years from PG and all the other eBook distributors who use our materials. In fact Tale Of Two Cities was one of our first 100 and is frequently on our Top 100 Downloads List. The Associated Press and their subscribers seem to give Project Gutenberg some credit for the fact that a sales figure for this combined edition by Penguin is not up a lot higher than it's current 43rd position. I don't expect Oprah to make do any more public domain, as I think her selections have been more about the cash than the materials. I am evenly split on these two, as I hated Great Expectations, loved Tale of Two Cities. /// My apologies, a correct version will be downloadable, or just let me know and I will send one directly. Michael

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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Dec. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors(a)pglaf.org The 40th Year of PG eBooks Started on July 4, 2010!!!!! PROJECT GUTENERG MILESTONES We passed 39,000 eBooks this month!!! We just posted our: 550th eBook in Finnish and 1700th in French We are just about to post our: 725th eBook in German, 500th in Portuguese, and 300th in Spanish, please send in titles you would like to see for these! A month ago we posted our 100th Greek eBook and we are already at 110. Downloaded Books as of 2010-12-20 yesterday 124,464 last 7 days 852,824 last 30 days 3,657,360 "Cultural Genome" Created From eBooks Ever since eBooks started people have been analyizing a variety of concepts, ideas, subjects, etc. about ways a language system works. Believe it or not back in the days when The Oxford Text Archive was still thinking it could dominate the world, at least the virtual literary world, they spent several times an entire median income just counting up "and" as it was used by Shakespeare. This was only part of many different studies trying to determine if Shakespears is really Shakespeare, or just some other bloke using that name to further his own interests. Personally, I think they could have used something such as The Project Gutenberg Shakespeare along with program features in Wordstar, etc., to do the counting with the same kind of results, perhaps even more accurate, and a lot less wasted time and money. Today's "Cultural Genome" studies hopefully are done in seconds rather than a year and hopefully cost much less unless someone is getting drastically overpaid just for supervising what could be done by student assistants as was also done back in the day. Here are some of the highlights of this study of a five million plus collection of eBooks: 1. People are getting famous at younger ages. Hmmm, that seems obvious since The Mickey Mouse Club-- though we do have to consider The Little Rascals, also Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, and Judy Garland, but a whole era since teens took over major portions of this economy obviously has created many more such stars. It also becomes more obvious when we consider that the eras before radio, movies and television will not have the same opportunities to consider. In those eras people really had to have both a talent, AND the ability to apply that talent to the world with no "talent scout" industry to round them up and get an entire career going, sometimes to the detriment of the child stars, as we have seen so much of lately. Of course, if you go back far enough, perhaps further, and further than this Cultural Genome seems to, we are likely to find the ages once again getting younger, as the average lifespan wasn't very long. Think about The Montagues and Capulets of Verona in an interesting play by Shakespeare called Romeo & Juliet. The four parents of Romeo & Juliet are probably around 30 years old, given that Romeo & Juliet are young teen age kids, and Juliet should likely have kids less than a year later if her parents plans had worked out. Given that the Montagues and Capulets were the leaders of civic Verona at that age and no mention was made of their parents, we must presume they have passed away. This leaves only the young. . . . It isn't that I don't enjoy reading the results of the Cultural Genome study, I just think they probably will find out, just as with Shakespeare, that things are in many ways the way they appear. After all, only those who were victims of censorships, and there were plenty, didn't already think the center characters, both children or parents in Romeo & Juliet were of any age considered serious today. 2. Things Are Changing Faster and Faster This was demonstrated in several different ways, but I wasn't surprised or amazed by them, sadly to say. A. Total words in English doubled from WWII to today, approximately and I don't think anyone would be unduly surprised to hear that, given the number of new words, each and every year. The cool part is that this was a conclusion drawn independently of lexicographers doing their picking and choosing which goes in dictionaries. That part I like a lot, and I think should be included in planning future dictionaries. . .to look at reality in terms of what words people are actually using. B. "Half Life" of references. The average number of references to "1880" fell a half in the 32 years up to 1912, but similar references for "1973" fell to half in only 10 years up to 1983. Again, in a world that is obviously addicted to using, and only using, the present tense, while using history for little more than a doorstop, this is not amazing. You can pursue further details at: http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Elicit-a-Cultural /125731/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en 24 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 2 years 0 months, 8 seasons, or 24 months. [Leaving 0 years, 10 months, 3 1/3 seasons. . ..] [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. Current long range prediction for drives: 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion books of 1 million characters each. >From Nov. 21, 2010 to December 21, 2012 is 24 Months. Nov 21, 2010 to October 11, 2011 is 10 Months -10 days. PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY IS COMING ON JANUARY 1, 2011 Every new year since the first copyrights expired, back around 1724, the world has looked forward to expiration of copyrights and the public domain availability of the works that have been kept under publishing monopolies. This coming January 1 Europeans will see a nice list of great works entering the public domain as the copyright terms expire, some listed below, but the United States, where their landmark Supreme Court Case decided that an extended copyright term could last literally forever, a person can no longer look forward to such happenings. In Europe this year some exampes of copyright expiring: Freud Havelock Ellis Zane Grey William Butler Yeats etc. These works will now be available for new life breathed into them via any number of unauthorized new editions a host of publishers and private citizens can now create, including new articles, books, TV shows, videos, movies and all other forms of media. Next year many people will ask why the sudden resurgent interest in Freud, Ellis, Grey, Yeats, etc. and answers will rarely include the fact that these authors weren't available for such endeavors before due to copyright. The media rarely refers to copyright expirations as the media feels they are dependent are extended copyrights, though it is hard to really expect that even the modern Oprah shows of this, her last season, will be of a huge interest when or if the copyright expires in 2105. If you are interested in more information search engine efforts should net you any number of sites via a simple "public domain day" search. You will find lists of items entering the public domain under various copyright terms in other countries, and a different set of lists of WOULD HAVE BEEN in the U.S.: Waton and Crick's original Nature article on DNA Walt Disney's original movie of Peter Pan The first James Bond adventure: Casino Royale The first issue of Playboy magazine Major works by: Ray Bradbury [Fahrenheit 451] J.D. Salinger [Nine Stories] Agatha Christie [A Pocket Full of Rye] C.S. Lewis [The Silver Chair, #4 in the Narnia series] James Baldwin [Go Tell It On The Mountain] Leon Uris [Battle Cry] not to mention great science fiction works by: Robert Anson Heinlein Isaac Asimov Arthur C. Clarke In addition all of the first HUGO AWARD winners must be considered, even though most or all of them were out in the year or two before the awards were given in 1953. WARNING: Any number of institutions appear to have the idea they can take credit for Public Domain Day," and I would be somewhat suspect of those claims, as copyright expirations have been taking place on January 1 a long, long, long time before anyone started celebrating it. However, one point most of the are making that is worth the time to pursue is that the public has less and less in the way of public domain rights, and not just in the way of extensions that make them last longer than a new modern day lifetime, but also in those rarely mentioned new forms of copyright of items that did not used to be in any manner copyrightable, such as sports box scores. Now, in my estimation, there isn't any new intellectual input required to write box scores, any more than to do the making of a telephone book, which has been ruled as not copyrightable, so obviously things are changing now even more than they already have, to the point where it appears nearly everything will be copyrightable. 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What many of you may not remember is how the copyrights were extended in the U.S. in 1998 and 1976 without even anything like the publicity in Australia or recently in Canada where it appears they might be the first country to actually resist such economic warfare efforts. If you don't think this deserves the term "warfare" and that it is really not such, perhaps you should consider that the 1998 U.S. Copyright Act was passed at the same time as President Clinton's impeachment bill was passed and done behind closed doors in a "voice vote" where it was not recorded who voted which way. Many people have asked why President Clinton could have been impeached when it would so obviously fail with far more votes missing that would have made it interesting. What they do NOT do is answer that question by listing, even with just a short list, the other bills that their special interests got passed, hidden behind smokescreen politics created by the impeachment. This is very powerful political maneuvering, and should be brought to light, even if it cannot be stopped. Perhaps there is time enough to shed light on these new bills coming up to continue the ad infinitum extensions of copyright that have changed the U.S. from having the shortest copyright terms to having the longest in those 89 years from 1909 to 1998 when U.S. copyright extended from 42 years maximum with rewnewals to 95 years and no renewal required. . .even though 92% of all books would never be renewed via the simple paperwork and the small nominal fee that was required. If nothing is done to dissuade Congress from doing this The Supreme Court has already given them the power from their point of view to extend as long as they want, and that makes permanent copyright of Mickey Mouse a given, and everything else of that era along with it including Winnie The Pooh [1928 and 1926, respectively.] The new current U.S. copyrights already date back to 1923 so it is obvious that Disney has the powerful vested interest required to keep the lobbying pressure on Congress. It should be noted that in The Supreme Court case lists of Eldred v Ashcroft [originally set as Hart v Reno] it was the Disney representative who got the best seats as Eric Eldred was confined to the back row as Rosa Parks, who won her case, and didn't have to sit in the back of the bus, but had to sit in the back of the courtroom. Hopefully there is time enough and interst enough to do something to bring attention to this matter before vote time for the next such copyright extension. 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There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers, in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading, and everything else on such mobile devices. More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites such as "m.gutenberg.org" In Our Own News Bin New Project Gutenberg Web Pages We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. I think you will find some interesting additional searching and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: http://gutenberg.trulymail.comi and another new effort at: http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ Details: The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold. I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them. And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out, producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first round of proofreading on texts I deliver. People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help in going through the process from start to finish. Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book are also very welcome. Marc D'Hooge marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com APPROACHING NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!! Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!! When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. 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The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] Various totals from the ~33,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites Week up to December 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-12-14 | 7 Wed 2010-12-15 | 13 Thu 2010-12-16 | 11 Fri 2010-12-17 | 1 Sat 2010-12-18 | 8 Sun 2010-12-19 | 12 Mon 2010-12-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to November 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-11-14 | 14 Mon 2010-11-15 | 11 Tue 2010-11-16 | 10 Wed 2010-11-17 | 9 Thu 2010-11-18 | 12 Fri 2010-11-19 | 4 Sat 2010-11-20 | 11 Weekly total = 71 Week up to October 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-10-14 | 10 Fri 2010-10-15 | 18 Sat 2010-10-16 | 10 Sun 2010-10-17 | 9 Mon 2010-10-18 | 15 Tue 2010-10-19 | 10 Wed 2010-10-20 | 10 Weekly total = 77 [Note: last two months were often much lower] Week up to September 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-09-14 | 10 Wed 2010-09-15 | 4 Thu 2010-09-16 | 7 Fri 2010-09-17 | 12 Sat 2010-09-18 | 5 Sun 2010-09-19 | 7 Mon 2010-09-20 | 19 Weekly total = 64 Week up to August 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2010-08-14 | 8 Sun 2010-08-15 | 9 Mon 2010-08-16 | 7 Tue 2010-08-17 | 7 Wed 2010-08-18 | 7 Thu 2010-08-19 | 5 Fri 2010-08-20 | 5 Weekly total = 48 [Lots of people on vacation] Week up to July 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-07-14 | 9 Thu 2010-07-15 | 21 Fri 2010-07-16 | 6 Sat 2010-07-17 | 6 Sun 2010-07-18 | 6 Mon 2010-07-19 | 5 Tue 2010-07-20 | 9 Weekly total = 62 Week up to June 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2010-06-14 | 15 Tue 2010-06-15 | 10 Wed 2010-06-16 | 17 Thu 2010-06-17 | 20 Fri 2010-06-18 | 20 Sat 2010-06-19 | 17 Sun 2010-06-20 | 35 Weekly total = 134 Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2010-05-14 | 8 Sat 2010-05-15 | 20 Sun 2010-05-16 | 7 Mon 2010-05-17 | 7 Tue 2010-05-18 | 12 Wed 2010-05-19 | 25 Thu 2010-05-20 | 19 Weekly total = 88 week up to Apr. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-04-14 | 14 Thu 2010-04-15 | 11 Fri 2010-04-16 | 12 Sat 2010-04-17 | 19 Sun 2010-04-18 | 12 Mon 2010-04-19 | 19 Tue 2010-04-20 | 7 Weekly total = 94 week up to Mar. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-03-14 | 9 Mon 2010-03-15 | 16 Tue 2010-03-16 | 11 Wed 2010-03-17 | 12 Thu 2010-03-18 | 16 Fri 2010-03-19 | 6 Sat 2010-03-20 | 11 Weekly total = 81 Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 Weekly total = 62 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 73 Previous Month 12/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: 11/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Weekly total = 39 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner for these figures! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 100 or more eBooks. Grand total for today: 34616 1 29054 English en 2 1709 French fr 3 724 German de 4 551 Finnish fi 5 508 Dutch nl 6 494 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 298 Spanish es 9 262 Italian it 10 110 Greek el Grand total for today: 34291 November 21st 1 28791 English en 2 1685 French fr 3 718 German de 4 544 Finnish fi 5 501 Dutch nl 6 488 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 297 Spanish es 9 255 Italian it 10 108 Greek el Grand total for today: 33980 October 21st 1 28548 English en 2 1664 French fr 3 713 German de 4 540 Finnish fi 5 497 Dutch nl 6 473 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 296 Spanish es 9 253 Italian it 10 102 Greek el Grand total for today: 33676 September 21st 1 28304 English en 2 1652 French fr 3 706 German de 4 534 Finnish fi 5 493 Dutch nl 6 467 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 294 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it 10 100 Greek el August 21st 1 28047 English en 2 1633 French fr 3 701 German de 4 532 Finnish fi 5 487 Dutch nl 6 460 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 292 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it Please note: 10 97 Greek el Suggestions Welcome For #100 in Greek!!! #300 in Spanish!!! #500 in Dutch!!! July 21st Grand total for today: 33108 1 27832 English en 2 1617 French fr 3 692 German de 4 531 Finnish fi 5 482 Dutch nl 6 456 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it June 21st Grand total for today: 32841 1 27597 English en 2 1605 French fr 3 685 German de 4 529 Finnish fi 5 481 Dutch nl 6 450 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it May 21st Grand total for today: 32366 1 27176 English en 2 1598 French fr 3 680 German de 4 527 Finnish fi 5 479 Dutch nl 6 433 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 242 Italian it Apr 21st Grand total for today: 31975 26832 English en 1590 French fr 674 German de 526 Finnish fi 476 Dutch nl 424 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 284 Spanish es 236 Italian it N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language, up to the top two, of course, tied for third. What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running? Mar 21st Grand total for today: 31616 26540 English en 1568 French fr 662 German de 524 Finnish fi 472 Dutch nl 410 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 283 Spanish es 235 Italian it Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to the last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// >From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf] December 21st Grand total for today: 34,616 up from 34,291 up 325 PG General Automated Count 1,915 up from 1,890 up 25 PG of Australia 749@ up from 742@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 678 up from 660 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,218 UP from 38,850 UP 368/368 Grand Total [Off by 0] November 21st Grand total for today: 34,291 up from 33,980 up 311 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,890 up 0 PG of Australia 749@ up from 736@ up 13@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 660 up from 639 up 21 PG of Canada ===== 38,850 UP from 38,518 UP 332 Grand Total [Off by 0] October 21st Grand total for today: 33,980 up from 33,676 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,871 up 19 PG of Australia 736@ up from 728@ up 12@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 639 up from 619 up 20 PG of Canada ====== 38,518 UP from 38,175 UP 343 Grand Total [Off by 0] September 21st Grand total for today: 33,676 up from 33,372 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,871 up from 1,870 up 1 PG of Australia 728@ up from 723@ up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,008 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved 619 up from 598 up 21 PG of Canada ====== 38,175 UP from 37,848 UP 327 Grand Total @ Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: August 21st Grand total for today: 33,372 up from 33,108 up 264 PG General Automated Count 1,870 up from 1,866 up 4 PG of Australia 723@ up from 719@ up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 598 up from 576 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,848 up from 37,588 UP 260 Grand Total Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,571 up from 38,277 up 294 Grand Total [off by 2] [41 entries are still listed as reserved, and the automated count still seems to have missed about 100 completed eBooks but I'm leaving both of those out for the moment.] July 21st Grand total for today: 33,108 up from 32,841 up 257 PG General Automated Count 1,866 up from 1,854 up 12 PG of Australia 719@ up from 716 up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 576 up from 558 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 37,588 DN from 37,977 DN 489 Grand Total This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,277 up from 37,977 up 292 Grand Total [off by 2] As above: Please note that the Project Gutenberg of Europe entries have apparently all been fed to general Project Gutenberg counting systems, though I was originally told they were not due to an apparently different copyright system. However I am told now that they all were selected to work under US copyright. I will continue to research this and make updates. I think I made an error here, beyone the "off by 2" so if you figure this out better, please let me know. Right now I'm just taking people's word for all this and will have to make future updates and announcements, but give these weeks included the start of our 40th year, I wanted to made a change at this time for recording purposes of this year. June 21st Grand total for today: 32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count 1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation] 716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total May 21st Grand totals for today: 32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation] 712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost one!] Apr 21st Grand totals for today: 31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???] 704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total [off by 1, ooops!] 700th PGEu eBook Posted!!! Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours. Mar 21st Grand totals for today: 31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total Feb 21st Grand totals for today: 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) November: 9 [up to November 21] December: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st Grand totals for today: 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 December 21, 2009 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; 100 eBooks in Greek as of September, 2010 TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 40th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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