This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for February 2019 CONTENTS * Cory Doctorow Understands Copyright * Marie Lebert's 15-year Research Project on eBooks (2000-2016) * The US is Still celebrating the Growth of the Public Domain * BookView from Pictoscope * Website Redesign Project * Join Distributed Proofreaders * Find Project Gutenberg on social media * New eBook Listings from January 2019 * Cory Doctorow Understands Copyright Author Cory Doctorow has made a number of contributions to the Project Gutenberg collection (see: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3826). He was an early proponent of making his books freely available for redistribution, under a permissive license. "The Grand Reopening of the Public Domain" was a conference and celebration of the end of the 20-year hiatus on growth of the public domain in the US. Cory gave the closing keynote, which you can watch in this 25-minute video: Closing Keynote For Grand Reopening Of The Public Domain https://archive.org/details/ClosingKeynoteForGrandReopeningOfThePublicDomain... Among other things in the presentation, he describes how "grifters" have taken elements of The Commons - which is owned by everyone - and instead restricted ownership to just a few. In his view, Locke was a "thinkfluencer." There is no online transcript yet, so watch or listen to learn more. * Marie Lebert's 15-year Research Project on eBooks (2000-2016) Dr. Marie Lebert spent years writing about eBooks, including a deep focus on Project Gutenberg's history, purpose, and ambitions. Marie's updated essay describes the struggle of following one's passion for discovery and understanding, without financial support: https://marielebert.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/plea/ You can find her writings in Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a32388 Writings based on interviews with founder Michael Hart are featured in the "About Us" page: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:About Project Gutenberg is grateful for Dr. Lebert for years of effort to study and communicate the role of electronic books in society. * The US is Still Celebrating the Growth of the Public Domain In 1998, when the annual growth of the public domain in the US was put on hiatus, Project Gutenberg mourned. At the time, copyright term lengths were not a frequent topic of conversation. Today, though, it seems there is great awareness that growth of the public domain is important in many ways. 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The Gun Runners, by Ralph Williams 58798 David Crockett: Scout, by Charles Fletcher Allen 58797 [Subtitle: Small Boy, Pilgrim, Mountaineer, Soldier, Bear-Hunter and Congressman; Defender of the Alamo] [Illustrator: Frank McKernan] Through the Wheat, by Thomas Boyd 58796 Memoir of a Brother, by Thomas Hughes 58795 The Englishwoman in Russia, by A Lady 58794 [Subtitle: Impressions of the Society and Manners of the Russians at Home] The Daughter of Virginia Dare, by Mary Virginia Wall 58793 Anatole France, by Walter Lionel George 58792 Precepts in Practice, by A. L. O. E 58791 [Subtitle: or, Stories Illustrating the Proverbs] A Cold Night for Crying, by Milton Lesser 58790 Robin Hood, by Anonymous 58789 [Subtitle: Being a Complete History of All the Notable and Merry Exploits Performed by Him and His Men on Many Occasions] Jean Christophe III, by Romain Rolland 58788 [Subtitle: Nuorukainen] [Language: Finnish] The Elements of Child-protection, by Sigmund Engel 58787 The Queen's Reign, by Walter Besant 58786 [Subtitle: And its commemoration. A literary and pictorial review of the period. Etc] The Gray Angels, by Nalbro Bartley 58785 And Gone Tomorrow, by Andy Offut 58784 Harper's Round Table, July 21, 1896, by Various 59783 Neues Spanisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch || Nuevo diccionario 58782 español-alemán, by Theodor Stromer [Language: German] Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs, by Norman B. Wood 58781 [Subtitle: From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess and Powhatan, down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo] Durch den Nebel, by F. Hugin 58780 [Language: German] Robinson-koulu, by Jules Verne 58779 [Subtitle: Seikkailuromaani Tyyneltämereltä] [Language: Finnish] Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Francis Parkman 58778 Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of George Eliot 58777 The Life of Bismarck, Private and Political, by George Hesekiel 58776 [Subtitle: With Descriptive Notices of His Ancestry] The North Devon Coast, by Charles G. Harper 58775 Court Netherleigh, by Mrs. Henry Wood 58774 [Subtitle: A Novel] Les Machines, by Joe Love 58773 Kunnon Kasper ja kaunis Anni, by Clemens Brentano 58772 [Language: Finnish] The Lost Tribes of the Irish in the South, by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb 58771 [Subtitle: An Address at the Annual Dinner of the American Irish Historical Society, January 6, 1917] Beryl of the Biplane, by William le Queux 58770 [Subtitle: Being the Romance of an Air-Woman of To-Day] The Life of a Fox, by Thomas Smith 58769 [Subtitle: Written by Himself] [Illustrator: H. Alken] On Horseback Through Asia Minor, Vol. 1 of 2, by Fred Burnaby 58768 The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books 58767 of the Bible, Vol. 13 of 32, by W. Harris [Subtitle: The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Proverbs] Suicide, by William Wynn Westcott 58766 [Subtitle: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention] The Cowardly Lion of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson 58765 [Illustrator: John R. Neill] Cycle Rides Round London, by Charles G. Harper 58764 Jack Jingle, and Sucky Shingle, by Anonymous 58763 The New-Year's Bargain, by Susan Coolidge 58762 [Illustrator: Addie Ledyard] The Precious Name, Proofs of the Godhead and a Hymn, by John Church 58761 Hirsipuumies, by Runar Schildt 58760 [Subtitle: Sydäntalven tarina] [Language: Finnish] The British Journal of Dermatology, April 1905, by Various 58759 First Stage: Moon, by Dick Hetschel 58758 Chats on Old Silver, by Arthur Hayden 58757 A Manual of Pyrotechny, by G. W. Mortimer 58756 [Subtitle: or, A Familiar System of Recreative Fire-works] A Lost Leader, by Dorothea Townshend 58755 [Subtitle: A Tale of Restoration Days] [Illustrator: Harold Piffard] Soffrona and her Cat Muff, by Mary Martha Sherwood 58754 The Roses of Saint Elizabeth, by Jane Scott Woodruff 58753 [Illustrator: Adelaide Eberhart] The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages, by Anna Maria Cust 58752 The Friendly Five, by Mary C. Hungerford 58751 [Subtitle: A Story] Superstition and Force, by Henry Charles Lea 58750 [Subtitle: Essays on The Wager of Law, The Wager of Battle, The Ordeal, Torture] Inducements to the Colored People of the United States 58749 to Emigrate to British Guiana, by Richard Hildreth and Edward Carbery Escape Velocity, by Charles L. Fontenay 58748 Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate: Three 19th Century American 58747 Telescope Makers, by Robert P. Multhauf Memoir of the Life and Services of Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel 58746 Brenton, Baronet, K.C.B., by Jahleel Brenton Jean Christophe II, by Romain Rolland 58745 [Subtitle: Aamu] [Language: Finnish] Money is the Root of All Good, by Patrick Wilkins 58744 Little Boy, by Harry Neal 58743 Esko Virtalan esittämiä kertomuksia, by Edvin Calamnius 58742 [Author a.k.a. Esko Virtala and Esko Waltala] [Language: Finnish] The House of Sleep, by Elizabeth Bartlett 58741C [Illustrator: Paul Bartlett] Complete Life of William McKinley and Story of His Assassination, 58740 by Marshall Everett [Subtitle: An Authentic and Official Memorial Edition, Containing Every Incident in the Career of the Immortal Statesman, Soldier, Orator and Patriot] Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Benjamin Disraeli 58739 On Horseback Through Asia Minor, Vol. 2 of 2, by Fred Burnaby 58738 Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Charles Darwin 58737 English Church Architecture of the Middle Ages, by A. Freeman Smith 58736 [Subtitle: An Elementary Handbook] Peace, by Norman Arkawy and Stanley Henig 58735 Pleasing Poetry and Pictures, by Anonymous 58734 [Subtitle: For the Mind and the Eye] Spatial Delivery, by Randall Garrett 58733 Windmills and wooden shoes, by Maude M. Grant 58732 [Illustrator: Bess Bruce Cleaveland] A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, 58731 and Germany, Volume 2 of 2, by John Moore [Subtitle: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters] Miracle by Price, by Irving E. Cox 58730 Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. 1, No. 12, August, 1835, by Various 58729 Small Talk at Wreyland, Third Series, by Cecil Torr 58728 Small Talk at Wreyland, Second Series, by Cecil Torr 58727 Small Talk at Wreyland, First Series, by Cecil Torr 58726 Quickie, by Milton Lesser 58725 Oswego-joella, by James Fenimore Cooper 58724 [Subtitle: "Tienviitan" seikkailuja, intiaanikertomus] [Language: Finnish] Bernardin de St. Pierre, by Arvède Barine 58723 Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Richard F. Burton 58722 Unwelcomed Visitor, by William Morrison 58721 Odette, by Ronald Firbank 58720 [Subtitle: A Fairy Tale for Weary People] [Illustrator: Albert Buhrer] How the National Association for the Advancement 58719 of Colored People Began, by Mary White Ovington Bobby Blake in the Frozen North, by Frank A. Warner 58718 [Subtitle: The Old Eskimo's Last Message] [Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers] The Early History of the Post in Grant and Farm, by James Wilson Hyde 58717 The Day of Doom, by Michael Wigglesworth 58716 [Subtitle: A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment: With Other Poems] Drawings of Old London, by Philip Norman 58715 New History of the Life and Adventures of Tom Thumb, by Unknown 58714 México tal cual es, by Carlo de Fornaro 58713 [Language: Spanish] Campfire Girls' Lake Camp, by Irene Elliott Benson 58712 [Subtitle: or, Searching for New Adventures] Traced and Tracked, by James McGovan 58711 [Subtitle: Memoirs of a City Detective] The Land of Darkness, by Margaret Oliphant 58710 When Scout Meets Scout, by Ashton Lamar 58709 [Subtitle: or, The Aeroplane Spy] [Illustrator: S.H. Riesenberg] When Scout Meets Scout, by Ashton Lamar 58709 [Subtitle: or, The Aeroplane Spy] [Illustrator: S.H. Riesenberg] The British Journal of Photography, No. 613, Vol 19, 58708 February 2, 1872, by Various Kirsteen: The Story of A Scotch Family Seventy years ago, 58707 by Margaret Oliphant Essais de Montaigne, Vol. 4, by Michel de Montaigne 58706 [Subtitle: (Self-édition)] [Language: French] Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, 58705 Vol. 3 of 3, by Horace Walpole The Sunny South Oölogist. Vol. 1, by Edwin C. Davis 58704 Key and Guide to Native Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines 58703 of Dallas County, by Norma J. Stillwell The Cricket of Abel, Hirst, and Shrewsbury, by Various 58702 Edina, by Mrs. Henry Wood 58701 [Subtitle: A Novel] Crimes and Punishments, by James Anson Farrer 58700 [Subtitle: Including a New Translation of Beccaria's 'Dei Delitti e delle Pene'] Sunny-San, by Winnifred Eaton 58699 Les plaisirs et les jours, by Marcel Proust 58698 [Illustrator: Madeleine Lemaire] [Language: French] American Architecture; Studies, by Montgomery Schuyler 58697 Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Robert G. Ingersoll 58696 Whale Primer, by Theodore Joseph Walker 58695 [Subtitle: With Special Attention to the California Gray Whale] Highland Legends, by Thomas Dick Lauder 58694 A Wreath of Indian Stories, by A. L. O. E 58693 The Vigil of Brunhild, by Frederic Manning 58692 [Subtitle: A Narrative Poem] Round about a Pound a Week, by Maud Pember Reeves 58691 For the Love of Lady Margaret: A Romance of the Lost Colony, 58690 by William Thomas Wilson Poesias Eroticas, Burlescas, e Satyricas de M.M. de Barbosa 58689 du Bocage, by Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage [Subtitle: não comprehendidas na edição que das obras d'este poeta se publicou em Lisboa, no anno de 1853] [Language: Portuguese] Jungle in the Sky, by Milton Lesser 58688 Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Joel Chandler Harris 58687 China und Japan, by Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg 58686 [Subtitle: Erlebnisse, Studien, Beobachtungen] [Language: German] The privilege of pain, by Caroline Kane Mills Everett 58685 Finding Themselves, by Julia Stimson 58684 [Subtitle: The Letters of an American Army Chief Nurse in the British Hospital in France] Flora von Deutschland, by Otto Schmeil and Jost Fitschen 58683 [Language: German] Infinity's Child, by Charles V. de Vet 58682 The History of Battery H First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery 58681 in the War to Preserve the Union 1861-1865, by Earl Fenner The Land of Content, by Edith Barnard Delano 58680 A Parisian Sultana, Vol. 3 of 3, by Adolphe Belot 58679 A Parisian Sultana, Vol. 2 of 3, by Adolphe Belot 58678 A Parisian Sultana, Vol. 1 of 3, by Adolphe Belot 58677 Index of The Project Gutenberg Works of Benjamin Franklin 58676 Jean Christophe I, by Romain Rolland 58675 [Subtitle: Sarastus] [Language: Finnish] Trout Flies of Devon and Cornwall, and How and When to Use Them, 58674 by G. W. Soltau It Takes a Thief, by Walter Miller 58673 Westminster, by Walter Besant 58672 The Holyhead Road, Vol 1, by Charles G. Harper 58671 [Subtitle: The Mail-coach road to Dublin] Dreamer's World, by Bryce Walton 58670 The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 7 58669 [Subtitle: History of Central America, Vol. 2, 1530-1800] Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Vol. 2 of 2, by Charles G. Harper 58668 [Subtitle: A picturesque history of the coaching age] Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Vol. 1 of 2, by Charles G. Harper 58667 [Subtitle: A picturesque history of the coaching age] Riceyman Steps, by Arnold Bennett 58666 [Subtitle: A novel] The Parthenon at Athens, Greece and at Nashville, Tennessee, 58665 by Benjamin Franklin Wilson, III My Rubaiyat, by Sadakichi Hartmann 58664 The Housekeeper's Valuable Present, by Robert Abbot 58663 [Subtitle: Lady's Closet Companion] Gloves, by Willard M. Smith 58662 [Subtitle: Past and Present] Histoire de la caricature au moyen âge et sous la renaissance, 58661 by Jules François Félix Husson [Language: French] Pussy and Her Language, by Marvin R. Clark and Alphonse Leon Grimaldi 58660 Resurrection Seven, by Stephen Marlowe 58659 The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 6 58658 [Subtitle: History of Central America, Vol. 1, 1501-1530] A Little Colored Boy and Other Stories, by Methodist Book Concern 58657 The Child in Human Progress, by George Henry Payne 58656 Tales from the Gesta Romanorum, by Anonymous 58655 The psycho-analytic study of the family, by J. C. Flügel 58654 The Revealing Pattern, by Alvin Heiner 58653 The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918, 58652 by John Price Jones and Paul Merrick Hollister Wessex, by Charles G. Harper 58651 Introduction to the study of the history of language, 58650 by Herbert Augustus Strong, Willem Sijbrand Logeman and Benjamin Ide Wheeler Three Great Epoch-Makers in Music, by Edward Farnsworth 58649 Elegìe Romane, by Gabriele D'Annunzio 58648 [Language: Italian] Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill 58647 Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Edmund Burke 58646 Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People, by Anonymous 58645 Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Alexis De Tocqueville 58644 Teatro selecto, tomo 3 de 4, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca 58643 [Language: Spanish] Whipperginny, by Robert von Ranke Graves 58642 Wenn Landsleute sich begegnen, by Jassy Torrund 58641 [Subtitle: und andere Novellen] [Language: German] Reise ins heilige Land, by Anton Prokesch Ritter von Osten 58640 [Subtitle: Im Jahr 1829] [Language: German] Welcome Martians, by S. A. Lombino 58639 Rogue's Haven, by Roy Bridges 58638 Hajamietteitä kapinaviikolta 3 of 3, by Juhani Aho 58637 [Language: Finnish] Board-Work;, by Edwin Creer 58636 [Subtitle: or the Art of Wig-making, Etc. Designed For the Use of Hairdressers and Especially of Young Men in the Trade. to Which Is Added Remarks Upon Razors, Razor-sharpening, Razor Strops, & Miscellaneous Recipes, Specially Selected] Cavalry, by Friedrich von Bernhardi 58635 [Subtitle: A Popular Edition of "Cavalry in War and Peace"] An Irish Cousin, Vol. 2 of 2, by Geilles Herring and Martin Ross 58634 An Irish Cousin, Vol. 1 of 2, by Geilles Herring and Martin Ross 58633 Maryland Line in the Confederate States Army, by W. W. Goldsborough 58632 Nuoren tytön elämäntarina, by Cornelia Lewetzow 58631 [Language: Finnish] Pyhä sontiainen, by Else Jerusalem 58630 [Subtitle: Kuvaus porttola-elämästä] [Language: Finnish] The Magic Makers and the Bramble Bush Man, by Margaret Sutton 58629 [Illustrator: Pelagie Doane] Watermelon Mystery at Sugar Creek, by Paul Hutchens 58628 Bob Steele In Strange Waters, by Donald Grayson 58627 [Subtitle: or, Aboard a Strange Craft] North Woods Manhunt, by Paul Hutchens 58626 [Subtitle: A Sugar Creek Gang Story] Hours in a Library Vol. 3 of 3, by Leslie Stephen 58625 [Subtitle: New Edition, with Additions] Sailor and beachcomber, by Arnold Safroni-Middleton 58624 [Subtitle: Confessions of a life at sea, in Australia, and amid the islands of the Pacific] Open Letter to President McKinley by Colored People of Massachusetts 58623 The Briary Bush, by Floyd Dell 58622 [Subtitle: A Novel] War-Time Breads and Cakes, by Amy L. Handy 58621 The Power of a Lie, by Johan Bojer 58620 The Hymn-Book of the Modern Church, by Arthur E. Gregory 58619 [Subtitle: Brief studies of hymns and hymn-writers] The Voice of Faith in the Valley of Achor, Vol. 2 of 2, by John Church 58618 [Subtitle: Being a Series of Letters to Several Friends on Religious Subjects] The Last Rebel, by Joseph A. Altsheler 58617 [Illustrator: Elenore Plaisted Abbott] The Voice of Faith in the Valley of Achor, Vol. 1 of 2, by John Church 58616 [Subtitle: Being a Series of Letters to Several Friends on Religious Subjects] Lirica, by Annie Vivanti 58615 [Language: Italian] Mediæval London, by Walter Besant 58614 [Subtitle: Vol. 2, Ecclesiastical] The Phoenix of Sodom, by Robert Holloway 58613 [Subtitle: or the Vere Street Coterie] The Ornithologist and Oölogist. Vol. 8, No. 3, March 1883, by Various 58612 [Subtitle: Birds: Their Nests and Eggs] New Hampshire, A Poem; with Notes and Grace Notes, by Robert Frost 58611 Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, North Carolina, 58610 by Charles W. Peter, III [Subtitle: National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 16] Buried Treasure of Casco Bay, by Bernett Faulkner Kennedy, Jr. 58609 [Subtitle: A Guide for the Modern Hunter] The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Third, by Thomas W. Knox 58608 [Subtitle: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Ceylon and India] Ludwig Tieck, by Rudolf Köpke 58607 [Subtitle: Erinnerungen aus dem Leben des Dichters nach dessen mündlichen und schriftlichen Mitteilungen] [Language: German] An Essay on Laughter, by James Sully 58606 [Subtitle: Its Forms, its Causes, its Development and its Value] The Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Assistant and Guide, by Various 58605 [Subtitle: Containing a Brief History of the Trade, History of India-rubber and Gutta-percha, And Their Application to the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes. Full Instructions in the Art, With Diagrams and Scales, Etc., Etc. Vulcanization and Sulphurization, English and American Patents. With an Elaborate Treatise on Tanning] The Olivia Letters, by Emily Edson Briggs 58604 [Subtitle: Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent] Christ the True Melchisedec, by John Church 58603 A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations, and other Affections 58602 of the Bones, by Pierre-Joseph Desault Hiking Westward, by Roger W. Conant 58601 [Illustrator: Frank T. Merrill] The Sacrifice of Life, by John Church 58600 [Subtitle: slain by the twenty-nine instruments of death] The Devil and Parson Church, by Anonymous 58599 [Subtitle: or, Birds of a feather] Another Brownie Book, by Palmer Cox 58598 The Meredith Mystery, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln 58597 Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, 58596 Vol. 2 of 4, by E. Cobham Brewer The Golden Boys Rescued by Radio, by Levi Parker Wyman 58595 White Lightning, by Edwin Herbert Lewis 58594 The Garden of God, by H. De Vere Stacpoole 58593 Milch Cows and Dairy Farming, by Charles Louis Flint 58592 [Subtitle: Comprising the Breeds, Breeding and Management, in Health and Disease, of Dairy and Other Stock, The Selection Of Milch Cows, With A Full Explanation Of Guenon's Method & The Culture Of Forage Plants]