Project Gutenberg Ends One Year And Starts Another Noon, January 6, 2010, is the end of our calendar production year number 39 and the beginning of our 40th year, though our 40 years of calendar time won't be complete until July 5, 2011. This date is due to our previous calendar being a weekly one running from a Wednesday noon to the next Wednesday noon. Once someone else has taken over the Newsletters, they are welcome to change this to an alternate date such as midnight January 1, but I was always awake and working at noon, and able to send out weekly newsletters so I just did what worked on that schedule. Hot Requests We need lawyers in the following fields: Probate Contract Copyright We also need people who can help make our web pages better for an ever increasing number of people surfing in on cellphones, and in different languages. We will give you all you need to design and implement your own Project Gutenberg web pages. Who knows, it is possible you could start a whole famous web page design career. Public Domain Day The first day of the years is Public Domain Day, when we list the works that would have gone into the public domain that day if not for the most recent two copyright extensions [but don't forget we have had more extensions from the original 14 years]. Notable items that would be public domain now: Fahrenheit 451 Walt Disney's Peter Pan The First James Bond Book Early books by Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller, Leon Uris, Jas Baldwin Watson and Crick's Original "Nature" Article on DNA Salinger's Nine Stories

From Here To Eternity Asimov's Second Foundation Early works of Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, E.E. Smith, van Vogt War of the Worlds Julius Caesar [James Mason, Marlon Brando, etc.]

Before these last two major copyright extensions renewals were of legal necessity to double the length of copyright terms, and most works were never renewed: 15% of all copyrights, 8% of books had never been renewed, meaning the vast majority of everything under copyright before 1982 would now be public domain. Read more about this at: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pre1976 and related web pages. These are great articles by a great copyright lawyer. Milestones Of The Year In 2009 we saw our 35,000th internally produced eBook go out, and our 25,000 in English, our 1,500th in French, 600th in German and 500th in Finnish. We also saw Dutch and Chinese pass 400 eBooks. We still need to find ways to do more in Spanish and Portuguese. These 35,000+ eBooks representing over 50 languages are at: http://www.gutenberg.org 75,000+ Donated eBooks representing over 100 languages are at: http://www.gutenberg.cc 100,000 Total Titles In toto, counting the eBooks donated to us from other eLibraries, individuals and schools at http://www.gutenberg.cc we now have in well excess of 100,000 titles, though it is probably closer to an even 100,000, given various duplications, etc. Production Year Statistics The numbers presented below will approximate what are recorded as of noon on January 6, and the production year will be recorded as running last year from Wednesday, January 7, 2009 through January 6, 2010, and the coming year will end on January 5, 2011. Thus we had 52 Wednesdays this past year for 364 days; every once in a while we get 53 production weeks on this calendar, which has to be one reason for eventually changing it. 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 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; 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 ~~ Rechecking Date 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Rechecking Date 28,500 ~~ Rechecking Date 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