Project Gutenberg Ends One Year And Starts Another Here are our totals for 2010 34,759 Up 3,998 From 30,761 PG General Automated Count 1,915 Up 185 From 1,830 Project Gutenberg of Australia 750* Up 75* From 675* Project Gutenberg of Europe *Not totaled 692 Up 224 From 468 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,009 Up 1 From 2,008 PrePrints ====== ====== 39,375 Up 4,408 From 35,067 Grand Total [Counting some subtractions] 12.077 eBooks Per Day 84.969 eBooks Per Week 367.333 eBooks Per Month My apologies for not getting this out earlier, I was on the road. Noon, January 6, 2011, is the end of our calendar production year number 40 and the beginning of our 41st 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. HEADLINE NEWS

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39,375 is our current total for internally manufactured eBooks: 4,408 more than last year's 35,067 final grand total! If we continue to average about 12 per day it should take perhaps another 50 days or 7 weeks to get to #40,000, which should be in the days when Winter is turning to to Spring. This means we should be ahead of 40,000 eBooks in 40 years. Who would have thought when we had created and posted: 1 eBook in 1971 10 eBooks in 1990 100 eBooks in 1993 1,000 eBooks in 1997 10,000 eBooks in 2003 we would have created and posted 40,000 eBooks by early in 2011? and 100,000 counting those donated by other eLibraries? 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 each year 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]. PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY IS NOW CELEBRATED EVERT JANUARY 1 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. Notable items that would have been public domain a year ago: Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. . .How True. . .How True!!! Walt Disney's Peter Pan. . .Is Copyright The New Captain Hook? The First James Bond Book, Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming Early books by Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller, Leon Uris, Jas Baldwin Watson and Crick's Original "Nature" Article on DNA C.S. Lewis' The Silver Chair Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March. 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 movie [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; ONLY 15% of all copyrights, 8% of books were ever renewed: meaning the vast majority of everything under copyright before 1982 would be in the 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 2010 we saw our 39,000th internally produced eBook go out, and our 29,000th in English, our 1,700th in French, 700th in German-- and our next eBook in Spanish will be #300; we also saw Dutch and Portuguese pass 500 eBooks and Greek has moved from less than 100 to 112 just in the last handful of week. We still need to find ways to do more in Spanish and Portuguese. These 39,000+ 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 2010 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-12-29 | 6 Thu 2010-12-30 | 13 Fri 2010-12-31 | 8 Sat 2011-01-01 | 10 Sun 2011-01-02 | 12 Mon 2011-01-03 | 14 Tue 2011-01-04 | 8 Weekly Total 73 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 Here are our totals for 2010 Grand total for today: 34759 1 29158 English en 2 1715 French fr 3 730 German de 4 559 Finnish fi 5 509 Dutch nl 6 500 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 264 Italian it 10 114 Greek el 11 75 Latin la 12 71 Esperanto eo 13 68 Swedish sv 14 54 Tagalog tl 15 33 Danish da 16 28 Polish pl 17 27 Catalan ca 18 20 Hungarian hu 19 15 Norwegian no 20 12 Japanese ja Here are our totals for 2010 34,759 Up 3,998 From 30,761 PG General Automated Count 1,915 Up 185 From 1,830 Project Gutenberg of Australia 750* Up 75* From 675* Project Gutenberg of Europe *Not totaled 692 Up 224 From 468 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,009 Up 1 From 2,008 PrePrints ====== ====== 39,375 Up 4,408 From 35,742 Grand Total [Counting some subtractions] 35,067 *Subtracting Europe From 2009 <<<< 12.077 eBooks Per Day 84.969 eBooks Per Week 367.333 eBooks Per Month Here is how we ended 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 <<<<< Here are our totals for 2009 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 Production Year Statistics From Last Year 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