
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:50:39PM -0500, Juliet Sutherland wrote:
2003 saw the posting of a lot of audio books and also several versions of the Bible in multiple sections. 2004 did not have any of those. In terms of actual new ebooks, 2004 is well ahead of 2003.
Alternative Stat: "Real e-Books" -------------------------------- Does the figure of "actual new ebooks" exist? If not, why not consider create it? Wikipedia too has both an "official" and a "real (> 200 ch) article count: http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm Request For New Stat: Human Resources and Work ---------------------------------------------- Moore Law has little chance to work here: there is no real technological progress going on (PGDP, gutcheck etc. help, but there are far from the ongoing technological progress going on since the 1950's in computers). It all boils down to human resources. Thos only expand exponentially in pyramid schemes. Granted, we still have some room for that... This is the reason why I believe an interesting figure would be the number of volunteers (PGDP active people would be a nice stat) and the amount of work they do (PGDP proofed pages would be a nice stat, not impeded by the PP bottleneck mentioned previously in this thread: if in 2005 PGDP volunteers proof 100 million pages but PGDP PP is still dripping out slowly, the official PG stats won't show what is really going on). Suggestion For Improvements: Work on PG and PGDPs's Home Pages -------------------------------------------------------------- PG decided to go public at the 10,000th e-book. I would like it to be more successful, famous, and have more volunteers. The ebooksgratuits.com webmaster has a very active group of people doing e-books in Word (I'm working on a filter to help them transform that in PG- acceptable formats, such as TXT or XHTML). He thinks a BIG reason why PG and PGDPs are not successful is the fact that the websites are not clear, not sexy, etc. You can have a look at his site or ask him for details to know what he means. I mention that here because I am not sure this issue is know amongs the volunteers (I'm new enough around here, maybe this has already been addressed).