On Mon, 22 May 2006, Michael Dyck wrote:
Michael Hart wrote:
If we double that number to 100,000, we could pretend these results indicated that Google had accomplished 1% of a goal of 10,000,000 books, in 25% of their 6 year plan.
In 1993, PG had accomplished 1% of its goal of 10,000, in about 70% of the total time.
Only if you keep refusing to acknowledge that there was not an ordinary production schedule until 1991. . . . Mr. Dyck has been refusing to acknowlege for some time that an ordinarly growth curve is impossible to create when the growth is linear. . .i.e. one per year. . . . And sometimes it was even less, as when the copyright law fell out of favor in 1976, and was replaced with a longer one, thus ruining our first efforts at a Complete Shakespeare. Project Gutenberg growth curves have always been presented for dates starting in January of 1991, the first year of scheduled production rates: 1 per month in 1991 2 per month in 1992 4 per month in 1993 8 per month in 1994 16 per month in 1995 32 per month in 1996 97 98 99 [Survived a big financial loss] [A big reason we don't let money rule Project Gutenberg] Obviously by doubling the total number of books from 1971-90 in the single year of 1991, and then again, and again in the next few years, eliminates any usefulness of incorporating a linear, or less, growth rate that previously existed. Here is the current graph, also included as an attachment to insure it is not broken by mailer margination. 12341234123412341234123412341234123412341234123412341234123412341234 -90--91--92--93--94--95--96--97--98--99--00--01--02--03--04--05--06- *Perhaps 20K >07/06 20K *Estimated 19.5K >05/06 19.5K 19,020 on March 31, 2006 19K > 03/06 19K 18,500 on February 13, 2006 18.5K > 02/06 18.5K Added ~216 from PG of Europe January 01, 2006 18K > 01/06 18K Added 1 from PG PrePrint Site, January, 2006 17.5K > 11/05 17.5K 17K > 08/05 17K 16.5K > 06/05 16.5K 16K > 04/05 16K 15.5K > 02/05 15.5K 15K > 01/05 15K 14.5K > 11/04 14.5K 14K > 10/04 14K 13.5K > 08/04 13.5K 13K > 06/04 13K 12.5K > 04/04 12.5K 12K > 03/04 12K 11.5K > 02/04 11.5K 11K > 01/04 11K 10.5K > 11/03 10.5K >>> October 15, 2003 >>> 10K > 10/03 *10K* 9,500 > 9/03 9,500 9,000 > 8/03 9,000 8,500 > 7/03 8,500 8,000 > 5/03 8,000 7,500 > 3/03 7,500 Note this graph is in 1/4 years 7,000 > 1/03 7,000 6,500 > 12/02 6,500 6,000 > 9/02 6,000 5,500 > 7/02 5,500 5,000 > 4/02 5,000 4,500 > 2/02 4,500 Added PG Australia in August, 2001 4,000> 10/01 4,000 3,500 >5/01 3,500 3,000> 12/00 3,000 2,500 > 8/00 2,500 2,000 > 12/99 2,000 1,500 > 10/98 1,500 1,000 > 8/97 1,000 500 > 4/96 500 100 >12/93 <<<December 10, 1993 100 10>12/90 10 -90--91--92--93--94--95--96--97--98--99--00--01--02--03--04--05--06- YEARS 12341234123412341234123412341234123412341234123412341234123412341234 QUARTERS