Marcello Perathoner wrote on 27/07/2006, 6:15 AM:
According to worldebookfair.com they serve 1 million ebooks / day.
gutenberg.org serves 60.000 ebooks / day.
According to alexa¹ worldebookfair.com gets less traffic than gutenberg.org and still they manage to serve 16 times as many ebooks. I wonder how they do that?
¹) http://www.gutenberg.org/internal/stats/alexa user: internal pass: books
On the plus side gutenberg.org gets some traffic from worldebookfair.com. This is where people came from in July:
Listing the top 30 referring sites by the number of requests, sorted by the number of requests.
reqs %reqs site 236070 19.04% http://www.google.com/ 125094 10.09% http://en.wikipedia.org/ 107354 8.66% http://worldebookfair.com/ 57974 4.68% http://search.yahoo.com/ 31210 2.52% http://www.google.co.uk/ 25132 2.03% http://www.promo.net/ 18850 1.52% http://www.google.co.in/ 17347 1.40% http://www.google.ca/ 16011 1.29% http://www.google.de/ 15762 1.27% http://www.stumbleupon.com/ 13664 1.10% http://profile.myspace.com/ 13238 1.07% http://www.google.com.au/ 12807 1.03% http://my.yahoo.com/ 12650 1.02% http://www.google.fr/ 12649 1.02% http://64.233.179.104/ 11854 0.96% http://www.digg.com/ 11694 0.94% http://digg.com/ 9228 0.74% http://www.google.com.ph/ 8621 0.70% http://search.msn.com/ 7801 0.63% http://www.ovelho.com/ 7671 0.62% http://www.worldebookfair.com/ 6568 0.53% http://66.249.93.104/ 6487 0.52% http://oldfashionededucation.com/ 6475 0.52% http://www.google.es/ 6023 0.49% http://www.google.it/ 5894 0.48% http://www.google.pl/ 5854 0.47% http://librivox.org/ 5824 0.47% http://www.google.com.br/ 5751 0.46% http://www.google.nl/ 5106 0.41% http://luminis1.wright.edu/ 413228 33.33% [not listed: 20,347 sites]
-- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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I do say, that's good word of mouth to get over 100,000 requests from the book fair site. Of course indeed, a lot of our traffic comes from wikipedia (which has a nice article on PG) and from people searching for books or for PG itself. Any word of mouth is great, no matter where it comes from :) Jared -- .