-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 12:32 PM 9/15/2005, you wrote:
There are already DVDs out there containing from ~10,000 to ~40,000 eBooks, and this is only using single-sided single-layered $1 blank DVDs.
That is true, however, the reason we can only get 5000 of the DP books onto a DVD is because many of them include pictures and there are multiple versions in HTML, PDF, ETC. So, yes. If we only took plaintext, we could probably squeeze all of the DP stuff onto a couple CDs. Maybe even one. This is actually a good introduction to another topic which I have been mulling over. I'll start a new thread for that though.
The newer DVD burners will put twice as much on a single DVD, dual-layered, but the media is still going to be expensive until/unless they catch on.
However, several new DVD formats are on the way that should make all this a moot point, as the entire Project Gutenberg collection should fit on a single one of the DVDs [other than the Human Genome, etc.].
True, or perhaps flash technology will eventually catch up in capacity and price. Sincerely Aaron Cannon - -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iD8DBQFDKb7lI7J99hVZuJcRAsAGAJ4pTzj0H4XufYVWkwzf1FtSAhyTSACgt3Gm g5PkKL25pgEbINZaoAlVj6E= =cj5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----