Miranda van de Heijning wrote:
Perhaps I don't understand Moore's Law properly, but aren't we actually well behind on its schedule? If we published our 10,000th book at the end of 2003, doubling in 1.5 years means 20,000 books in mid-2005. At the current rate we are not likely to reach that figure--anywhere between 16k and 17k seems more realistic.
It's not something to be ashamed of, as we are still extending the archive at a very respectable rate, so can we not just be honest about it and admit that we while we predicted 20,000 based on Moore's Law, we are no longer growing that quickly. I've always understood Moore's Law to be just a prediction, not a target, so we haven't failed anything. :-)
Other than that, congratulations on reaching 15,000! What was posted as eBook 15000?
Recently, we haven't matched Moore's law's growth rates, not that there's ANYTHING AT ALL wrong with that - Project Gutenberg is still growing at its fastest rate ever. However, if you look over the entire history of PG, you'll see that on average, we're quite ahead of Moore's law. If our production grows at less than the Moore's law rate for much longer, then our average growth rate may slip below that predicted by Moore. It's a nice statistic while it lasts but I think everybody at PG know what it's all about: producing e-books not just quickly but WELL. At some point in the future, PG may produce less books than, say, the Million Book Project. However, if you compare PG's double/triple proofread texts against the Million Book Project's unproofed OCR from quickly-done scans, I think people will see where the true value lies. Cheers, Holden