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PT1b Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

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Holmes: The Poet at the Breakfast Table #2666 The Professor at the Breakfast Table #2665 Autocrat of Breakfast Table #751) Jun 2001 The Clue of the Twisted Candles, by Edgar Wallace [clotcxxx.xxx] 2688 Jun 2001 The Snare, by Rafael Sabatini [Rafael Sabatini #7][snarexxx.xxx] 2687 Jun 2001 The Book of Snobs, by William Makepeace Thackeray [snobsxxx.xxx] 2686 Jun 2001 The Way to Peace, by Margaret Deland [wy2pcxxx.xxx] 2685 Five Tales, by John Galsworthy 2684 Contents: The First And Last A Stoic The Apple Tree The Juryman Indian Summer Of A Forsyte (See also Etext #2594)] Saint's Progress, by John Galsworthy 2683 Jun 2001 Henri III et sa Cour by Alexandre Dumas Pere [#9][h3escxxx.xxx] 2682 [Language: French] Jun 2001 Ten Years Later, by Alexandre Dumas[Dumas Pere #8][tenyrxxx.xxx] 2681 (Please see the introduction which describes the various books of this title, (and how the various editions were published, and how they have been named, (and what in what order to read them.) (See also #1258) Jun 2001 Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius [medmaxxx.xxx] 2680 Jun 2001 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series Two [Emily D. #2][2mlydxxx.xxx] 2679 Jun 2001 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series One [Emily D. #1][1mlydxxx.xxx] 2678 Jun 2001 Epistles from Pap, Letters from Andrew E. Durham [efpapxxx.xxx] 2677C Jun 2001 The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, by Bret Harte [BH #34][tbroaxxx.xxx] 2676 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet From http://gutenberg.org? 1.14 Trillion eBooks Given Away If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,482,198,406 that would be 17,653 x 64,821,984 = ~1.14 Trillion !!! 6,482,198,406 64,821,984 With 17,605 eBooks online as of November 30, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.87 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 64,821,984 x 17,653 x $.88 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.57 Value Per Book With 17,653 eBooks online as of November 30, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.57 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.69 when we had 14,571 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 17,653 eBooks in 34 Years and 04.80 Months We Averaged ~513 Per Year 42.8 Per Month 1.40 Per Day At 2697 eBooks Done In The 329 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.2 Per Day 57 Per Week 250 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Weekly_November_30.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, November 30, 2005 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A *** A detailed Project Gutenberg interview with Sam Vaknin is available in: "The Ubiquitous Project Gutenberg" http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb46.html *** Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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[Includes Australian eBooks] We Are ~88% of the Way to 20,000!!! 14,591 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~250 eBooks per Month for ~56 Months We Have Produced 2697 eBooks in 2005!!! 2,347 to go to 20,000!!! 7,739 from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] 509 from Project Gutenberg of Australia 90 from Project Gutenberg of Europe [We will start including these in 2006] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Are Averaging ~250 books Per Month This Year [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] This Site Is Averaging ~57 eBooks Per Week This Year 49 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2002 to 2005 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BACKS WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY The U.S. Library of Congress has launched an effort to create a vast digital collection of artifacts representing the cultures of the world. Librarian of Congress James Billington said the World Digital Library would be "a documentary record of other great cultures of the world," dealing "with the culture of those people rather than with our contacts as Americans with those cultures." The new initiative will use as models the American Memory Project, which has digitized more than 10 million items representing "Americana," and the Global Gateway, a joint project with five national libraries in Europe and Brazil that highlights connections between those cultures and that of the United States. Initial funding for the World Digital Library will come from Google, which has pledged $3 million for the effort. Billington said he hopes to attract other private funding for the project. MSNBC, 22 November 2005 http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10147556/ ICANN TO CONSIDER SINGLE-LETTER WEB ADDRESSES The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has agreed to consider single-letter addresses such as a.com in response to company requests. (Six companies with single-letter names were allowed to keep their names when the existing system was established.) 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The new system can combine top-level domains with second-level domains for what the company calls more intuitive addresses for different categories of products and services, such as vegetables.supermarket. UnifiedRoot has established 13 master root servers worldwide to run its domain name system. To avoid conflicts, the company said, it will not register top-level domain names already registered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Existing Internet service providers will have to update their server directories to accommodate the new system names. ComputerWorld, 28 November 2005 http://www.computerworld.com/news/2005/story/0,11280,106559,00.html U.S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR E-BAY PATENT CASE The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a patent-infringement lawsuit involving eBay and a patent holding company that eBay lost in 2003. MercExchange holds a patent over sales and purchasing methods used in online auctions. The appeal deals with whether the U.S. District Court that handled the case should have issued a permanent injunction against eBay. The Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which handles patent lawsuits on appeal, ruled that the federal trial judge should have issued a permanent injunction against eBay, which said they believe the legal reasoning used will force district courts to issue more injunctions in patent lawsuits. Meanwhile, Congress is considering legislation that would change how patent injunctions are issued by federal courts. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is also exploring the issue. Wall Street Journal, 28 November 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113319064690608067.html BBC2 TO BROADCAST VIA BROADBAND Controller Roly Keating intends to make BBC2 the first mainstream TV station to broadcast via broadband. A broadband service pilot is scheduled for 2006 to run concurrently with further trials of MyBBCPlayer technology, which enables viewers to download and watch BBC content on demand. The broadband version of BBC2 reportedly will combine streamed media and downloads. Silicon.com, 25 November 2005 http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39154583,00.htm MPAA AND BITTORRENT MAKE NICE The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the creator of BitTorrent technology have announced an agreement that will keep many BitTorrent users from finding copyrighted movie files with the technology. In May, Bram Cohen added a service to his site, BitTorrent.com, that allowed users to search the Web for file downloads that use the popular technology. Under the new agreement, Cohen will remove copyrighted content from search results on his site. Although his technology has become a favorite for many traders in copyrighted material, Cohen does not offer services targeted at such users and has previously discouraged using the technology for illegal file trading. The entertainment industry has not targeted Cohen for prosecution for copyright violations, but a number of individual BitTorrent users have been sued for such violations. Despite the agreement, however, several other sites that search the Web for BitTorrent downloads remain operational. CNET, 22 November 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5967750.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** News from other sources: Music On A Stick The first album is now available for purchase on a RAM stick. $30 will buy you an entire CD of music, plus some holiday tunes, video, and other DVDish inclusions on a 128M RAM stick. [If you want only a 128M RAM stick, I just bought one at Fry's for $9.] Source: MICHELLE MEGNA and JIM FARBER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "Plan B" "Thanks to an investigation by the Government Accountability Office released this fall, we now know that the FDA's decision went against the advice of doctors and scientific experts. In fact, the decision was made by top FDA officials even before the scientific review was complete." Source: Lansing State Journal This one is a little strange: Berenstain Bears author Stan Berenstain died at 82, which was reported in depth on the public networks, Canadian Networks, and even in Italy, but I cannot find reports from CBS, NBC, or ABC. I wonder if there is some new bias on both sides, due to the fact there was a public broadcasting version of the Berenstain Bears. [The New York Times seems to have given the Bears some grief on this occasion for not being very politically correct. Of course, you might want to take into account that the Berenstain Bears started long before Policially Correct was in our Newspeak Dictionaries.] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Global Warming will continue to wreak havoc the polar caps, creating more record hurricanes, etc. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "If junk food is banned by the government," in schools, then why shouldn't we be able to ban military recruiters?" "Politics demands we have access to those oil fields." [Sorry, I must have written these down wrong, as I haven't been able to find them in my online searches.] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The hurricane season is finally ending, but not without new tropical storms appearing. The grand total appears as if a new record has been set at 26 named storms requiring letter names from the Greek alphabet for the first time, and going again into the record books with the most powerful storm of all recorded weather. The storms also struck a wider range geographically than ever before, in over 20 nations. Three category 5 hurricanes were included, yet another record. Katrina, Rita and Wilma each made the Top 5 of all time and clocked winds over 175 miles per hour. [So much for there being no evidence for Global Warming.] *** Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK dawn we grow in the direction of the zenith with sunrise rays revealing naked land my skin is yours in the morning embrace like pearly treasures buried in the sand the skies are wide your eyes the deepest blue transcend the mortal needs we feel today we look and see above the highest clouds the precious, secret dreams we've kept at bay enjoy today, your fingers say to me there's no return to yesterdays, you know and only us will gather where we've been and where to our hearts will want to go we grow in the direction of the zenith sometimes my moans embracing in a rhyme you are in me, I have the richest heart these sunrise rays abounding in your smile don't rush as time awaits for lovers still they live they die they are reborn again in just a second as it takes the sun to find the places where our hearts have been rejoice! 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At 17,605 eBooks in 34 Years and 04.60 Months We Averaged ~512 Per Year 42.7 Per Month 1.40 Per Day At 2649 eBooks Done In The 322 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.2 Per Day 58 Per Week 250 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. 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Weekly_November_23.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, November 23, 2005 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] LIBRARIES FOLLOWING RETAILERS' LEAD Libraries increasingly find themselves in a quandary between growing expectations among patrons for personalized services and libraries' traditional stance as a strong advocate for personal privacy. Commercial enterprises such as Amazon and Netflix typically make suggestions to customers based on previous purchases and can notify users when certain products are available. The library at North Carolina State University is implementing a program that offers students similar services based on past usage. To offer such services, however, the library must keep more-detailed patron records than many libraries keep, given the authority of government officials under the USA PATRIOT Act to subpoena those records. Officials from the university report that students are comfortable trading some measure of privacy for the convenience of personalized services. Another program at the University of Notre Dame offers similar suggestions to users, which, according to its developer, should simplify research for many students. Michael Golrick, the city librarian in Bridgeport, Conn., said that the large numbers of immigrants in his community would not be so willing to trade privacy for convenience. Many of them, he said, "came to this country to avoid the kinds of surveillance and persecution we're seeing tinges of today." New York Times, 20 November 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/weekinreview/20cowan.html UNIVERSITY COMBINES EXERCISE AND TECHNOLOGY The recreation center at Minnesota State University now includes computers that can be used while people are exercising. Although many fitness centers include individual TVs for treadmills and other pieces of equipment, officials at Minnesota State wanted to offer something more. They set up 40 adjustable stands, each of which has a computer, monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Students using the rec center can surf the Web, check e-mail, or perform other computer tasks while they exercise. One professor at the university said he will incorporate the new facilities into one of his fitness courses, where students will exercise while taking quizzes and doing other activities on the computers. Officials at other schools said they would consider adding similar facilities to their rec centers, noting that more and more students grew up multitasking and expecting to have access to a computer all the time. Some disagree with the approach. Stephanie Maks, who worked as a personal trainer for 20 years, said often the biggest hurdle to an effective exercise program is letting go of technology. "Don't bring the office with you to the gym," she said. Wired News, 20 November 2005 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69633,00.html CITIES AND TOWNS ADDING WIRELESS NETWORKS Cities and towns across the United States are launching, or announcing plans to launch, wireless broadband networks. Wireless technologies are evolving to allow increasingly secure, robust networks in city-wide installations. Large cities, such as Philadelphia and San Francisco, and smaller towns, such as Lebanon, Oregon, are establishing wireless municipal networks for reasons ranging from economic development to improved services for residents. In Tucson, Arizona, a wireless network will allow communication between ambulances and one of the city's hospitals, improving patient care. That network is expected to be online in mid-2006, and the service could be extended to other medical facilities in the city. Other municipalities see wireless Internet access as a valuable step in narrowing the digital divide and bringing the benefits of technology to lower-income residents. In Mountain View, California, Google, which is headquartered there, will develop a wireless broadband network at no cost to the city. Federal Computer Week, 21 November 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article91475-11-18-05-Web ONLINE EDUCATION EXPANDS IN AFRICA The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced a grant to fund online education efforts in Africa. The $900,000 grant will support the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa consortium, which is working to develop an online portal that will offer a broad array of educational materials from institutions such as MIT, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and Chinese Open Resources for Education. According to Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo, rector of the African Virtual University, which is part of the consortium, Africa is in great need of math and science teachers, and the new portal will be used in "teach the teacher" programs to educate new instructors in sub-Saharan Africa. The online resources will not be limited to teachers, however. Beginning in Tanzania and South Africa and spreading to other African countries, the portal will be openly available to anyone with Internet access. Dzvimbo said he hopes that eventually teachers in Africa will join the online efforts alongside the professors and students in the United States who will be initially involved. Inside Higher Ed, 17 November 2005 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/17/africa You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** News from other sources: The US "Patriot Act" has suffered several defeats of bills attempting to extend its powers. and *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA The US "Patriot Act" has suffered several defeats of bills attempting to extend its powers. * Iran's third proposed oil minister has been rejected due to "strong ties to the US and the UK." This third time around puts Iran in "uncharted constitutional waters" that might end up with the elimination of the minister of oil as a position. The first two were eliminated as lacking expertise, and the third was said to have strong ties to the US and the UK, as his daughter is citizen of the UK, and that he, himself, is the possessor of a US green card, both of which he denies. Source: BBC * Michael Scanlon, former aide to Congressional power Tom Delay, and partner of famous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pled guilty to a conspiracy to bribe public officials stemming from investigations into attempted fraud of his Indian tribe clients and corruption of a Congressman. Source: Washington Post, 11/21/05 *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK The Russian government now requires registration of all "non- governmental organizations." [NGO's] This is expected to end all such organizations other then the select few kept for display purposes. This would include New York-based Human Rights Watch, who has maintained their Moscow office for years, as well as a number of other such organizations such as Amnesty International and Greenpeace, etc. The new law, just passed by the Duma, would ban those foreign NGO's altogether, and also ban foreign workers and money from being used in Russian NGO's. NGO leaders have protested, saying this will end civil rights in Russia. The law was passed 380 to 18. Source: Reuters *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Japan's landing of a spacecraft on an asteroid to take samples and return them to Earth laboratories for scientific analysis, will renew interest in the old science fiction idea of "meteor mining" as a potential economic force. Even a tiny gold, platinum, or iridium asteroid under 100 feet in diameter could destroy the world's economic system, because in spacefaring terms, our finanical institutions are based on, still to this day, "beads and trinkets" that could still buy a Manhattan Island for $24 worth of such beads and trickets from the perspective of any spacefaring race that could simply pull such an asteroid out of orbit and give it to us for Manhattan. Think such asteroids don't exist? Just ask any dinosaur expert what wiped out those dinosaurs. It was an iridium asteroid, and a lot bigger than 100 feet. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "Television exists to create advertizing." "Politics demands we have access to those oil fields." "Nobody on their death bed says, I wish I'd spent more time at the office." [Quoting Barbara Bush] [_I_ might say that, if there aren't a million freely downloadable eBooks by the time I am lying there.] Charlie Rose and Ted Koppel, 11/22/05 *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK German companies now occupy 0 of Europe's Top 10 20 years ago there were 7 in the Top 10 [Interestingly enough, in reporting this story, I could not find one single online report, even from the BBC, from whose radio broadcasts I first heard it. MSNBC *had* done a story on it, but it vanished.] However, from another perspective, Germany's GDP is twice as much as the United Kingdom's, so it may be that while the largest companies, at least in Germany, aren't growing as fast, the economy is still an awfully large factor in Europe. Source: Global E-Commerce, Nov 21, 2005 In related news, since the year 2000, the list of the Top 100 Economic World Powers names more than half of these as companies, not countries: "Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are now global corporations; only 49 are countries." www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/top200.htm *** Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. 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[1% world population x #eBooks] 64,793,450 x 17,527 x $.88 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.57 Value Per Book With 17,486 eBooks online as of November 16, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.57 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.69 when we had 14,412 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 17,527 eBooks in 34 Years and 04.40 Months We Averaged ~510 Per Year 42.5 Per Month 1.40 Per Day At 2571 eBooks Done In The 315 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.2 Per Day 57 Per Week 247 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. 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PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Weekly_November_16.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, November 16, 2005 PT1 ******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******* !!! WE ARE NOW 7/8 OF THE WAY TO 20,000 eBOOKS !!! *** Project Gutenberg's Progress Towards Our Current Goal Of 20,000 eBooks Imagine the 20,000 books have been separated into 8 stacks of 2,500 each, we have just now completed 7 stacks leaving just 1 stack to go: GRAND TOTAL 20,000!!! BOOKS DONE!!! _____ (__8__( 20,000 _____ _____ BOOKS TO GO!!! (__7__( 17,500 (__7__( 17,500 _____ ______ (__6__( 15,000 (__6__( 15,000 _____ _____ (__5__( 12,500 (__5__( 12,500 _____ _____ (__4__( 10 000 (__4__( 10,000 _____ _____ (__3__( 7,500 (__3__( 7,500 _____ _____ (__2__( 5,000 (__2__( 5,000 _____ _____ _____ (__1__( 2,500 (__1__( 2,500 (__1__( 2,500 GRAND TOTAL 20,000 BOOKS DONE!!! BOOKS TO GO!!! Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] UN MEETING TO ADDRESS CONTROL OF INTERNET The United Nations (UN) is hosting an international conference this week in Tunisia to address concerns about U.S. control of the Internet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was set up in 1998 to oversee the Domain Name System, which reconciles Web addresses and directs Internet traffic to proper destinations. Despite an understanding that ICANN would become independent of any national ties, the Bush administration this year rejected such a move, and the organization still operates under the authority of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This situation has left many other countries complaining that the United States holds the power over a global resource, and nine different proposals for putting ICANN under the guidance of an international body will be addressed at the meeting in Tunisia, which will host as many as 15,000 delegates. Some individuals who were part of the work that led to the Internet have said that concerns over ICANN are misguided. Leonard Kleinrock, computer scientist at UCLA, said, "Everyone seems to think that the D.N.S. system is a big deal, but it's not the heartbeat of the Internet." Robert Kahn, one of the developers behind TCP/IP, said of ICANN, "There is nothing in there to control, and there are huge issues that the governments of the world really do need to work on." New York Times, 14 November 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/business/14register.html [What is NOT mentioned is that this meeting addressed using the availability of information via the Internet to combat poverty, and that, in fact, this was a major, if not THE major, topic. The official name of the conference is: The World Summit on the Information Society "The hurdle here is more political than financial. The costs of connectivity, computers and mobile telephones can be brought down," said United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.] GOOGLE FLOATS IDEA OF RENTING BOOKS Google has reportedly proposed a plan to rent books online. An unnamed publisher said that Google suggested the idea of letting consumers pay a fee, equal to 10 percent of the price of a printed copy of the book, to have online access to the text for one week. Rented books would not be downloadable or printable, according to the publisher, which said that although the fee Google suggested is too low, the notion of renting texts might represent a viable new model for content distribution. A spokesperson from Google said that although "Google Print is exploring new access models to help authors and publishers sell more books online," the company at this time has nothing to announce. Other publishers said they were curious about a rental program for books and are interested in hearing more details, as long as the program ensures that copyright holders are compensated. David Steinberger, chief executive of Perseus Books, also noted that for a rental program to be successful, it would have to augment physical book sales, not limit them. Wall Street Journal, 14 November 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113192806168096032.html SNOCAP ADDS WARNER MUSIC TO QUIVER Online music service Snocap has reached an agreement with Warner Music Group, giving Snocap deals with all four major record labels as well as a number of smaller, independent labels. The company already had struck deals with Sony BMG, Universal Music, and EMI Group. Snocap was founded by Shawn Fanning, creator of the original Napster. The company uses "fingerprinting" technology to label electronic music, which gives consumers online access to music while giving record labels the ability to control how files are used. Copyright owners can register songs with Snocap and then use the company's management system to set properties for how each track can be used. According to the company, consumers who use Snocap can be assured of having only legal downloads of music, without the risk of litigation for illegal file trading and without the risk of downloading viruses or other malware that is sometimes included in music on P2P services. CNET, 13 November 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5949869.html CONGRESS EXAMINES CONTROVERSIAL PORTIONS OF PATRIOT ACT Members of a Congressional committee this week took up discussions of the USA PATRIOT Act, including two highly controversial sections of the law. Several provisions of the law are scheduled to expire this year, and the committee is charged with reconciling House and Senate proposals to extend those provisions. Expected to be the focus of the discussions are Sections 215 and 505, which greatly expand federal authority to obtain information such as phone and library records on individuals and which prevent those under investigation from revealing, even to their attorneys, that they are under investigation. Advocates for civil liberties have been pressing federal officials for details on how these key sections of the law have been applied, including a letter recently sent by five U.S. Senators to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, demanding data on how many so-called national security letters have been issued since the PATRIOT Act was enacted. Although federal officials have revealed few specifics, supporters of the legislation argue that "vigorous oversight by congressional committees has uncovered no instances of abuse," according to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kans.). Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) noted, "The very act of surveilling citizens who aren't even suspected of wrongdoing is an abuse in itself." Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 November 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/11/2005111101t.htm FEDS PUSH FOR STRICTER COPYRIGHT PROTECTIONS According to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Justice Department recently submitted a package of legislative proposals to Congress that would broaden the scope of laws to protect copyright and would strengthen law enforcement powers to investigate such crimes. Among the proposals are recommendations to allow enforcement of copyrights, regardless of whether they are registered; to hold those found guilty of infringement liable for compensation to the victims; and to allow the seizure and destruction of counterfeit goods, equipment used to make such goods, and property acquired with the profits from such goods. The proposals would also make it a crime to "attempt to infringe copyright." Groups such as the Business Software Alliance and the Recording Industry Association of America welcomed the proposed changes to copyright law, while those concerned about fair use rights expressed reservations. An organization called Public Knowledge said in a statement that it is "concerned that the Justice Department's proposal attempts to enforce copyright law in ways it has never before been enforced." CNET, 10 November 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5944612.html NEW GROUP ADDRESSES OPEN SOURCE PATENT ISSUE A new organization hopes to eliminate one of the major obstacles to adoption of open source technology: concern over patent and royalty disputes over shared code. The Open Invention Network (OIN), which includes IBM, Sony, Royal Philips Electronics, and Linux distributors Red Hat and Novell, will acquire and freely share patents that organizers hope will encourage broader adoption of open source tools, particularly Linux. Any organization that agrees not to assert its patents over those who have licenses with OIN will be permitted to use OIN patents for free. The business model for OIN represents a new arrangement in which patents are shared to promote the underlying Linux technology. Industry analyst Richard Doherty said, "A lot of lawyers are going to throw their hands up and ask, 'How do we make money from this?'" The answer, he said, is that they might not. ZDNet, 10 November 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5943781.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** News from other sources: and *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "That's accurate," spoken by White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, now restated in the official White House transcripts as "I don't think that's accurate," when he responded to the following: "Whether there's a question of legality, we know for a fact that there was involvement. We know that Karl Rove, based on what he and his lawyer have said, did have a conversation about somebody who Patrick Fitzgerald said was a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency. We know that Scooter Libby also had conversations." Since then, the audio and video recordings of this have been analyzed by the various media, and The Congressional Quarterly and The Federal News Service have reported that Mr. McClellan said, "That's accurate," refusing the White House pressures to reverse their own transcripts. White House press office spokeswoman Dana Perino answered inquiries about the matter by saying, "the White House stenographer was in the room and I was in the room" and heard McClellan say `I don't think that's accurate.'" Source: Editor & Publisher, Nov 9, 2005 * United States military officials at the Pentagon finally admitted using white phosphorous as a weapon against soldiers as opposed to its official use for lighting targets and also providing smokescreens for other operations, after various official denials. Lt. Col. Venable, a Pentagon spokesman gave some details to the press, including white phosphorous was used as an "incendiary weapon against enemy combatants." It was also announced that the white phosphorous had been used to drive soldiers out of their bunkers by setting fire to them and via smoke inhalation, where they were then killed by a variety of more conventional weapons. Many classify white phosphorous as a chemical weapon when used against humans, as it sticks to soldiers and will burn through to the bone, also causing poisonous interactions with liver and kidneys. Source: BBC News and Bahrain News Agency, quoting Radio London Also, the Italian state 24 hours television news service RAI24 aired a documentary alleging use of white phosphorous in such a manner, and also in such an indiscriminate manner as to include many civilians. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The whole white phosphorous issue will be ignored. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "The U.S. Embassy in Rome issued a statement criticizing the documentary, saying any suggestion that U.S. forces used white phosphorous or any chemical weapons against human targets was simply wrong." Source: Navy Times, Associated Press *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK *** Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. 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PG is 7/8 of the Way to 20,000 eBooks!!!
by Michael Hart 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

!!! WE ARE NOW 7/8 OF THE WAY TO 20,000 eBOOKS !!! *** Project Gutenberg's Progress Towards Our Current Goal Of 20,000 eBooks Imagine the 20,000 books have been separated into 8 stacks of 2,500 each, we have just now completed 7 stacks leaving just 1 stack to go: GRAND TOTAL 20,000!!! BOOKS DONE!!! _____ (__8__( 20,000 _____ _____ BOOKS TO GO!!! (__7__( 17,500 (__7__( 17,500 _____ ______ (__6__( 15,000 (__6__( 15,000 _____ _____ (__5__( 12,500 (__5__( 12,500 _____ _____ (__4__( 10 000 (__4__( 10,000 _____ _____ (__3__( 7,500 (__3__( 7,500 _____ _____ (__2__( 5,000 (__2__( 5,000 _____ _____ _____ (__1__( 2,500 (__1__( 2,500 (__1__( 2,500 GRAND TOTAL 20,000 BOOKS DONE!!! BOOKS TO GO!!!

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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

GWeekly_November_09_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 09 Nov 2005 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 of the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: - Obtaining Project Gutenberg eBooks - Updates/corrections to previously posted eBooks - 45 New U.S. eBooks this week - 3 New eBooks at Project Gutenberg of Australia CONGRATULATIONS TO THE VOLUNTEERS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA! On, Mon 07 Nov 2005, eBook #500 was announced. And as noted in this week's listing, there are actually 502 titles posted. In addition to the postings unique to the Australia collection, Col Choate and his team of volunteers have also contributed substantially to the PG U.S. eBook collecltion. Thank you, and best wishes to all! 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Lopez 17023 [Title: Ap-Ap (Zarzuela) at Kung Sinong Ap-Ap (Kasaysayan)] [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/2/17023 ] [Files: 17023-8.txt; 17023-h.htm] The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea, by George Collingridge 17022 [Subtitle: Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries] [in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606,] [with Descriptions of their Old Charts.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/2/17022 ] [Files: 17022.txt; 17022-8.txt; 17022-h.htm] Watch and Clock Escapements, by Anonymous 17021 [Subtitle: A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever,] [Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the] [Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/2/17021 ] [Files: 17021.txt; 17021-8.txt; 17021-h.htm; ] The False Gods, by George Horace Lorimer 17020 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/2/17020 ] [Files: 17020.txt; 17020-8.txt; 17020-h.htm; ] A String of Amber Beads, by Martha Everts Holden 17019 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17019 ] [Files: 17019.txt; 17019-8.txt; ] Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II, by Burton J. Hendrick 17018 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17018 ] [Files: 17018.txt; 17018-8.txt; 17018-h.htm] The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I, by Burton J. Hendrick 17017 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17017 ] [Files: 17017.txt; 17017-8.txt; 17017-h.htm] Division of Words, by Frederick W. Hamilton 17016 [Subtitle: Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with] [Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17016 ] [Files: 17016.txt; 17016-8.txt; 17016-h.htm] Mor i Sutre, by Hjalmar Bergman 17015 [Language: Swedish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17015 ] [Files: 17015-8.txt] The War Chief of the Six Nations, by Louis Aubrey Wood 17014 [Subtitle: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant] [Volume 16 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada] [Editor: George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17014 ] [Files: 17014.txt] Fortunata y Jacinta, by Benito Pz Gald 17013 [Subtitle: dos historias de casadas] [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17013 ] [Files: 17013-8.txt; 17013-h.htm] The House of Walderne, by A. D. Crake 17012 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17012 ] [Files: 17012.txt; 17012-h.htm] I.N.R.I., by Peter Rosegger 17011 [Subtitle: A prisoner's Story of the Cross] [Tr.: Elizabeth Lee] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17011 ] [Files: 17011.txt; 17011-8.txt; 17011-h.htm; ] La faneuse d'amour, by Georges Eekhoud 17010 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/1/17010 ] [Files: 17010-8.txt; 17010-h.htm] Studies in Occultism, by H. P. Blavatsky 17009 [Full title: Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the] [Writings] [of H. P. Blavatsky] [Subtitle: No. 1: Practical Occultism--Occultism versus the Occult] [Arts--The Blessings of Publicity] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17009 ] [Files: 17009.txt; 17009-8.txt; 17009-h.htm] A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco, by King James I 17008 [Editor: Edmund Goldsmid] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17008 ] [Files: 17008.txt; 17008-8.txt; 17008-h.htm] Imaginre Brcken, by Jakob Wassermann 17007 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17007 ] [Files: 17007-8.txt; 17007-0.txt; 17007-h.htm] Two Christmas Celebrations, by Theodore Parker 17006 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17006 ] [Files: 17006.txt] Lendas e Narrativas (Tomo II), by Alexandre Herculano 17005 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17005 ] [Files: 17005-8.txt] Histoire des plus clbres amateurs italiens, by Jules Dumesnil 17004 [Full title: Histoire des plus clbres amateurs italiens et de leurs] [relations avec les artistes] [Subtitle: Tome IV] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17004 ] [Files: 17004-8.txt; 17004-h.htm] Indiscreet Letters From Peking, by B. L. Putman Weale 17003 [Subtitle: Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some] [Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a] [Distressed Capital in 1900--The Year of Great Tribulation] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17003 ] [Files: 17003.txt; 17003-h.htm; ] Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China, by J. V. N. Talmage 17002 [Full title: History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of] [the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17002 ] [Files: 17002.txt; 17002-h.htm] An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer 17001 [Full author: Derrick Norman Lehmer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17001 ] [Files: 17001.txt; 17001-8.txt; 17001-0.txt; 17001-h.htm] [17001-pdf.pdf; 17001-tei.tei] Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, Alexander Hume 17000 [Subtitle: A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles] [Editor: Henry B. Wheatley] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/0/17000 ] [Files: 17000.txt; 17000-8.txt; 17000-0.txt; 17000-h.htm] Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family, Andrew Archibald Paton 16999 [Subtitle: or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/9/16999 ] [Files: 16999.txt; 16999-8.txt; 16999-h.htm] The Betrayal, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 16998 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/9/16998 ] [Files: 16998.txt; ] Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Vols. I & II, by William Sleeman 16997 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/9/16997 ] [Files: 16997.txt; 16997-8.txt; 16997-h.htm] Two Old Faiths, by J. Murray Mitchell and William Muir 16996 [Subtitle: Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/9/16996 ] [Files: 16996.txt; 16996-8.txt; 16996-h.htm] Riley Love-Lyrics, by James Whitcomb Riley 16995 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/9/16995 ] [Files: 16995.txt; 16995-8.txt; 16995-h.htm] A Year's Journey through France & Part of Spain, Vol. 2, by Thicknesse 16994 [Author: Philip Thicknesse] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/9/16994 ] [Files: 16994.txt; 16994-8.txt; 16994-h.htm; ] Miss Dexie, by Stanford Eveleth 16993 [Subtitle: A Romance of the Provinces] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/9/16993 ] [Files: 16993.txt; 16993-8.txt; 16993-h.htm] On the King's Service, by Innes Logan 16992 [Subtitle: Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/9/16992 ] [Files: 16992.txt; 16992-8.txt; 16992-h.htm] The Circus Comes to Town, by Lebbeus Mitchell 16991 [Illustrator: Rhoda Chase] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/9/16991 ] [Files: 16991.txt; 16991-h.htm] Posies, by Isidore Ducasse 16989 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/8/16989 ] [Files: 16989-8.txt; 16989-h.htm] Le IIe livre des masques, by Remy de Gourmont 16988 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/8/16988 ] [Files: 16988-8.txt; 16988-h.htm] Craftsmanship in Teaching, by William Chandler Bagley 16987 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/8/16987 ] [Files: 16987.txt; 16987-8.txt; 16987-h.htm; ] The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys, by Baha'u'llah 16986C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/8/16986 ] [Files: 16986.txt; 16986-8.txt; 16986-0.txt; 16986-h.htm; 16986-pdf.pdf; 16986-tei.tei] Proclamation of Baha'u'llah, by Baha'u'llah 16985C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/8/16985 ] [Files: 16985.txt; 16985-8.txt; 16985-0.txt; 16985-h.htm ] [ 16985-pdf.pdf; 16985-tei.tei] Prayers and Meditations, by Baha'u'llah 16984C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/8/16984 ] [Files: 16984.txt; 16984-8.txt; 16984-0.txt; 16984-h.htm ] [ 16984-pdf.pdf; 16984-tei.tei] The Kitab-i-Iqan, by Baha'u'llah 16983C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/8/16983 ] [Files: 16983.txt; 16983-8.txt; 16983-0.txt; 16983-h.htm ] [ 16983-pdf.pdf; 16983-tei.tei] -=-=-=-=[ 3 NEW EBOOKS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Oct 2005 The Survivor, E. 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