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PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Weekly_August_03.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, Auguest 3, 2005 PT1 *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971****** Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart(a)pobox.com or gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart(a)pobox.com Please note that we are still in the process of correcting our statistical program data. Last week we subtracted a few that we thought had been in a duplicate count situation, but either that correction didn't stick or some new similar problem has occured. As always, the total count should be the consideration of some attention as to possibly being off by a few eBooks. Please note that PT2 of this Newsletter is currently in flux, as we shift from to an automated PT2 sender. The situation with Monthly Newsletters is in flux to an even greater degree. Our apologies as we make changes. * HOT REQUESTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS WANTED! 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We have now averaged ~495 eBooks per year since July 4th, 1971 We Averaged About 339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Are Averaging About 272 books Per Month This Year We Are Averaging About 63 eBooks Per Week This Year 59 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 ~1.25 years from Oct. 2003 to Jan. 2005 from 10,000 to 15,000 * ***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.] [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. 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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1903 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright [Note: books without month and year entries have been reposted] Oct 1999 [Reserved for WWI] [ xxx.xxx] 1914* Oct 1999 The Drums Of Jeopardy, by Harold MacGrath [jprdyxxx.xxx] 1913 The Muse of the Department, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: James Waring] 1912 Oct 1999 Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther[#6][clbtyxxx.xxx] 1911 Sep 1999 La Tulipe Noire, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere#6/French][tlpnrxxx.xxx] 1910 [Language: French] (Note: abridged edition) (See Also: #965, Full-length English Edition) Sep 1999 Darwin and Modern Science, by A.C. Seward[50th Yr][drwnmxxx.xxx] 1909 Sep 1999 Her Prairie Knight, by B. M. Bower[B.M. Bower #10][hrprkxxx.xxx] 1908 Sep 1999 Rowdy of the Cross L, by B. M. Bower [BM Bower #9][rowdyxxx.xxx] 1907 Erewhon, by Samuel Butler[Subtitle: or, Over the Range] (Revised Edition) 1906 Sep 1999 The Governess [Female Academy], by Sarah Fielding [gvrnsxxx.xxx] 1905 Sep 1999 Life & Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner[lpoamxxx.xxx] 1904 Sep 1999 Everybody's Guide to Money Matters, by Wm. Cotton [egtmmxxx.xxx] 1903 The Old Peabody Pew, by Kate Douglas Wiggin 1902 [Subtitle: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church] Sep 1999 Secret of the Woods, by William J. Long [sctwdxxx.xxx] 1901 Sep 1999 Typee, by Herman Melville [Herman Melville #2][typeexxx.xxx] 1900 Sep 1999 The Village Rector, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#79][vrctrxxx.xxx] 1899 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,457,924,389 that would be 16,859 x 64,579,244 = 1.08 Trillion !!! With 16,859 eBooks online as of August 3, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.92 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,579,244 x 16,859 x $.92 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,859 eBooks online as of August 3, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.59 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.74 when we had 13,438 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,859 eBooks in 34 Years and 01.00 Months We Averaged ~495 Per Year 41.2 Per Month 1.35 Per Day At 1903 eBooks Done In The 210 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9.1 Per Day 63 Per Week 276 Per Month 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. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] HP ENDS IPOD SALES Executives at HP have put an end to a deal with Apple Computer under which iPod music players were available as HP-branded devices. Although the deal was first announced in January 2004, the first models were not available from HP until the fall of 2004, and sales of HP iPods accounted for just 5 percent of iPod sales on average. According to an HP spokesperson, the company remains committed to a strategy of digital entertainment, but "reselling the iPod does not fit within that strategy." Under the terms of the original agreement, HP will continue to provide support for the iPods it has sold, and HP is not allowed to market a competing digital music player until August 2006. HP expects its current inventory of iPods, iPod Minis, and iPod Shuffles will last through the end of September. The company will continue to sell other digital-entertainment products, such as televisions and Media Center PCs. CNET, 29 July 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-5810643.html PRINCETON DEBUTS UNIVERSITY CHANNEL Princeton University has launched the University Channel, an online repository of video footage of academic lectures. The service serves as a central location for finding lectures and presentations from colleges and universities that submit materials. Donna Liu, executive director of the project, noted that although some institutions provide Webcasts of important lectures, frequently tapings of lectures are purely for archival purposes and cannot be easily located or viewed later. The focus of the channel initially will be lectures on public policy and international affairs, and several institutions have already submitted content for the site. Topics might be expanded in the future. The University Channel is also working with cable companies to broadcast some of the lectures over cable networks. The new channel is similar in concept to a project at the University of Washington called the Research Channel, which focuses on scientific and medical research. Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 July 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/07/2005072801t.htm BROADENING THE SCOPE OF FREE COURSEWARE Rice University's Connexions project is an effort to take the idea of free educational materials to a new level. Started in 1999 by Richard Baraniuk, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice, Connexions is not unlike MIT's OpenCourseWare project, which puts course materials from all MIT classes online for free. In contrast, Connexions takes the approach of aggregating course materials from professors at any school. Connexions also offers feedback tools that allow users to rate content, similar to rating systems on sites such as Amazon.com. In Connexions, ratings happen after publication, rather than before publication as in traditional peer review, but Baraniuk believes the rating system can provide an alternative to traditional peer review, a system Baraniuk believes is broken. Baraniuk also sees enormous potential in Connexions to help community colleges, which rely heavily on adjunct professors who often have little time for course development. With relatively limited resources, faculty at community colleges could use Connexions to create courses tailored for their institution and students, rather than the common practice of simply having to rely on a single textbook for material. Inside Higher Ed, 29 July 2005 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/07/29/open CISCO AND SECURITY RESEARCHER AGREE TO DISAGREE Security researcher Michael Lynn and Cisco Systems have reached an agreement that should put an end to Cisco's legal action against Lynn for speaking publicly about a flaw in the company's router software. Lynn, who until Wednesday was employed by Internet Security Systems (ISS), gave a presentation at the Black Hat Conference discussing the vulnerability. Cisco and ISS had discouraged Lynn from giving the presentation, saying that a patch had been issued for the flaw. Lynn believed Cisco had not been open with consumers about the severity of the problem, and he resigned from ISS to protest the company's position that he should not give the presentation. After he left ISS, however, Lynn faced legal action from Cisco, which argued that he had no right to make the presentation since he was no longer employed by ISS. Under the agreement, Lynn will stop disclosing information about the flaw, and the legal action will be canceled. Computer security expert Bruce Schneier applauded Lynn for his conviction in exposing what he thought was a serious flaw despite the risks of going public. Matt Bishop, professor of computer science at the University of California- Davis, said he sees the practice of exposing flaws publicly as a dangerous practice and that working with the affected vendor is preferable. San Jose Mercury News, 29 July 2005 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12255870.htm CONGRESS GETS SERIOUS ABOUT DATA PRIVACY Ahead of its August recess, Congress moved data-security measures to the top of its agenda, with various House and Senate committees considering three different bills dealing with the protection of sensitive information. The broadest legislation being considered is the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act, which would place new restrictions on how personal information may be used and imposes criminal penalties for those found to have violated it. The bill would limit the sale and publication of Social Security numbers, require notification of consumers in the event their personal data is compromised, and restrict the authority of the states in writing their own regulations for data protection. Other bills working their way through the Senate include similar requirements that consumers be notified of data breaches, but they only include civil penalties. The other measures, including one passed by the Senate Commerce Committee, place oversight and enforcement authority with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Critics of the proposed legislation argue that it is being rushed through without proper discussion. CNET, 28 July 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5808894.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 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Hurricanes growing 50%v fiercer due to global warming Hurricanes have grown significantly more powerful and destructive over the last three decades due in part to global warming, MIT professor, Kerry Emanuel, who warns in the journal Nature that this trend could continue. Both the number of days per hurricane and their highest wind speeds have increased by ~50 percent over the last 50 years. * Announced last week: Sony Music, now known as Sony/BMG, will pay a $10 million settlement as per New York's Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer. Memos released in this investigation: "Please be advised that in this week's Jennifer Lopez Top 40 Spin Increase of 236 we bought 63 spins at a cost of $3,600." "Please be advised that in this week's Good Charlotte Top 40 Spin Increase of 61 we bought approximately 250 spins at a cost of $17K" The names were embargoed, but everyone seem to know who they were. * Karl Rove and Robert Novak, whose comments "outed" CIA operative Valerie Plame, managed to get off the hot seat at the expense of Bush's unilateral appointment of now Ambassador Bolton to the United Nations, but Judith Miller still languished in jail for not revealing sources for the story she never wrote. For those who don't remember, you might recognize Bolton if you look closely as a key player in stopping election recounts in the first Bush election. Of course, no one would ever mention such a thing, nor a similar case, in which Judge Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court without any mention of his being the "author of the Saturday Night Massacre" of Watergate fame in which no Attorney General or nominee would fire the prosector, and we went through quite a few that night before Bork was willing to do the dirty work to get the position. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Walter McCormick, Jr, President and CEO, United States Telecom Assn, is criticizing municipal wireless links to the Internet as being too competitive with the businesses of the members of his association. I wonder if automobile and gasoline manufacturers should get on the bandwagon and criticize cities for allowing taxis, busses, trains, and subway systems to compete, thus reducing sales of cars and gas? DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Africa Should Be Self-Sustaining After We Pillaged Rain Forests The information has been hidden for so long that even the Africans seem to have forgotten that the reason for droughts has been the cutting down of the rain forests at the behest of the white world for more exports of lumber and wood products. If you don't understand how rain forests work, just take a look at the early NASA pictures of Africa and you can see the clouds that form over rain forests after the rains, and then are blown further to provide rains to other downwind areas. When the rain forests disappeared, so did the rain, and clearly show with the aid of NASA photographs from before rain forests had been eliminated as an African environmental control system. By the way, no one seems to have learned from this, rain forests are continually being cut down around the world, and more drought is expected, just keep watching the news and try to remember. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Now that Novak and Rove are off the hot seat, will they consider releasing Judith Miller from jail while no one is looking? *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Still Watching China and India In the first half of the year Macao's [China] exports dropped 27% while imports rose 3.8%, suggesting the first possibility that China's import-export ratio may have peaked. The cause of the export drop is largely due to the fact that Macao's exports are largely in textiles, which have been very volatile as per various international trade agreements recently. The UK Office of National Statistics announced that it will be outsourcing a major portion of Britain's population database to India via a 3 year contract with Siemens. Several sources have expressed worry concerning identity theft at the source and say the savings from outsourcing are not in line with the risks to passport holders and others. Of course, the World Trade Organization approves of the deal. Project Director, Carrie Armitage, from The UK Office of National Statistics said in a prepared statement: "It is essential to create new solutions to save time and money and give better service to the public, particularly as there is a growing number of applications for certificates." * [The number of deaths from medical errors in the US is more than the number of deaths from automobile accidents! Why no big movement to save THOSE lives?] [Edupage synopsis] NEW LAW ESTABLISHES DATABASES OF MEDICAL ERRORS A bill signed into law last week mandates the creation of a network of databases that store anonymous information on medical errors. According to a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine, medical errors cost the lives of 98,000 people in the United States each year. Sharing information about those errors is seen by many as a useful step toward preventing similar errors in the future, but many health care providers have been reluctant to share such information for fear of litigation. To that end, the databases mandated by the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 will strip identifying information regarding patients and providers. Reporting information to the databases will be voluntary, and backers of the measure hope that the anonymity provision will encourage providers to submit details of medical errors, allowing others to learn from their mistakes. Dr. J. Edward Hill, president of the American Medical Association, called the new law "the catalyst we need to transform the current culture of blame and punishment into one of open communication and prevention." Federal Computer Week, 1 August 2005 http://govhealthit.com/article89736-07-29-05-Web * 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 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 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 This is number one of a series of five poems from a volume named: "Thoughts of My Exiled Self." The motto for this poetry volume is, "Upon this Word I shall build my life." collage scattered wood shavings fallen feathers waves of sand tossed on a toasty beach undulating pattern shows my heart and eyes ensemble riding on the high tide of beauty without boundaries Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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Lippmann 16348 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/4/16348 ] [Files: 16348.txt; 16348-8.txt; ] Miscellanea, by Juliana Horatia Ewing 16347 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/4/16347 ] [Files: 16347.txt; 16347-8.txt; 16347-h.htm] Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734), by Lewis Theobald 16346 [Commentator: Hugh G. Dick] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/4/16346 ] [Files: 16346.txt; 16346-8.txt; 16346-0.txt; 16346-h.htm] Ellen Walton, by Alvin Addison 16345 [Subtitle: The Villain and His Victims] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/4/16345 ] [Files: 16345.txt; 16345-h.htm] The Waif of the "Cynthia", by Andre Laurie and Jules Verne 16344 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/4/16344 ] [Files: 16344.txt; 16344-8.txt; 16344-h.htm] Beth Woodburn, by Maud Petitt 16343 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/4/16343 ] [Files: 16343.txt; 16343-8.txt; 16343-h.htm] Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons, Friedrich J. 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28 Jul '05

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If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,456,496,299 that would be 16,800 x 64,564,9632 = 1.08 Trillion !!! With 16,800 eBooks online as of July 27, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.92 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,564,9632 x 16,800 x $.92 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,800 eBooks online as of July 27, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.60 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.75 when we had 13,365 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,800 eBooks in 34 Years and 00.75 Months We Averaged ~493 Per Year 41.1 Per Month 1.35 Per Day At 1844 eBooks Done In The 203 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9.1 Per Day 64 Per Week 277 Per Month 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. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] SOFTWARE HIDES PASSWORDS FROM PHISHERS Two professors at Stanford University are set to unveil software designed to foil phishers by scrambling passwords entered into Web sites. John Mitchell and Dan Boneh developed the software, called PwdHash, to deal with the growing problem of Web sites that lure computer users into disclosing personal information. The software creates a unique password for each Web site a user visits. If the user goes to a bogus version of a legitimate Web site, the software creates a separate password, leaving the operator of the bogus site with a password that will not work at the real site. Previously, the pair of professors have written software that tries to identify fraudulent Web sites and notifies the user when such a site is suspected. San Jose Mercury News, 25 July 2005 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12218576.htm PAYING HACKERS FOR BUGS Computer-security firm TippingPoint has begun a program to pay rewards to individuals who report computer vulnerabilities. Not unlike similar programs from other companies, the TippingPoint deal offers a variable amount of money if a reported bug proves valid. The company will use the information to update its own protection software and will notify the maker of the vulnerable product about the problem. David Endler, director of security research at TippingPoint, said the reward program is intended to "reward and encourage independent security research" and to "ensure responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities." Not all security companies believe in bounties. Internet Security Systems, for one, said that paying for such bug reports amounts to having hackers do a company's research for it. An official from Internet Security Systems also noted that the bugs reported in such programs are typically very low-level problems, saying that the more extreme vulnerabilities are worth much more when used for hacking than if turned in to security companies. CNET, 24 July 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-7350_3-5802411.html COMMITTEE MAKES PROGRESS ON HIGHER ED ACT The House Education and the Workforce Committee met again Thursday to review legislation to renew the Higher Education Act, the law governing federal student aid and other higher education programs in the U.S. Education Department. The group adopted a plan to let student borrowers who consolidate several loans choose between a fixed and a variable rate, but retained a maximum interest rate of 8.25 percent. An amendment reduces funds for lenders and guarantee agencies by decreasing the amount of government reimbursement to those companies when students default on their loans. The maximum offered through Pell grants was left unchanged. Inside Higher Ed, 22 July 2005 http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/07/22/hea SENATORS TO ADDRESS SHORTAGE OF SCIENCE GRADS U.S. Senators said they will propose a bill next week to increase federal funding of multidisciplinary research and support for "revolutionizing" manufacturing technologies and processes. The legislation will also increase spending for the Technology Talent Act, which provides grants to colleges and universities to increase the number of science and engineering graduates. The proposed legislation is based on the 2004 National Innovation Initiative Report released by the Council on Competitiveness. That report calls for creating 5,000 new federally funded graduate fellowships, reworking immigration laws, and building 10 "innovation hot spots." Internet News, 21 July 2005 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3521851 BRITAIN TO TRACK, CONTROL TERRORIST WEB SITES Following recent terrorist attacks on London's public transit system, the British government announced plans to tighten oversight on people who run Web sites inciting terrorism. In speaking to Parliament on July 20, Home Secretary Charles Clarke acknowledged that the government would have to "tread carefully" around free speech in instituting changes to the national security policies. Clarke said he intends to draw up a list of unacceptable behaviors, such as preaching, running Web sites, or writing articles intended to provoke terrorism. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and intelligence agencies will be instructed to build a database of people who provoke terrorism. Immigration officers will have access to the database, and the government is planning changes to the law to make it easier to deport religious extremists whose behaviors meet the revised policies. ZDNet, 22 July 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5798787.html LEGAL ONLINE MUSIC ON THE UPSWING According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), more than 180 million songs were legally downloaded in the first half of 2005, with Apple's iTunes the clear leader in the market. Apple recently announced that it had sold 500 million downloads. Subscribers to legal music services reportedly have increased from 1.5 million in January 2005 to 2.2 million by midyear. Although that number doesn't indicate how many songs subscribers have actually obtained, the subscription model is based on monthly fees of $10 to $15. Apple sales are expected to continue increasing as sales of its iPOD music players continue to grow. The Register, 21 July 2005 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/22/ifpi_download_stats/ MCAT, GMAT GO ELECTRONIC [Of course, this eliminates any possibility to essay questions, as were recently decided MUST be includes in the SAT] Officials with the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) announced that both tests will move to electronic-only format. The electronic version of the MCAT is being offered on a trial basis in selected locations currently and will be available widely in 2007. The GMAT has since 1997 been offered as a paper-based or computer-based test, but the paper test will be discontinued next January. The Association of American Medical Colleges said the electronic format of the MCAT will streamline the process, both for those taking the exam and those grading it. The check-in process will be faster and will include security measures to prevent individuals from taking the test in place of someone else. The electronic GMAT is an adaptive test, giving test takers a harder question after they answer a question correctly or an easier one if they answer incorrectly. Officials with the entrance exam for law schools have no plans to switch from their paper-based exam. Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 July 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/07/2005071901t.htm PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUMS DEVELOPING ONLINE DATABASE [Prediction: the higher resolution pictures will cost money] Two prominent photography collections have announced a joint project to create an online database of images from both collections. The George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography said the Photomuse.org site will contain nearly 200,000 images when it is launched, which is projected to be in the fall of 2006. Between them, the two organizations have some of the most complete archives of photos, including work from the early days of cameras. Photos in the database will be assigned a range of keywords so that users can locate images by more than simply photographer's name or title of the photo. A photo of an immigrant couple, for example, will be included in search results for terms such as "immigration," "Italian-Americans," or "Ellis Island." Photos in the database, all of which will be publicly available online, will be of modest resolution, though higher-resolution images will also be available. Organizers still must sort out copyright questions for photos not in the public domain. Owners of some photographs are happy to have the exposure from including their work, while others are concerned about potential lost revenue if their work is included. New York Times, 20 July 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/arts/design/20east.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 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Announced this week: Sony Music, now known as Sony/BMG, will pay a $10 million settlement as per New York's Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer. Memos released in this investigation: "Please be advised that in this week's Jennifer Lopez Top 40 Spin Increase of 236 we bought 63 spins at a cost of $3,600." "Please be advised that in this week's Good Charlotte Top 40 Spin Increase of 61 we bought approximately 250 spins at a cost of $17K" The names were embargoed, but everyone seem to know who they were. * Robert Novak, whose article "outed" CIA operative Valerie Plame, was grilled on CNN last week, but still refuses to even say if he as even been asked to testify in the case that has now sent Judith Miller to jail for not revealing her sources on a story she never even wrote. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Daniel Shorr comments: "The public no longer respects what we do," referring to journalists in general. He reported that he felt "very depressed" about the current situation, and mentioned a public outcry on his behalf that helped save him from a similar contempt charge in 1976, this time by a House Committee, so it was "Contempt of Congress," when he was refusing to reveal his sources when he revealed a secret Congressional Report about the CIA. "Today they would send me to jail without a murmer." * Judith Miller, herself, commented on CNN that this case was not about the issues at hand but rather about "whether there could be a Deep Throat today," a spectre she referred to as being "positively Orwellian." [1984, by Geo. Orwell] * " 'The problem is, however, that we here at The Post believe that reporters are not above the law,' he added. Frank Sesno, a special correspondent for CNN and former Washington bureau chief for the network, said journalists should probably expect the case to affect their daily working lives - though maybe not as profoundly as some have suggested. " 'Will it have a chilling effect? Yes,' said Mr. Sesno, whose network, like Time, is owned by Time Warner. 'Is it going to take anonymous sources out of our orbit and blast them into a distant galaxy? No.' "Just look at the way Newsweek handled the Rove-outed-Plame story in this week's edition. The editors obviously knew they had a hot story and could have pushed it hard. Instead, it's clear that they lawyered it within an inch of its life -- a bunch of legal eagles with faint hearts removing any juice and most of the meat from it." DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Civil Servant = Civil Master When the White House comments on their previous comments, or refuses to, the real meaning of what they are saying: Inoperative = Untenable *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Only the not guilty of releasing information about CIA Operative Valerie Plame will to to jail. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Estimated Book Publishing Industry Sales [United States] 2004 $23,715,410,000 2003 $23,420,576,000 2002 $22,397,072,000 1997 $17,220,710,000 1992 $9,463,386,000 [2005 Bowker Annual, p527] * By the way, if you estimated the value of each book lost from the public domain by the 1998 US Copyright Act at one penny for an entire lifetime of 100 years, the loss would be greater than the entire sales of ALL books in the United States per year. The public domain will always been at least a million books smaller as a result of the 1998 copyright act, removing some 50,000 books per year from the public domain for 20 years. A million pennies is $10,000. Divided among 100 years of a long lifetime = $100 per year. $100 per year for 300 million people = $30,000,000 Much higher than the total books sales reported above. * 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 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 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 The Demon of Poetry poetry has become a demon harrassment is its game thoughts upon thoughts of perfectly shaped fertile colorful rhymes incessantly harrass my spirit and then lose strength, meaning, and color as soon as I grab my pen to pin them down my thoughts, like caterpillars my words, like butterflies the mirror shows a wrinkled forehead and dark, unrested eyes Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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Weekly_July_20.txt **The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, July 20, 2005 PT1** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971****** We have produced ~1800 eBooks in 28 weeks this year! It took us from July 1971 to Jul 1999 to produce our first 1800 eBooks! That's 28 WEEKS as Compared to ~28 Years!!! My apologies, there is still some disagreement on the exact number of books done this week, and therefore this year and in total. I hope to start work examining the numbers next week, after I finish jury duty. I am planning a weekend off, after jury duty, but don't really expect to get it. :-) But I hope to get these numbers worked out by next week, as our people have the numbers, it is just that _I_ have not had time to catch up. Actually, I took the time right now to make the following updates from some older numbers to newer ones: Wk Date old# new# 21,06/01/05, 69 <<== 70 22,06/08/05, 62 <<== 61 23,06/15/05, 48 24,06/22/05, 45 25,06/29/05, 41 26,07/06/05, 74 27,07/13/05, 61 <<== 63 28,07/20/05, 56 and thus, while this Newsletter his going out a few minutes later than usual, it contains these up to date counts: Year to date: 1,796 Grand total: 16,752 My apologies to all concerned for not getting this corrected sooner! Michael Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart(a)pobox.com or gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart(a)pobox.com Please note that we are still in the process of correcting our statistical program data. Last week we subtracted a few that we thought had been in a duplicate count situation, but either that correction didn't stick or some new similar problem has occured. 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With 16,764 eBooks online as of July 20, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.92 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,550,732 x 16,750 x $.92 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,750 eBooks online as of July 20, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.60 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.75 when we had 13,295 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is about 1.5% of the world's population! At 16,750 eBooks in 34 Years and 00.50 Months We Averaged ~492 Per Year 41.0 Per Month 1.33 Per Day At 1800 eBooks Done In The 196 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9.2 Per Day 64 Per Week 280 Per Month 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. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] U.S. LOSING GROUND IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING [No matter how you slice it, in 1970 the United States had over double the share of world college students as it did just three decades later. Over 30% dropped to under 15%. As I have been saying here for years, keep your eye on China, India and then Indonesia.] Confirming the suspicions of many, a new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research indicates that the United States is steadily losing ground to a number of other countries, particularly China, in the number of PhDs it awards in science and engineering fields. In 1970, nearly one-third of the world's college students attended a college or university in the United States, and more than half of the science and engineering PhDs were awarded by U.S. schools. A number of global factors contributed to those numbers, making them artificially high. Since that time, however, higher education around the world, and especially programs in science and engineering, has greatly expanded, leaving the United States with just 14 percent of the world's college students by 2001. According to the report, China could surpass the United States as early as 2010 in the number of science and engineering PhDs it awards. Inside Higher Ed, 15 July 2005 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/07/15/science TEXAS INSTITUTIONS TO DEVELOP JOINT DIGITAL LIBRARY [If this program "will not include books," then how can it be "aimed broadly at public users?"] Rice University and four university systems in Texas have announced a partnership to create a digital repository of online resources aimed broadly at public users. Dubbed the Texas Digital Library, the repository will pool the efforts of Rice University, the Texas A&M University System, the Texas Tech University System, the University of Houston System, and the University of Texas System. Initially, at least, the repository will offer various resources online, including teaching aids and practical information, but will not include books. Fred Heath, vice provost of the University of Texas Libraries, said that the program was conceived as a resource largely for individuals outside the walls of academia, fulfilling in some measure the charge of public higher education to serve the public good. The budget for the project has not yet been finalized. Heath said he hopes the repository will be online by the end of the year, but the timing will depend on having sufficient content available for users. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 July 2005 http://chronicle.com/free/2005/07/2005071301t.htm EC RAIDS INTEL OFFICES As part of an ongoing investigation of antitrust allegations against Intel, the European Commission (EC) this week conducted raids on Intel offices around Europe and on computer makers and retailers. The EC began looking into antitrust concerns more than four years ago, but the investigation was left idle for lack of evidence in 2002. After antitrust authorities in Japan began looking into Intel's business in 2004, the EC reopened its investigation. Intel competitors have charged the chip maker with unfairly using its position in the market to pressure computer manufacturers and retailers to use its products. Critics also charge Intel with abusing a rebate program, which reward computer makers for using its chips. The Japanese Fair Trade Commission in March found Intel guilty of violating that country's regulations with the rebate program. Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has sued Intel for $55 million in Japan and has filed a separate action in U.S. courts. New York Times, 13 July 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/technology/13chip.html and, from one of our readers: MUNICIPAL NETWORK APPROVED FOR LAFAYETTE, LA In the latest battle over municipal broadband networks, voters of Lafayette, Louisiana, approved a bond issue to fund the development of a network that will serve the city's nearly 120,000 residents. As in other localities, the phone and cable companies that serve the area objected to the proposed network, arguing that the city has no business offering a service that competes with those offered by the private sector. In related news, taxi firms across the USA are planning to sue municipalities for providing bus services to residents... [here is the report from Edupage in it's entirety] In the latest battle over municipal broadband networks, voters of Lafayette, Louisiana, approved a bond issue to fund the development of a network that will serve the city's nearly 120,000 residents. As in other localities, the phone and cable companies that serve the area objected to the proposed network, arguing that the city has no business offering a service that competes with those offered by the private sector. City officials argued that they can provide cheaper service to more residents than the cable and phone companies, whom they accused of spending more effort lobbying politicians than offering services the city needs. The issues facing Lafayette are being taken up by a number of other municipalities across the United States, and 14 states have already passed legislation that outlaws or limits cities and towns from providing Internet services that compete with those offered by local companies. At the national level, competing bills have been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, one to explicitly allow municipal networks and the other to ban them. CNET, 17 July 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1033_3-5792387.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 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA In the wake of a United States Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London on eminent domain last week, a California man has proposed that Justice David Souter's New Hampshire home be seized by the state and a hotel be built on the site. Logan Darrow Clements faxed a letter to town officials in Weare, New Hampshire June 28, 2005 that justified the action as such: "The justification for such an eminent domain action is that our hotel will better serve the public interest as it will bring in economic development and higher tax revenue to Weare." Justice Souter, who was in the majority ruling in the Kelo case, has lived at the farmhouse in Weare since he was 11 years old. Clements indicated that it was necessary to build on that location because "it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans." The action has given rise to a great deal of support nationwide, as many are writing to the councilors of the small town of Weare to voice their approval for the proposal. The proposal for the "Lost Liberty Hotel", as it is to be called, features a number of components which seem to focus on the libertarian leanings of its designer. A dining room, called the "Just Desserts Cafe" and a museum based on the "loss of freedom in America" are two such components. Instead of a Gideon's Bible (a standard item placed in most American hotel rooms), each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Sources: Dan Whitcomb "Man to try to seize home of Supreme Court justice". Reuters via Washington Post, June 29, 2005 Ron Strom "Supreme Court Justice faces boot from home?". WorldNetDaily, June 28, 2005 Bob Ellis "Tidal Wave of Support for Souter "Lost Liberty Hotel"". Dakota Voice, June 29, 2005 AP "Proposal: Replace Souter's home with 'Lost Liberty Hotel'". The Boston Globe, June 29, 2005 Logan Darrow Clements "Press Release". Freestar Media, LLC, June 28, 2005 * The above mentioned raids on European Intel offices. and More Kark Rove, there's plenty, choose your own. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK More Kark Rove, there's plenty, choose your own. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK More Kark Rove, there's plenty, choose your own. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK My current prediction is that I will be focused on jury duty. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Supreme Court justices from the Republicans stay there over 20 years. Supreme Court justices from the Democrats stay there about 13 years. Warning: your mileage may vary! [Since WWII, numbers from oyez.org] As reported above: In 1970 United States colleges enrolled over 30% of world students. In 2001 United States colleges enrolled under 15% of world students. * 50 million Americans live in various kinds "gated communites." That means out of just a handful of people, one is most likely living in such an "arranged community." * 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 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 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 collage scattered wood shavings fallen feathers waves of sand tossed on a toasty beach undulating pattern shows my heart and eyes ensemble riding on the high tide of beauty without boundaries Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com This poem is from the poetry volume "Thoughts of My Exiled Self." 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Arago] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/6/16260 ] [Files: 16260-8.txt; 16260-h.htm] The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People 16259 [Author: L. Frank Baum] [Ill.: Frank Ver Beck] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/5/16259 ] [Files: 16259.txt; 16259-h.htm; ] The Squire of Sandal-Side, by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 16258 [Subtitle: A Pastoral Romance] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/5/16258 ] [Files: 16258.txt; 16258-8.txt; 16258-h.htm; ] The Turtles of Tasman, by Jack London 16257 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/5/16257 ] [Files: 16257.txt; 16257-8.txt; 16257-h.htm] The Psychology of Management, by L. M. 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(Clarence Michael James) Dennis 16251 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/5/16251 ] [Files: 16251.txt; 16251-h.htm] Tristan and Isolda, by Richard Wagner 16250 [Subtitle: Opera in Three Acts] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/5/16250 ] [Files: 16250.txt; 16250-8.txt; 16250-h.htm] Bought and Paid For, by Arthur Hornblow 16249 [Subtitle: From the Play of George Broadhurst] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/4/16249 ] [Files: 16249.txt; 16249-8.txt; 16249-h.htm] The Opera, by R.A. Streatfeild 16248 [Subtitle: A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions] [of all Works in the Modern Repertory] [Other: J. A. Fuller-Maitland] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/4/16248 ] [Files: 16248.txt; 16248-8.txt; 16248-h.htm] Famous Stories Every Child Should Know, by Various 16247 [Editor: Hamilton Wright Mabie] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/4/16247 ] [Files: 16247.txt; 16247-8.txt; 16247-h.htm] Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure,Desiderius Erasmus 16246 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/4/16246 ] [Files: 16246.txt; 16246-8.txt; 16246-h.htm] Ten Years' Exile, by Anne Louise Germaine Necker 16245 [Subtitle: Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son] [Author AKA: Baronne (Baroness) de Stael-Holstein] [Editor: Auguste Louis, Baron de Stael-Holstein] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/4/16245 ] [Files: 16245.txt; ] The Turkish Jester, by Nasreddin Hoca 16244 [Subtitle: or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi] [Tr.: George Borrow] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/4/16244 ] [Files: 16244.txt; 16244-h.htm] Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria, by Landsborough 16243 [Full author: William Landsborough] [Subtitle: In search of Burke and Wills] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/4/16243 ] [Files: 16243.txt] The Purpose of the Papacy, by John S. 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Wells[HGW #16][spothxxx.xxx] 1734 May 1999 The Red Cross Girl, by Richard Harding Davis [#11][rdcrgxxx.xxx] 1733 May 1999 The Schoolmistress, et al, by Anton Chekhov [AC#1][tschmxxx.xxx] 1732 May 1999 Sister Songs, by Francis Thompson [F. Thompson #3][ssngsxxx.xxx] 1731 Michael, Brother of Jerry, by Jack London 1730 The Deserted Woman, by Honore de Balzac 1729 [Tr.: Ellen Marriage] Apr 1999 The Odyssey, by Homer, Butcher & Lang Tr[Homer #3][dyssyxxa.xxx] 1728 Apr 1999 The Odyssey, by Homer, Tr. by Samuel butler [dyssyxxx.xxx] 1727 (See also: #348, Collection of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica) Apr 1999 Theaetetus, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #25][thtusxxx.xxx] 1726 [Translated by Benjamin Jowett] Heart of the West, by O. Henry [AKA: William Sidney Porter] 1725 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,453,652,151 that would be 16,694 x 64,536,522 = 1.07 Trillion !!! With 16,694 eBooks online as of July 13, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.93 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,536,522 x 16,694 x $.93 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,694 eBooks onli8e as of July 13, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.60 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.76 when we had 13,225 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,694 eBooks in 34 Years and 00.25 Months We Averaged ~490 Per Year 40.8 Per Month 1.34 Per Day At 1738 eBooks Done In The 189 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9.2 Per Day 64 Per Week 278 Per Month 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. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] IE LOSING FAVOR ON SOME CAMPUSES Frustrated with ongoing concerns about the security of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, IT staff on a number of campuses in the United States have begun to encourage faculty and students to use other browsers instead. In December, officials at Penn State started advising users to opt for either Firefox or Opera. IT staff in the physics department at the University of Florida have recently started urging users to switch to Firefox, saying that all Windows users should install the open source application and define it as the system's default browser. The university-wide Office of Information Technology at Florida now includes Firefox on a CD that is given free to all students. The CD includes network software and antivirus tools and previously offered IE and Netscape Navigator as browser choices. Although the university does not officially endorse any browser, it began adding Firefox to the CDs after many students and faculty had asked about it, according to Marc I. Hoit, interim associate provost for information technology. Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, said that because of Firefox's security and simplicity, he sees the move as beneficial, both for the schools and their users as well as the Internet generally. Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 July 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/07/2005070701t.htm CHOOSING THE RIGHT COMPUTER FOR COLLEGE Computer makers are gearing up for the back-to-school season with packages targeting college students, though the choices included in many of those packages differ from what campus IT departments would prefer. This year's student-focused computer deals lean heavily on multimedia tools and performance. Features such as DVD burners, Microsoft's Windows Media Center Edition operating system, TV tuners, and high-definition audio tools are common in this season's offerings. Colleges and universities tend to be more conservative in their computer specifications, however, preferring operating systems such as Windows XP or Mac OS X, for example. Although few schools have strict requirements for student computers, many have arrangements with particular vendors that offer discounts on their systems. In terms of design, laptops now represent a greater portion of computer sales than desktops. Despite the price advantage of desktops, laptops are hard to turn down for students going from building to building across campus. CNET, 7 July 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5777151.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 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Novak still has to get prime mention. . .not to mention his connection with White House Chief Karl Rove. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Robert Novak, whose article "outed" CIA operative Valerie Plame, was grilled on CNN last week, but still refuses to even say if he as even been asked to testify in the case that has now sent Judith Miller to jail for not revealing her sources on a story she never even wrote. Daniel Shorr comments: "The public no longer respects what we do," referring to journalists in general. He reported that he felt "very depressed" about the current situation, and mentioned a public outcry on his behalf that helped save him from a similar contempt charge in 1976, this time by a House Committee, so it was "Contempt of Congress," when he was refusing to reveal his sources when he revealed a secret Congressional Report about the CIA. "Today they would send me to jail without a murmer." * Judith Miller, herself, commented on CNN that this case was not about the issues at hand but rather about "whether there could be a Deep Throat today," a spectre she referred to as being "positively Orwellian." [1984, by Geo. Orwell] * DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK All that nonsensical rhetoric about Novak not being questioned, followed by total silence when asked for current information. Not to mention implying that reporters think they are above the law. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Mark Felt [Watergate's Deep Throat] will be reported as to have enjoyed the bottle of Champagne President Nixon sent him after President Reagan pardoned him more than any other public event of his entire lifetime. [His assistance to Woodward and Bernstein [Washingto Post] was crucial in forcing President Nixon out of office for his role in the burglary of the Democratic National offices house in the Watergate complex. I have a feelling that the book and movie "All the President's Men" might be selling more copies right now.] In addition, since Mark Felt's only superior officer at the FBI, Director L. Patrick Gray, just died, we might expect a few more details to come out about *his* Watergate connection. Gray was also forced out of office due to his involvement, but I don't think any formal charges were ever filed." *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Book Club Editions 1947 1952 54.4 Million 48.4 Million $65.4 Million $60.3 Million ~$1.20 each ~$1.25 each "Inexpensive paperbound books, chiefly reprints" 95.5 Million 270 Million $14.3 Million $47.0 Million ~$.15 each ~$.17 each Textbooks 139.2 Million 142.0 Million $120.8 Million $152.3 Million $.87 each $1.07 each >From the 1955 "Bowker's Annual" p83 [American Library Annual, is the original name] ["Table reprinted from Publisher's Weekly of March 27, 1954"] [Please note: Book Club Editions reflect retail price, but other books reflect wholesale price, as prices given are from the publishers' reports, thus reflecting their sale prices, which are only the same as the consumer price in the case of Book Club Editions, not counting any taxes and shipping.] [Does anyone know what the markups were back in the day?] * Concert attendence down 12% in 2005. [I know this includes popular music, I don't know if it includes all kinds of concerts] * 50 million Americans live in various kinds "gated communites." That means out of just a handful of people, one is most likely living in such an "arranged community." * 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 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 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 The Demon of Poetry poetry has become a demon harrassment is its game thoughts upon thoughts of perfectly shaped fertile colorful rhymes incessantly harrass my spirit and then lose strength, meaning, and color as soon as I grab my pen to pin them down my thoughts, like caterpillars my words, like butterflies the mirror shows a wrinkled forehead and dark, unrested eyes Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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Kiljander] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/1/16211 ] [Files: 16211-8.txt] La chasse galerie, by Honor Beaugrand 16210 [Subtitle: Lgendes Canadiennes] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/1/16210 ] [Files: 16210-8.txt; 16210-h.htm] Lectures on the English Poets, by William Hazlitt 16209 [Editor: Alfred Rayney Waller and Ernest Rhys] [Subtitle: Delivered at the Surrey Institution] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16209 ] [Files: 16209.txt; ] The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18), by John Dryden 16208 [Subtitle: Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love] [Editor: Walter Scott (1771-1832)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16208 ] [Files: 16208.txt; 16208-8.txt; 16208-h.htm] Adle Dubois, by Mrs. William T. Savage 16207 [Subtitle: A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16207 ] [Files: 16207.txt; 16207-8.txt; 16207-h.htm] Analytical Studies, by Honore de Balzac 16206 [Contains: etext #16205, #16146]] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16206 ] [Files: 16206.txt] The Physiology of Marriage, Complete, by Honore de Balzac 16205 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16205 ] [Contains: etext #5704, #5899, #5958]] [Files: 16205.txt] The Mansion of Mystery, by Chester K. Steele 16204 [Subtitle: Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book] [of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective] ["Chester K. Steele" was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate;] [I am unable to find the true identity of the author.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16204 ] [Files: 16204.txt; 16204-8.txt; ] The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXI, 1624, by Various 16203 [Subtitle: Explorations By Early Navigators, Descriptions Of The] [Islands And Their Peoples, Their History And Records Of] [The Catholic Missions, As Related In Contemporaneous Books] [And Manuscripts, Showing The Political, Economic, Commercial] [And Religious Conditions Of Those Islands From Their] [Earliest Relations With European Nations To The Close Of] [The Nineteenth Century] [Editor: Emma Helen Blair] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16203 ] [Files: 16203.txt; 16203-8.txt; 16203-h.htm] A Voyage to Cacklogallinia, by Captain Samuel Brunt 16202 [Author: Introduction by Marjorie Nicolson] [Subtitle: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and] [Manners of That Country] ["Captain Samuel Brunt" was a psuedonym, but for whom? The subject] [matter and its treatment suggest Swift or Defoe, but most scholars think] [this the work of an unknown imitator.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16202 ] [Files: 16202.txt; 16202-8.txt; 16202-h.htm; ] Parnaso Filipino, by Eduardo Martin de la Camara 16201 [Subtitle: Antologie de Poetas del Archipelago Magellanico] [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16201 ] [Files: 16201-8.txt; 16201-h.htm] The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864, by Various 16200 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/0/16200 ] [Files: 16200.txt; 16200-8.txt; 16200-h.htm] Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Godwin 16199 [Full author: William Godwin] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16199 ] [Files: 16199.txt; 16199-8.txt; 16199-h.htm] Her Own Way, by Clyde Fitch 16198 [Subtitle: A Play in Four Acts] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16198 ] [Files: 16198.txt; 16198-8.txt; 16198-h.htm] One Third Off, by Irvin S. Cobb 16197 [Illustrator: Tony Sarg] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16197 ] [Files: 16197.txt; 16197-8.txt; 16197-h.htm] King Olaf's Kinsman, by Charles Whistler 16196 [Subtitle: A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in] [the Days of Ironside and Cnut] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16196 ] [Files: 16196.txt; 16196-h.htm] A Sketch of the History of Oneonta, by Dudley M. Campbell 16195 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16195 ] [Files: 16195.txt; ] Corporal Sam and Other Stories, by A. T. Quiller-Couch 16194 [Author AKA: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)] [Author AKA: Q] [Contents: Corporal Sam]] [ The Copernican Convoy] [ Red Velvet] [ The Jew on the Moor] [ My Christmas Burglary] [ The Mayor's Dovecot: a Cautionary Tale] [ News From Troy!] [ Colonel Baigent's Christmas] [ Doctor Unonius] [ Mutual Exchange, Limited] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16194 ] [Files: 16194.txt; ] Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850, by Various 16193 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16193 ] [Files: 16193.txt; 16193-8.txt; 16193-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 57, by Various 16192 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.] [1,] [No. 57, December 9, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16192 ] [Files: 16192.txt; 16192-8.txt; 16192-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 56, by Various 16191 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.] [1,] [No. 56, December 2, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16191 ] [Files: 16191.txt; 16191-8.txt; 16191-h.htm] La Divina Comdia: Complete, by Dante Alighieri 16190C [Note: English title is Dante's Divine Comedy, Complete] [Tr.: Ermes Culos] [Language: Friulan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/9/16190 ] [Files: 16190-8.txt; ] La Divina Comdia: Parads, by Dante Alighieri 16189C [Note: English title is Dante's Paradise] [Tr.: Ermes Culos] [Language: Friulan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16189 ] [Files: 16189-8.txt; ] La Divina Comdia: Purgatri, by Dante Alighieri 16188C [Note: English title is Dante's Purgatorio] [Tr.: Ermes Culos] [Language: Friulan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16188 ] [Files: 16188-8.txt; ] La Divina Comdia: Infir, by Dante Alighieri 16187C [Note: English title is Dante's Inferno] [Tr.: Ermes Culos] [Language: Friulan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16187 ] [Files: 16187-8.txt; ] A Little Rebel, by Mrs. Hungerford 16186 [Author AKA: Margaret Wolfe Hamilton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16186 ] [Files: 16186.txt; 16186-8.txt] The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories, by Various 16185 [Editor: American Sunday School Union] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16185 ] [Files: 16185.txt; 16185-8.txt; 16185-h.htm] His Life, by William E. Barton, Theodore G. Soares, and Sydney Strong 16184 [Subtitle: A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16184 ] [Files: 16184.txt; 16184-8.txt; 16184-h.htm] In Indian Mexico (1908), by Frederick Starr 16183 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16183 ] [Files: 16183.txt; 16183-8.txt; 16183-h.htm] The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 16182 [Title: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] [Editor: Robert Browning] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16182 ] [Files: 16182.txt; 16182-8.txt; 16182-h.htm] Young Lion of the Woods, by Thomas Barlow Smith 16181 [Subtitle: A Story of Early Colonial Days] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16181 ] [Files: 16181.txt; 16181-8.txt; 16181-h.htm] Roman Mosaics, by Hugh Macmillan 16180 [Subtitle: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/8/16180 ] [Files: 16180.txt; 16180-8.txt; 16180-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 55, by Various 16179 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol.] [1,] [No. 55, November 25, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16179 ] [Files: 16179.txt; 16179-8.txt; 16179-h.htm] Essays on Art, by A. Clutton-Brock 16178 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16178 ] [Files: 16178.txt; 16178-8.txt; 16178-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 54, November 18, 1897, by Various 16177 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It,] [Vol. 1, No. 54, November 18, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16177 ] [Files: 16177.txt; 16177-8.txt; 16177-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 53, November 11, 1897, by Various 16176 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It,] [Vol. 1, No. 53, November 11, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16176 ] [Files: 16176.txt; 16176-8.txt; 16176-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, November 4, 1897, No. 52, by Various 16175 [Full title: The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It,] [Vol. 1, November 4, 1897, No. 52] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16175 ] [Files: 16175.txt; 16175-8.txt; 16175-h.htm] The Gun-Brand, by James B. Hendryx 16174 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16174 ] [Files: 16174.txt; 16174-8.txt; 16174-h.htm] St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7., by Various 16173 [Full title: St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May,] [1878, No. 7.] [Subtitle: Scribner's Illustrated] [Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16173 ] [Files: 16173.txt; 16173-8.txt; 16173-h.htm] American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889, by Various 16172 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16172 ] [Files: 16172.txt; 16172-8.txt; 16172-h.htm] Our Boys, by Various 16171 [Subtitle: Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16171 ] [Files: 16171.txt; 16171-8.txt; 16171-h.htm; ] Elements of Military Art and Science, by Henry Wager Halleck 16170 [Subtitle: Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification,] [Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff,] [Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To] [The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With] [Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/7/16170 ] [Files: 16170.txt; 16170-8.txt; 16170-h.htm] The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe 16169 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/6/16169 ] [Files: 16169.txt; 16169-8.txt; 16169-0.txt] The Master Mystery, by Arthur B. 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(of 7): Babylon] [Subtitle: The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea,] [Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian] [or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] [Illustrator: George Rawlinson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/6/16164 ] [Files: 16164.txt; 16164-8.txt; 16164-h.htm] The Seven Great Monarchies, Vol 3. (of 7): Media, by George Rawlinson 16163 [Full title: The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World,] [Vol 3. (of 7): Media] [Subtitle: The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea,] [Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian] [or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] [Illustrator: George Rawlinson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/6/16163 ] [Files: 16163.txt; 16163-8.txt; 16163-h.htm] The Seven Great Monarchies, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria, by George Rawlinson 16162 [Full title: The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World,] [Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria] [Subtitle: The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea,] [Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian] [or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] [Illustrator: George Rawlinson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/6/16162 ] [Files: 16162.txt; 16162-8.txt; 16162-h.htm] Seven Great Monarchies, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea, by George Rawlinson 16161 [Full title: The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World,] [Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea] [Subtitle: The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea,] [Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian] [or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] [Illustrator: George Rawlinson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/6/16161 ] [Files: 16161.txt; 16161-h.htm] The Treasury of Ancient Egypt, by Arthur E. P. B. Weigall 16160 [Subtitle: Miscellaneous Chapters on] [Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/6/16160 ] [Files: 16160.txt; 16160-8.txt; 16160-h.htm] American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889, by Various 16159 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/5/16159 ] [Files: 16159.txt; 16159-8.txt; 16159-h.htm] The Facts of Reconstruction, by John R. Lynch 16158 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/5/16158 ] [Files: 16158.txt; 16158-8.txt; 16158-h.htm] Ibong Adarna, by Anonymous 16157 [Subtitle: Corrido at Buhay na Pinagdaanan nang tatlong Principeng] [Magcacapatid na Anac nang Haring Fernando at nang Reina] [Valeriana sa Ca] [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/5/16157 ] [Files: 16157-8.txt; 16157-h.htm] Then Marched the Brave, by Harriet T. Comstock 16156 [Illustrator: Anna S. 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Smith 1670 The Human Drift, by Jack London 1669 Mar 1999 Death of the Laird's Jock, by Walter Scott [WS #8][tpschxxx.xxx] 1668 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,452,222,645 that would be 16,636 x 64,522,226 = 1.07 Trillion !!! With 16,636 eBooks online as of July 06, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.93 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,522,226 x 16,636 x $.93 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,636 eBooks online as of July 06, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.60 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.76 when we had 13,155 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,636 eBooks in 34 Years and 00.00 Months We Averaged ~489 Per Year 40.8 Per Month 1.40 Per Day At 1680 eBooks Done In The 182 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9.2 Per Day 65 Per Week 280 Per Month 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. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] U.S. WILL KEEP CONTROL OF INTERNET ROOT Despite previous statements from U.S. officials that the country would cede its control over the Internet to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a set of principles outlined this week by the Bush administration states that no such transfer of control will take place. The United States maintains control of the "root" system that determines which domains will function, including not just generic domains such as .com and .org but also country-specific domains. The principles, which were announced unexpectedly at a conference in Washington, D.C., are seen by many as a snub of the world community in general and of certain of its critics in particular. Pakistan and Brazil, for example, have long complained that the United States has too much control over the Internet and should give the world's poorer countries the opportunity to be equal participants. ZDNet, 30 June 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5770937.html ONLINE ENROLLMENTS CONTINUE TO RISE Research firm Eduventures has released a new report that puts the number of students enrolled in wholly online courses last year at close to one million, doubling the number from just two years earlier. The report predicts another 500,000 or more students will enroll in online courses over the next two years. The company estimates that by the end of 2005, students enrolled in entirely online courses will constitute more than 15 percent of the total number of students enrolled at degree-granting institutions in the United States. Although much of the growth in online course enrollments is taking place in the for-profit higher education market, nonprofit institutions are closing the gap, according to Sean Gallagher, senior analyst at Eduventures. As more and more nonprofit institutions put their courses online, he said, "the rate at which for-profits are stealing market share is beginning to slow down." Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 June 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/06/2005062802t.htm BRITAIN SEES FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT IN PUBLISHING A new study by the British Library predicts that by the year 2020, 90 percent of newly published work in the United Kingdom will be available electronically. Just 10 percent of works published then will be printed only, and half of those published electronically will also be printed, according to the study. Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the library, said such a "seismic shift" in publishing requires different methods to ensure adequate protection and storage of the electronic materials. The library is developing a digital storage system that it hopes will prove sufficiently robust. Three copies of every item will exist, with one stored off-site for recovery in the event of a catastrophic failure. A spokesperson from the library noted that as published content is increasingly in electronic format, officials must make decisions about what new types of content they will archive, such as Web sites and possibly even blog content. BBC, 29 June 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4633423.stm 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 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA As you may have just heard, London was just reported to have "beaten out" Paris for the 2012 Olympic Games, along with Madrid, Moscow and New York. I listened to a dozen various reports and references to politics and globalization were made, but no one, not one single interviewee or reporter would come out right up front and say the decision was in retaliation for France upsetting the European Union apple cart by voting against the proposed EU Constitution. By the way, the oddsmakers favored Paris, but perhaps didn't take the French vote against the EU seriously, perhap along with French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac denigrating the food in England only yesterday. Apparently the vote was extremely close, and we might never find out just how much politics intervened. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Cooper and Miller Not Off the Hook, Novak Not On It Even though Time magazine handed over the papers in question only a day after last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision, it appears that the White House is still insisting that Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of the New York Times still go to jail, even though no such pressures have ever been put upon Robert Novak, the originator of the story. Sources say that this is simply because Novak is a partisan player, from the side of the Conservatives. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Last night ABC's Nightline special on North Korea said that North Koreans only know about the U.S. and other countries via what their government tells them, without mentioning at all that most U.S. citizens know little or nothing about any other countries, much less about any other U.S. states. Most U.S. citizens still never move outside a 50 mile range of their birthplace and have serious trouble with geography, both inside and outside their own country. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of The New York Times will go to jail rather than divulge their sources, and Time and the New York Times will stand behind them, and so will most of the world press corps. Wow! Was I wrong about THAT one!!! It took only ONE DAY for TIME to cave in !!! Why wasn't Mr. Novak, the columnist who intitially outed Mrs. Valerie Plame ever given this threat of contempt charges? *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The median worth of US black households is 10% of white households. * ALA figures for Library Internet Access [If you think Internet access hasn't spread a lot in 10 years, just think about these American Library Association figures] 99% 2005 95% 2002 21% 1994 Wireless Internet in Libraries 18% 2005 39% 2006 [predicted by FSU study] * 50 million Americans live in various kinds "gated communites." That means out of just a handful of people, one is most likely living in such an "arranged community." * 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 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 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 The Demon of Poetry poetry has become a demon harrassment is its game thoughts upon thoughts of perfectly shaped fertile colorful rhymes incessantly harrass my spirit and then lose strength, meaning, and color as soon as I grab my pen to pin them down my thoughts, like caterpillars my words, like butterflies the mirror shows a wrinkled forehead and dark, unrested eyes Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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34 Years of Project Gutenberg
by Michael Hart 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

34 Years of Project Gutenberg A Trillion eBooks Given Away !!! If our average eBook has reached only 1% of the world population of 6,451,809,157 that would be 16,621 x 64,518,092 = 1.07 Trillion !!! July 4, 2005 marks the completion of the 34th year of Project Gutenberg and the beginning of our 35th year. Here is a very brief review of our current projects: [More information available on request] This past month marked the official beginnings of our new companion, Project Gutenberg of Europe with eBook entries expected in over 100 languages. In the first month we have seen a total of 100 about eBooks and an assortment of 65 articles in total, thus representing 62 Eurasian languages and dialects. Volunteer effort is totally responsible for these, and your assistance to PGE would be greatly appreciated in creating eBook titles from all of the ~120 languages and dialects in which PGE hope to produce eBooks. http://pge.rastko.net [Project Gutenberg Europe] http://dp.rastko.net [Distributed Proofreaders Europe] The original Distributed Proofreaders have now created over 7,000 eBooks and you can volunteer to proofread 1 page or 100 pages or 1,000 at: http://www.pgdp.net At this moment the initial Project Gutenberg site has progressed about 2/3 of the way from 10,000 to 20,000 cataloged items in a range of about 45 languages. http://www.gutenberg.org By July 4, 2006 this total should be at 20,000 items. This total includes nearly 500 entries out of Project Gutenberg of Australia. http://gutenberg.net.au 104 languages are included with the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center. http://www.gutenberg.cc In addition Project Gutenberg of Canada is beginning, Please email: pgcanada(a)lists.pglaf.org To subscribe to the pgcanada list, please visit: http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/pgcanada Project Gutenberg efforts are also starting to get on track in Portugal and The Philippines. We would like to take this opportunity to give thanks to our major download site at ibiblio.org operated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where over a million eBooks per month have been downloaded, month after month, year after year. A year from now we hope you might be able to download 50,000 items via the combined Project Gutenberg sites. * Not Just Downloads, We Also Hand Out Physical Media In addition, we are working on The Million Dollar DVD of which the current prototype contains nearly 26,000 eBooks, and is about 3/4 full. With those additional books we can add in the last 1/4, plus compression of a better variety, we are hoping to put perhaps 40,000 eBooks on one single-sided single-layered DVD that we can encourage people to copy onto $1 blanks. Using about 1/3 of the current average hardback price of ~$75, we can easily count these 40,000 eBooks with the value as $1,000,000. Of course, if you wanted to use "list price" then you could say it was "The Three Million Dollar DVD" {TM}. In addition, just a week ago we received our test DVD for our first double-layered version, which would let us put twice as much on a single disc, and now at the same price per layer as the previous versions. These advances will likely continue until we are able to do a double-sided double-layered DVD containing 155,000, which means that you get a million dollar total value using per book price less than the average paperback, along with a searchable catalog. Last week we gave away 10,000,000 eBooks in Alaska to give a boost to the eBook program of Alaska's Library Association, the University of Alaska, and many other participants in our presentations there. We donated a DVD containing 5,000 eBooks to every one of the Alaska Library Association member libraries!!! We are hoping to do such projects in North Dakota and other far regions, as well as everywhere else we will be asked. Just let us know if you are interested. These are some of the dreams of Project Gutenberg and we would LOVE to include your goals in our projects. * The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation has received official non-profit 501(c)(3) status via the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and is solely supported by your donations. Nearly everyone at PG volunteers, even those few who are on the payroll. For more information, including several ways to donate: http://www.gutenberg.org/donation.html or email donate(a)gutenberg.org As always, our HUGE thanks to the tens of thousands of people who have volunteered with Project Gutenberg and to those who will carry us on into the future. Michael S. Hart Started July 4, 1971 Continuing July 4, 2005

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