Weekly_July_04.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, July 04, 2006 PT1 ****eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971***** !!! SPECIAL 35TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION !!! This Newsletter contains a list of the various 35th anniversary events. Normally the Newsletter comes out on Wedneday, but we're doing this one a little bit early for the occasion, in fact, _I_ will be the best man, at my best friend's wedding during this period, so I am writing this in plenty of advance time, and am actually going to mail this advance copy to everyone nearly a week early in the hopes that some of our editors I am hoping will take over the Newsletter will find the time that week to put in the actual numbers, the following are just my own estimates, but I am updating them constantly. The estimates I am using for July 5 are for 100 eBooks per week for the last two weeks. We had 102 last week-- so I am counting on 98 this week. HEADLINES Original Project Gutenberg Newsletter Count Hits 20,000 !!!!!!! [This includes PG Australia, PG Europe, and PrePrints Section]; plus over 75,000 at the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, the grand total of all sites is now nearly 100,000. The PGCC has a number of eBook collections donated from about 100 eLibraries. * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart@pobox.com or gbnewby@pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart@pobox.com * Please note these numbers are my guesses I am making a week in advance. *eBook Milestones* ~20,200 eBooks As Of Today!!! 20,200 at www.gutenberg.org[+98] 750 Australian eBooks [+?] [Included in above line] 350 Gutenberg Europe [+?] [Included[ 400 PG PrePrint Site [+?] [Included] 98 Total of Four Sites 20,200 Grand Total of Four Fites ~100,000 Including The PG Consortia Center's 75,000+ 20,000 eBooks Over A 35 Year Period of 1971-2006 Yields 580 per year 48 per month 1.58 per day 20,000 eBooks Over A 15 Year Period of 1991-2006 Yields [Counting from 75 ebooks to 20,075 eBooks June 29] 1333 per year 111 per month 3.65 per day 20,000 eBooks Over A 12 Year Period of 1994-2006 Yields [Counting from 200 ebooks to 20,200 eBooks July 5] 1667 per year 139 per month 4.56 per day ~16,500 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~250 eBooks per Month for ~66.00 Months ~8,700 total from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [Including PG Australia] We Are Averaging ~340 eBooks Per Month This Year [Including PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints] All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 78 eBooks Per Week In 2006 ~98? This Week [The above changes due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] [Now including totals from Australia, Europe and PrePrints] [Apologies, it will take a while to integrate everything not all statistics may be totally equalized yet] [PGEu Statistics Are Counted Monthly Not Weekly] [Daily PGEu stats at http://dp.rastko.net/default.php] [Daily DP stats at http://www.pgdp.net] BTW, we just started a new "PrePrints" site at PG, so if you come across eBooks that aren't ready for primetime, but that should be saved for upgrading, we have a place to put them. http://preprints.readingroo.ms/ new site * On the originating Project Gutenberg eBook sites: It took ~32 years, 1971 to 2003, to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, 2003 to 2006, for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years, 1993 to 2003, to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.75 years, 10/03 to 07/06, to go from 10,000 to 20,000 * It took ~12.8 years, Oct. 1993 to Jun. 2006 from 85 to 20,085 It took 12.0 years, July 1994 to July 2006, from 200 to ~20,200 * Plus over 75,000 eBooks at the PG Consortia Center http://www.gutenberg.cc * ***Introduction This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter ***Progress Report, including Distributed Proofreaders In the first 06.00 months of this year, we produced ~2,052 new eBooks. It took us from Jul 1971 to Dec 1997 to produce our first 2,052 eBooks! That's 26 WEEKS as Compared to ~28 Years!!! 98 New eBooks This Week 108 New eBooks Last Week 239 New eBooks This Month [Jun] 289 Average Per Month in 2006 266 Average Per Month in 2005 Counting 216 PGEu 248 Average Per Month in 2005 Not Counting PGEu 336 Average Per Month in 2004 355 Average Per Month in 2003 203 Average Per Month in 2002 103 Average Per Month in 2001 2052 New eBooks in 2006 3186 New eBooks in 2005 Counting 216 PGeu > 2970 New eBooks in 2005 Not Counting PGEu 4049 New eBooks in 2004 4164 New eBooks in 2003 2441 New eBooks in 2002 1240 New eBooks in 2001 ==== 17,152 New eBooks Since Start Of 2001 That's Only 66.00 Months! ~260 books per month! 20,200 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks 16,633 eBooks This Week Last Year ==== 3,567 New eBooks In Last 12 Months [Incl. PGAu, PGEu & PrePrints] 750 eBooks From Project Gutenberg of Australia [This does NOT include PGAu eBooks posted at the U.S. site: www.gutenberg.org ] 350 eBooks From Project Gutenberg of Europe 400 Entry From Project Gutenberg PrePrints ~75,000 Project Gutenberg Consortia Center http://www.gutenberg.cc You may also want to look at Project Runeberg [Scandinavian] http://runeberg.org * Project Gutenberg began operation on July 4, 1971 Project Runeberg began operation on December 13, 1992 Distributed Proofreaders began October 22, 2000 [Became an official PG-US site in 2002] Project Gutenberg of Australia began in August, 2001 The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center started in 1997] [Became an official PG-US site in 2003] Project Gutenberg of Europe started January 12, 2004 [Posted first books February 26, when we met in Brussels to address people at the European Union Parliament. Project Gutenberg PrePrints Started January 25, 2006 http://preprints.pglaf.org/ old http://preprints.readingroo.ms/ new * PROJECT GUTENBERG DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS UPDATE: Since starting production in October 2000, Distributed Proofreaders has contributed 8,378 Books to Project Gutenberg. 30 added this week. For more complete DP statistics, visit: http://www.pgdp.net/c/stats/stats_central.php * Check out our website at www.gutenberg.org, and see below to learn how you can get INSTANT access to our eBooks via FTP servers even before the new eBooks listed below appear in our catalog. eBooks are posted throughout the week. You can even get daily lists. 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PGCC's current eBook and eDocument Collections listings of 18 collections. . .with this week's listing as: Alex-Wire Tap Collection, 2,036 HTML eBook Files Black Mask Collection, 12,000 HTML eBook Files The Coradella Bookshelf Collection, 141 eBook Files DjVu Collection, 272 PDF and DJVU eBook Files eBooks@Adelaide Collection, 27,709 eBook Files Himalayan Academy, 3,400 HTML eBook Files Internet Archive ~30,000 eBook Files [In Progress] <<< Literal Systems Collection, 68 MP3 eBook Files Logos Group Collection, ~34,000 TXT eBook Files Poet's Corner Poetry Collection, 6,700 Poetry Files Project Gutenberg Collection, 15,035 eBook Files PGCC Chinese eBook Collection ~300 eBook files <<< Note Name Change Renaisscance Editions Collection, 561 HTML eBook Files Swami Center Collection, 78 HTML eBook Files Tony Kline Collection, 223 HTML eBook Files Widger Library, 2,600 HTML eBook Files CIA's Electronic Reading Room, 2,019 Reference Files =======Grand Total Files=========~137,142 Total Files===== Average Size of the Collections 8,067.18 Total Files These eBooks are catalogued as per the instructions of their donors: some are one file per book; some have a file for each chapter; and some even have a file for a single page or poem. . .or are overcounted for reasons I have not mentioned. . .each of which could cause the overcounting or duplication of numbers. If we presume 2 out of 3 of these files are overcounts, that leaves a unique book total of ~45,714 Unique eBooks If we presume 3 out of 4 of these files are overcounts, that leaves a unique book total of ~34,286 Unique eBooks The new overall collection size, which has reduced the need to account for duplications and eBooks with files for each chapter, etc. ~75,000 Unique eBooks *** Please also note that over 25,000 eBooks are listed via The Online Books Page, of which over 5,700 are from PG. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ * Statistical Review In the 26 weeks of this year, we have produced 2052 new eBooks. It took us from 07/71 to 01/00 to produce our FIRST 2052 eBooks!!! That's 26 WEEKS as Compared to ~28 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2052 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 are now in new catalog format] Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 1 [01frdxxx.xxx] 2101 Bibeln, Gamla och Nya Testamentet 2100 [Language: Swedish] (Note: The Bible, in Swedish) Mar 2000 History of the Moravian Church, by J. E. Hutton [hotmcxxx.xxx] 2099 Mar 2000 A Thief in the Night, by E. W. Hornung[Hornung #4][thfntxxx.xxx] 2098 Mar 2000 The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#16][sign4xxx.xxx] 2097 Mar 2000 A Smaller History of Greece, by William Smith [asmhgxxx.xxx] 2096 Mar 2000 Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States, by Brown [clotlxxb.xxx] 2095 (See also #2046 and #241) Mar 2000 The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 4 [4sdmsxxx.xxx] 2094 Mar 2000 The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 3 [3sdmsxxx.xxx] 2093 Mar 2000 The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 2 [2sdmsxxx.xxx] 2092 [Reserved: The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 1 2091* Feb 2000 Tao Hua Yuan Ji, by Tao YuanMing [Chinese/English][peachxxx.xxx] 2090 [AKA: Peach Blossom Shangri-la, by Tao YuanMing [short]] [Language: Chinese] Feb 2000 The Reception of the Origin of Species, T H Huxley[oroosxxx.xxx] 2089 Feb 2000 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II [#8][2llcdxxx.xxx] 2088 [Edited by Francis Darwin] Feb 2000 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I [#7][1llcdxxx.xxx] 2087 [Edited by Francis Darwin] Feb 2000 The Slowcoach, by E. V. Lucas [slwchxxx.xxx] 2086 Feb 2000 Cyropaedia, by Xenophon [Tr.: H. G. Dakyns] #14[cyrusxxx.xxx] 2085 The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler 2084 Feb 2000 In Search of the Castaways, by Jules Verne [JV#11][cstwyxxx.xxx] 2083 Feb 2000 Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by Lamothe-Langon[dbrryxxx.xxx] 2082 [by Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon, using a pseudonym] [Introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A.] (Note: Plain text in dbrry11.*; 8-bit in dbrry10.*) Feb 2000 The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[#7][blthdxxx.xxx] 2081 Feb 2000 Later Poems & Flower of the Mind, by Alice Meynell[2almyxxx.xxx] 2080 Feb 2000 Memoirs of a Minister of France, by Stanley Weyman[moamfxxx.xxx] 2079 [Title: From the Memoirs of a Minister of France][Weyman #4] Thais, by Anatole France 2078 [Translator: Robert B. Douglas] The Nabob, by Alphonse Daudet 2077 [Translator: W. Blaydes] The Civilization Of China, by Herbert A. Giles 2076 Feb 2000 Crotchet Castle, by Thomas Love Peacock[Peacock#2][ccstlxxx.xxx] 2075 Feb 2000 Civilization of Renaissance in Italy, J Burckhardt[coriixxx.xxx] 2074 Feb 2000 The Valet's Tragedy et al, by Andrew Lang[Lang#22][vlttrxxx.xxx] 2073 [Contains stories about The Man In The Iron Mask, etc. . . .] Michael, by E. F. Benson 2072 Stories By English Authors: Germany, by Various 2071 Contains: The Bird On Its Journey, by Beatrice Harraden Koosje: A Study Of Dutch Life, by John Strange Winter A Dog Of Flanders, by Ouida Markheim, by R. L. Stevenson Queen Tita's Wager, by William Black Feb 2000 To The Last Man, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #12][lstmnxxx.xxx] 2070 Feb 2000 The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Pinches [?rbaaxxx.xxx] 2069 Keziah Coffin, by Joseph C. Lincoln 2068 Beasts, Men and Gods, by Ferdinand Ossendowski 2067 [Translator: Lewis Stanton Palen] Feb 2000 Wildfire, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #11][wldfrxxx.xxx] 2066 Feb 2000 Dick Hamiliton's Airship, by Howard R. Garis [arshpxxx.xxx] 2065 A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, by Samuel Johnson 2064 [Title: A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Feb 2000 The Trail of the White Mule, by B.M. Bower[BMB#11][tttwmxxx.xxx] 2063 Feb 2000 All For Love, by John Dryden [John Dryden #1][al4lvxxx.xxx] 2062 Feb 2000 Shorter Prose Pieces by Oscar Wilde[Oscar Wilde22][wldspxxx.xxx] 2061 The History of the Caliph Vathek, by William Beckford 2060 Feb 2000 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr[lsokcxxx.xxx] 2059 Feb 2000 Messer Marco Polo, by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx] 2058 Feb 2000 The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey [Grey #10][plnsmxxx.xxx] 2057 Feb 2000 Life of William Carey, by George Smith [wmcryxxx.xxx] 2056 Feb 2000 Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana [2yb4mxxx.xxx] 2055 Jan 2000 Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe[#4] German[iphgnxxx.xxx] 2054 [Language: German] Jan 2000 The American Republic, by O. A. Brownson [amrepxxx.xxx] 2053 Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Daniel Defoe 2052 Dickory Cronke, by Daniel Defoe 2051 [Subtitle: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder] Jan 2000 Old John Brown, by Walter Hawkins [ojbrnxxx.xxx] 2050 Jan 2000 Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion, by Wm Hazlitt[nwpygxxx.xxx] 2049 Jan 2000 The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by W. Irving #5[sbogcxxx.xxx] 2048 Jan 2000 Stories of Modern French Novels: Scribners Ed. [sbmfaxxx.xxx] 2047 (This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library) Contains: Victor Cherbuliez: Count Kostia Paul Bourget: Andre Cornelis Anonymous: The Last of the Costellos; Lady Betty's Indiscretion Jan 2000 Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, by Wm. Brown[clotlxxa.xxx] 2046 (See also #241) Jan 2000 My Memories of Eighty Years, by Chauncey M. Depew [depewxxx.xxx] 2045 Jan 2000 The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams [eduhaxxx.xxx] 2044 Jan 2000 Stories by Modern American Authors: Scribners Ed.[sbmaaxxx.xxx] 2043 (This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library) Contains: F. Marion Crawford: By The Waters Of Paradise Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Shadows On The Wall Melville D. Post: The Corpus Delicti Ambrose Bierce: An Heiress From Redhorse; The Man And The Snake Edgar Allan Poe: The Oblong Box; The Gold-Bug Washington Irving: Wolfert Webber, Or Golden Dreams; Adventure Of The Black Fisherman Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland'S Madness Fitzjames O'Brien: The Golden Ingot; My Wife'S Tempter Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Minister'S Black Veil Anonymous: Horror: A True Tale Jan 2000 Something New, by P.G. Wodehouse [P.G.Wodehouse#2][smtnwxxx.xxx] 2042 Jan 2000 The House of the Wolf, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#3][hwolfxxx.xxx] 2041 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, by Thomas De Quincey 2040 Jan 2000 Evangeline, by Henry W. Longfellow [Longfellow #6][vnglnxxx.xxx] 2039 (See also #1365) (8-bit version in:) [vnglnxxi.xxx] Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English, Ed. by Hawthorne 2038 [Title: The Lock and Key Library, Classic Mystery and Detective Stories] [Editor: Julian Hawthorne] Contents: Rudyard Kipling My Own True Ghost Story The Sending of Dana Da In the House of Suddhoo His Wedded Wife A. Conan Doyle A Case of Identity A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League Egerton Castle The Baron's Quarry Stanley J. Weyman The Fowl in the Pot Robert Louis Stevenson The Pavilion on the Links Wilkie Collins The Dream Woman Anonymous The Lost Duchess The Minor Canon The Pipe The Puzzle The Great Valdez Sapphire Novel Notes, by Jerome K. Jerome 2037 Jan 2000 Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, by Samuel Baker[8yearxxx.xxx] 2036 Stories by English Authors: Orient, by Various 2035 Contains: The Man Who Would Be King, by Rudyard Kipling Tajima, by Miss Mitford A Chinese Girl Graduate, by R. K. Douglas The Revenge Of Her Race, by Mary Beaumont King Billy Of Ballarat, by Morley Roberts Thy Heart's Desire, by Netta Syrett Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since, by Sir Walter Scott 2034 Jan 2000 The Unknown Guest, by Maurice Maeterlinck [ungstxxx.xxx] 2033 [Author: Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck] Jan 2000 Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard/Eleanor Farjeon[mpnaoxxx.xxx] 2032 Jan 2000 Lock and Key Library, Magic & Real Detectives [#2][2lckyxxx.xxx] 2031 (This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library) Contains: P. H. Woodward Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department An Erring Shepherd An Aspirant for Congress The Fortune of Seth Savage A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified An Old Game Revived A Formidable Weapon Andrew Lang Saint-Germain the Deathless The Man in the Iron Mask The Legend The Valet's History The Valet's Master Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly M. Robert-Houdin [After whom Harry Houdini named himself] A Conjurer's Confessions Self-Training "Second Sight" The Magician Who Became an Ambassador Facing the Arab's Pistol David P. Abbott Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled A Doctor of the Occult How the Tricks Succeeded The Name of the Dead Mind Reading in Public Some Famous Exposures Hereward Carrington More Tricks of "Spiritualism" "Matter through Matter" Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology Anonymous How Spirits Materialize Legends Of Babylon And Egypt, by Leonard W. King 2030 [Subtitle: In Relation To Hebrew Tradition] Jan 2000 Lahoma, by John Breckinridge Ellis [lahomxxx.xxx] 2029 The Yellow Claw, by Sax Rohmer 2028 Jan 2000 Tartuffe, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere [#1] [trtffxxx.xxx] 2027 The Coming Conquest of England, by August Niemann 2026 [Translator: J. H. Freese] Jan 2000 My Lady Caprice, by Jeffrey Farnol [lcprcxxx.xxx] 2025 Jan 2000 Diary of a Pilgrimage, by Jerome K. Jerome[JKJ#17][dypgmxxx.xxx] 2024 Jan 2000 Malvina of Brittany, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #16][mlvbtxxx.xxx] 2023 Contains: Malvina of Brittany The Street of the Blank Wall His Evening Out The Lesson Sylvia of the Letters The Fawn Gloves Angling Sketches, by Andrew Lang 2022 Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, by Joseph Conrad 2021 Jan 2000 Tarzan the Terrible,Edgar R. Burroughs [Tarzan #8][tzntrxxx.xxx] 2020 [Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs] Jan 2000 The Bat, by M. R. Rinehart & Avery Hopwood [MRR13][thbatxxx.xxx] 2019 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]##### Dec 1999 The Library, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #20][lbrryxxx.xxx] 2018 Dec 1999 The Dhammapada, Translated by F. Max Muller [dhmpdxxx.xxx] 2017 Dec 1999 The 1998 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook #8][No#7][world98x.xxx] 2016 Dec 1999 A Miscellany of Men, by G. K. Chesterton [GKC #13][miscyxxx.xxx] 2015 The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes 2014 Dec 1999 The Pit Prop Syndicate, by Freeman Wills Croft [ptprpxxx.xxx] 2013 The Children, by Alice Meynell 2012 Dec 1999 Rudder Grange, by Frank R. Stockton [Stockton #4][rgrngxxx.xxx] 2011 Dec 1999 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [Darwin #6][adrwnxxx.xxx] 2010 Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos6xx.xxx] 2009 Dec 1999 Mazelli, and Other Poems, by George W. Sands[GS#1][mzllixxx.xxx] 2008 Dec 1999 We Two, by Edna Lyall [wetwoxxx.xxx] 2007 Dec 1999 A Fair Penitent, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #23][frpntxxx.xxx] 2006 Dec 1999 Piccadilly Jim, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse [#1][pccjmxxx.xxx] 2005 Dec 1999 "Pigs is Pigs," by Ellis Parker Butler [pgpgsxxx.xxx] 2004 Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], by C. S. Lewis [spbndxxx.xxx] 2003 [Title: Spirits In Bondage, A Cycle Of Lyrics] [Author Note: C. S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton] Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2002 [Reserved: 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke] 2001* Dec 1999 Don Quijote, by Cervantes in Spanish .txt & .htm [2donqxxx.xxx] 2000 [Language: Spanish] Dec 1999 Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley #1] [crmylxxx.xxx] 1999 Dec 1999 Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche #1 [spzarxxx.xxx] 1998 [Tr.: Thomas Common] Dec 1999 Paradise, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [3ddcnxxx.xxx] 1997 [Tr.: Charles Eliot Norton] Dec 1999 Purgatory, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [2ddcnxxx.xxx] 1996 [Tr.: Charles Eliot Norton] Dec 1999 Hell/Inferno, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [1ddcnxxx.xxx] 1995 [Tr.: Charles Eliot Norton] Adventures among Books, by Andrew Lang 1994 Dec 1999 Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #15] [tldspxxx.xxx] 1993 Dec 1999 Travels in England, and Fragmenta Regalia [trvfgxxx.xxx] 1992 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,525,015,623 that would be 20,200 x 65,250,156 = ~1.31 Trillion !!! With 20,200 eBooks online as of July 04, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.76 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,250,156 x 20,200 x $.76 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] [By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.] [Just turned 299 million last week!] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.50 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 20,200 eBooks online as of July 04, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.50 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.60 when we had 16,633 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 20,200 eBooks in 35 Years We Averaged 577 Per Year 48 Per Month 1.58 Per Day At 2052 eBooks Done In The 182 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 11.3 Per Day 79 per Week 342 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a 300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M, just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M. 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