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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #3063 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] Feb 2002 The Red Man's Continent, Ellsworth Huntington [redmaxxx.xxx] 3066 [Title: The Red Man's Continent, A Chronicle of Aboriginal America] Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #8, Theodor Mommsen (German) [8mommxxx.xxx] 3065 [Language: German] Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #5, Theodor Mommsen (German) [5mommxxx.xxx] 3064 [Language: German] Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #4, Theodor Mommsen (German) [4mommxxx.xxx] 3063 [Language: German] Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #3, Theodor Mommsen (German) [3mommxxx.xxx] 3062 [Language: German] Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #2, Theodor Mommsen (German) [2mommxxx.xxx] 3061 Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #1, Theodor Mommsen (German) [1mommxxx.xxx] 3060 [Translation: Roman History. We have books 1-5 and 8.] [Language: German] Feb 2002 The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, et al. [iliabxxx.xxx] 3059 [Tr.: Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A.] A Changed Man and Other Tales, by Thomas Hardy 3058 Feb 2002 The Common Edition: New Testament, Trans. Clontz [comedxxx.xxx] 3057C [Tr.: Timothy E. Clontz. This is a translation of the Bible.] Wessex Tales, by Thomas Hardy 3056 Feb 2002 Wood Beyond the World, William Morris [#7][wbydwxxx.xxx] 3055 Feb 2002 Volcanic Islands, by Charles Darwin [Darwin #16][vlcisxxx.xxx] 3054 Feb 2002 Signs of Change, William Morris [#6][sgnchxxx.xxx] 3053 Feb 2002 Works Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies, Plutarch [plutaxxx.xxx] 3052 [Title: The Complete Works Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies] Feb 2002 An Open-Eyed Conspiracy, William Dean Howells [#7][opneyxxx.xxx] 3051 Jan 2002 Notes of a War Correspondent, R. H. Davis [#32][ntwrcxxx.xxx] 3050 Jan 2002 A Group of Noble Dames, Thomas Hardy [#15][nbldmxxx.xxx] 3049 Jan 2002 The Little Duke, Charlotte M. Yonge [#6][ltdukxxx.xxx] 3048 Jan 2002 Life's Little Ironies etc., Thomas Hardy [#14][lfirnxxx.xxx] 3047 Jan 2002 The Land of the Changing Sun, William N. Harben [lcsunxxx.xxx] 3046 Jan 2002 Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope [#9][lacobxxx.xxx] 3045 Desperate Remedies, by Thomas Hardy 3044 Jan 2002 The Quaker Colonies, Sydney G. Fisher [quakexxx.xxx] 3043 Jan 2002 Hispanic Nations of the New World, Wm. R. Shepherd[hispnxxx.xxx] 3042 Jan 2002 The Cleveland Era, Henry Jones Ford [clevexxx.xxx] 3041 [Title: The Cleveland Era, A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics] Jan 2002 The Boss and the Machine, Samuel P. Orth [bossmxxx.xxx] 3040 Jan 2002 Forty-Two Poems by James Elroy Flecker[Flecker #1][42pomxxx.xxx] 3039 Jan 2002 The Armies of Labor, Samuel P. Orth [laborxxx.xxx] 3038 Jan 2002 The Age of Big Business, Burton J. Hendrick [agebbxxx.xxx] 3037 Jan 2002 The Railroad Builders, John Moody [rroadxxx.xxx] 3036 Jan 2002 The Day of the Confederacy, Nathaniel Stephenson [daycoxxx.xxx] 3035 Jan 2002 The Anti-Slavery Crusade, Jesse Macy [ascruxxx.xxx] 3034 Jan 2002 The Passing of the Frontier, Emerson Hough [passfxxx.xxx] 3033 Jan 2002 The Fathers of the Constitution, Max Farrand [fathcxxx.xxx] 3032 Jan 2002 Wild Animals I Have Known, E. T. Seton [Seton #3][wldamxxx.xxx] 3031 Jan 2002 The Tavern Knight, Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini #10][tavrnxxx.xxx] 3030 Jan 2002 Real Soldiers of Fortune, Richard H. Davis [#31][resofxxx.xxx] 3029 Jan 2002 The Peterkin Papers, Lucretia P. Hale [petpaxxx.xxx] 3028 Jan 2002 The Orange Fairy Book, Andrew Lang, Ed. [Lang #29][orangxxx.xxx] 3027 Jan 2002 North of Boston, by Robert Frost [Frost #2][nobosxxx.xxx] 3026 Jan 2002 A Mountain Europa, by John Fox, Jr. [Fox #6][europxxx.xxx] 3025 Jan 2002 The Last Stetson, by John Fox, Jr. [Fox #5][lasttxxx.xxx] 3024 Jan 2002 Faust Part 1, Johann W. Von Goethe [Goethe #32][faustxxx.xxx] 3023 Jan 2002 A Cumberland Vendetta, by John Fox Jr. [Fox #4][cnvenxxx.xxx] 3022 Jan 2002 A Boy's Will, Robert Frost [Frost #1][boyswxxx.xxx] 3021 / Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,543,829,379 that would be 21,211 x 65,438,294 = ~1.39 Trillion !!! With 21,211 eBooks online as of September 13, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.72 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,438,294 x 21,211 x $.72 = ~$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 turning 299.7 million this week!] A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.47 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 21,211 eBooks online as of September 13, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.47 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.58 when we had 17,130 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100 million people. Next Decade's Target: 15% Of The world Population = 1 billion !!! people. At 21,211 eBooks in 35 Years and 02.25 Months We Averaged 603 Per Year 50 Per Month 1.65 Per Day At 3063 eBooks Done In The 252 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 12.2 Per Day 85 per Week 371 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. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. * 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 4th was the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. ***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B*** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] PUBLISHERS GIVE ONLINE MAGAZINES TO COLLEGE STUDENTS The Magazine Publishers of America is sponsoring a program that will provide free online magazine subscriptions to college students in an effort to draw them into magazine readership. Magazine publishers have long dealt with distribution problems for college students, who typically change addresses frequently. At the same time, publishers are working to understand how digital delivery fits into the larger picture of magazine readership. During the program, students at five institutions will have the option of subscribing to a particular publication, a different one for each school. Students who opt in will receive e-mails with links to the online version of the magazine, which is identical to the printed version, including advertisements. Organizers hope that after students graduate and settle down, they will become subscribers and readers of the magazines' print version. Nina Link, president and chief executive of the Magazine Publishers of America, stressed that her organization believes that digital and print versions are both viable but in different contexts. Other publishers agreed. Jack Kliger, president and chief executive of Hachette Filipacchi, said that each medium has advantages over the other but that both are important. New York Times, 7 September 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/business/media/07adco.html NEW KIND OF HIGH SCHOOL OPENS IN PHILADELPHIA The city of Philadelphia and Microsoft teamed up to create a new kind of high school, one that its designers hope will usher in different kinds of learning to better suit the needs of today's companies. About 170 students--mostly black kids from low-income families--make up the first freshman class of the School of the Future. The school brims with technology--students carry laptops instead of books, the entire facility has wireless Internet access, teachers use interactive smart boards--but it also takes a new approach to the structure of a school day. School runs from 9:15 a.m. to 4:19 p.m., approximating a typical office work day, and students have appointments with teachers rather than strict class times. As they move through lessons, students' computers monitor how much they are learning and adjust lessons accordingly. To graduate from the school, which is expected to have 750 students eventually, students must apply to college. Doug Lynch, vice dean of the Graduate School of Education at The University of Pennsylvania, said the project is interesting in that it breaks such new ground but noted that "we have to be careful because you're messing with kids' lives." San Jose Mercury News, 7 September 2006 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15463748.htm LOS ALAMOS LAB COMMISSIONS FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER [I don't know if I mentioned it here, but I have been predicting that game chips would show up in supercomputers, simply because they have so much bang for the buck] The U.S. Department of Energy has commissioned IBM to build a supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that will be as much as four times faster than the Blue Gene/L at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, currently the world's fastest supercomputer. The new computer, dubbed Roadrunner, will use 16,000 standard processors and 16,000 so-called cell processors, which were designed for Sony's PlayStation 3 game console. Because each cell consists of eight individual processors, Roadrunner will be able to achieve its speed using far fewer processors than comparable systems. Other efforts have focused on using the power of cell processors to solve large computing problems. Researchers at Stanford University in August said they were working on a system that would allow PS3 game consoles to function as a large, distributed-computing system. According to the researchers, 10,000 game consoles would provide roughly 1 petaflop of processing--the amount expected from Roadrunner. The Stanford researchers said they hope eventually to recruit 100,000 game consoles to their project. BBC, 7 September 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5322704.stm COLLEGE PRESIDENTS EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR OPEN ACCESS The presidents of 53 liberal arts colleges have signed a letter supporting the Federal Public Research Access Act, which would require free and public access to research funded by the federal government. Librarians have for years protested the steeply rising costs of academic journals, noting that each year they can afford fewer of the resources that students and faculty need. Supporters of the legislation argue it would level the playing field for researchers and would appropriately allow public access to publicly funded science. Publishers of academic journals and the scholarly societies they represent lambasted the legislation, saying it would undermine peer review and the quality of the journals. Allan Adler of the Association of American Publishers said the legislation is "short-sighted" and is simply an attempt by librarians to obtain for free what they have always paid for. The academic community, however, seems inclined to disagree. The new letter of support from college presidents follows similar support in July from the provosts of 25 research universities. According to the new letter, which was drafted by a library group at Oberlin College, the legislation would "democratize access to research information" and would "benefit education, research, and the general public." Inside Higher Ed, 6 September 2006 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/06/access SOUTH KENT COLLEGE DISTRIBUTES IPODS Students at South Kent College in Dover, England, will be given free iPod Nanos that school officials hope will be used to listen to missed lectures. Josh Coleman, assistant principal at the school, said that the idea to provide iPods was based on examples in the United States and Australia for how to foster new kinds of learning. He said he does not expect attendance in classes to decline as a result. Some critics said the scheme is merely a gimmick to attract students. Coleman rejected that notion, saying the program will provide long-term benefits to the institution. Nick Seaton, chairman of an organization called Campaign for Real Education, characterized the iPods as bribes, saying they undercut the idea that education is valuable. "Youngsters should want to take the courses for their own sake if they are worthwhile," he said. Giving out iPods to students is "a scandalous waste of taxpayers' money," Seaton concluded. BBC, 6 September 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/5319258.stm DIGITAL DIVIDE REMAINS FOR STUDENTS According to new data from the National Center for Education Statistics, despite an overall increase in computer usage among students, minorities continue to trail in their levels of Internet access. The data, gathered from a 2003 survey, indicate that while two-thirds of white students use the Internet, just 47 percent of black students and 44 percent of Hispanic students do so. Due to increasing computer access at schools, the gaps are lower during the school day. At home, however, 54 percent of white students have Internet access, compared to 27 percent of black and 26 percent of Hispanic students. Mark Lloyd, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, expressed strong concern about the persistence of the digital divide. "This creates incredible barriers for minorities," he said, "[narrowing] their ability to even think about the kind of work they can be doing." San Jose Mercury News, 5 September 2006 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15444856.htm GOOGLE LAUNCHES NEWS ARCHIVE SEARCH Google is launching a new service that provides access to archives of news articles from several major organizations. With the new Google News Archive Search, users can perform keyword searches and see excerpts from the results of articles provided by participating publishers. From there, users can click through to the archival version, typically hosted by the content owners, where the full text of the article is available, sometimes for free and other times for a fee. Participating in the service are the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, LexisNexis, and others. The content in the service in some cases dates back to the 19th century and earlier, giving researchers access to sources that formerly would have been difficult or impossible to locate. Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of SearchEngineWatch, said the service could provide new revenue for news organizations through fees for archival stories. Wall Street Journal, 6 September 2006 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115751253850554792.html CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES FREE WI-FI FOR SILICON VALLEY A group of companies calling itself Silicon Valley Metro Connect has announced a vast Wi-Fi network covering large portions of Silicon Valley. The network will be the result of a solicitation from the San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority, an agency representing cities and counties in Silicon Valley. The agency selected Metro Connect's bid for the project, though the deal allows cities to work with other contractors. Metro Connect includes IBM, Cisco Systems, Azulstar Networks, and the nonprofit SeaKay. The network, which is expected to begin operating as early as next year, will offer speeds of up to 1 Mbps for free or higher speeds for a fee. Nearly 2.5 million residents of an area covering 1,500 square miles will be able to access the network outside, though they will need to purchase boosters to use the signal inside homes or offices. CNET, 5 September 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-6112569.html To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV@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 *QUOTATION OF THE WEEK "It is a part of the acceptance of the rule of law that the courts will be able to exercise jurisdiction over the executive. Otherwise the conduct of the executive is not defined and restrained by law. It is because of that principle, that the USA, deliberately seeking to put the detainees beyond the reach of the law in Guantanamo Bay, is so shocking an affront to the principles of democracy. That we disagree on this issue does not detract from the fact that the USA is a close and staunch ally of the UK. Without independent judicial control, we cannot give effect to the essential values of our society. To give effect to our democratic values needs the participation of executive, legislature, and judiciary together. How well they do it, as in every endeavour, depends on the quality of the individual decisions each branch of the state takes. The ability to give effect to these values is not just the morally correct position to take, though I believe it is most certainly that. It is also a vital part of providing security for our peoples." Head of the British Judicary, with permission of Prime Minister [Just this morning on the BBC] / History is replete with examples of such lopsided relationships within nations or between one nation and another. Here in southern Africa, there were cases of this nature in the former white-minority led countries of Rhodesia and South Africa, and between these countries and their majority-ruled neighbours. The minority governments of the two countries were rich and militarily powerful compared to their black subjects and the governments of their majority-ruled neighbouring countries. It was, therefore, not surprising that the governments of the two white-ruled states reacted so arrogantly to the legitimate demands of their black populations and the criticisms of their neighbouring states. They saw themselves surviving indefinitely and comfortably, so long as they did enough to extinguish the aspirations of their black populations and inflicted painful-enough military punishments on their troublesome, black-ruled neighbours. Needless to say, this was not to be. Nelson Mandela *STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, heard from many locales around the world, even those most economically powerful and with the highest growth rates. *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Dick Cheney on the Sunday morning news program Meet The Press: About the Iraq War being the proper response to 9/11: "If we had it to do over again, we'd do exactly the same thing." "Exactly the same thing?" replied host tim Russert, giving V.P. Cheney a graceful way out. "Yes, sir," was Cheney's reply. Later in the same program he said he would do things differently. / President Bush also rang the same note when he said about doing the right thing: "I am often asked why we are in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks, the answer is that the regime of Saddam Hussein was a clear threat." This literally only days after gov't reports that there was no connection, no weapons of mass destruction, etc. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Iraq will continue to be a quagmire, simply because there is no plan, and never was, just like Korea in 1950 and Viet Nam in in the 1960's and 1970's. The Iraq War will be shown to already have cost $1T. 9/11 will be shown to have already cost $1 Trillion, too. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK While al this was going on, the number of military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan passed 3,000, more than 9/11. * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population estimates just passed 299 million, though many say estimations of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers now being mentioned so much in the news. Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. [This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.] "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. To subscribe to any (or to unsubscribe or adjust your subscription preferences), visit the Project Gutenberg mailing list server: http://lists.pglaf.org If you are having trouble with your subscription, please email the list's human administrators at: help@pglaf.org