Weekly_June_21.txt ***The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, June 21, 2006 PT1*** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** A Special Abbreviated Edition of The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter This combines portions of Part 1a and Part 1b [You might want to keep this one for reference, as it explains a number of questions frequently raised about how Project Gutenberg works.] EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! On Midsummer's Day, 2006, the number of eBooks originated by and for Project Gutenberg reached 20,000 As we approach the 35th anniversary of the start of Project Gutenberg, a number of milestones are being passed. Project Gutenberg of Australia Passes 700 eBooks! Project Gutenberg of Europe Passes 300 eBooks! Distributed Proofreaders Passes 8,600 eBooks! *eBook Milestones* 20,000 eBooks As Of Today At These Four PG Sites 20,000 Project Gutenberg [+111] Grand Total [Automated] 710 Australian eBooks [+42] [Included in above line] 318 Gutenberg Europe [+0] [Including after July 4] 368 PG PrePrint Site [ +0] [Included in above total] 109 Total New Books This Week 19,995 Grand Total of all four sites [Four more since then] 20,000 [via our automated program] [Please note we have several counting methods, and they often differ by several book that we have to hunt down by hand to reconcile.] These figures as of 6:21 PM CDT, we have had several more entries since. ***572 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 16,832 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~262 eBooks per Month for ~64.50 Months 1,852 New eBooks in 2006 at These Four Sites 40 New eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders 8,611 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 ~336 eBooks Per Month This Year [Including PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints] All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 77 eBooks Per Week In 2006 It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2003 to 2006 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.8 years from Oct. 2003 to Jun. 2006 from 10,000 to ~20,000 [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] [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. [Daily PrePrints stats at http://preprints.readingroo.ms/] Please note that sometimes it takes a few weeks for entire collections to fully appear in the PrePrints Section, thus the count sometimes jumps by a large number when the files are eventually completed and added in. Also note that the PrePrint files are just that, PrePrints, and thus may move later to other locations, including the main collection or The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, etc. For example, on June 14, 200 WAP compatible cell phone eBooks appeared, and will likely be moved to other collection points later. The entire process of working out the details just to send them to the PrePrints Section took well over a month. Even with the speeded up process of the PrePrints Section, it still takes a certain amount of time to collect and put such a large collection online in a proper manner. * 75,000+ eBooks at the PG Consortia Center http://www.gutenberg.cc [Including after July 4] The major difference between the eBooks at the PG Consortia Center and those at the originating PG sites is that the eBooks available at the Consortia Center were created by and for other eLibraries-- while the eBooks at the originating Project Gutenberg sites are in the vast majority created specifically by Project Gutenberg. ~100 eLibraries should be listed at the Consortia Center by July 4, and we are hoping for ~200 by next year. These eBooks are created for other projects, with other standards, and we do not change them or make corrections without the originating eLibrary's permission. * ***Progress Report, including Distributed Proofreaders In the first 05.50 months of this year, PG produced 1,852 new eBooks. It took us from Jul 1971 to Aug 1999 to produce our first 1,852 eBooks! That's 24 WEEKS as Compared to ~28 Years!!! 109 New eBooks This Week 271 New eBooks Last Week 380 New eBooks This Month [Jun] 336 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 1852 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 ==== 16,932 New eBooks Since Start Of 2001 That's Only 65.50 Months! ~258 books per month! 20,000 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks [Auto-count] 16,518 eBooks This Week Last Year ==== 3,482 New eBooks In Last 12 Months [Incl. 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Project Gutenberg PrePrints Started January 25, 2006 http://preprints.readingroo.ms * PROJECT GUTENBERG DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS UPDATE: Since starting production in October 2000, Distributed Proofreaders has contributed 8,611 Books to Project Gutenberg. 40 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. Info on subscribing to daily, weekly, monthly Newsletters, listservs: http://www.gutenberg.org/howto/subscribe-howto or http://www.gutenberg.org/subs.shtml *** *Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Report The PGCC collection at http://www.gutenberg.cc has doubled in size from the listings below, but we don't have exactly matching collection sizes yet for a new breakdown. 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Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.) *** Statistical Review In the 24 weeks of this year, we have produced 1852 new eBooks. It took us from 07/71 to 05/98 to produce our FIRST 1852 eBooks!!! That's 24 WEEKS as Compared to ~28 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1850 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] Old Christmas, by Washington Irving 1850 Aug 1999 The Yellow Crayon, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[EPO#5][ycrynxxx.xxx] 1849 Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard 1848 Aug 1999 Songs, Merry and Sad, by John Charles McNeill [sngmsxxx.xxx] 1847 Aug 1999 The Vision Splendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx] 1846 Aug 1999 Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #5][zdbsnxxx.xxx] 1845 Aug 1999 The Scholemaster, by Roger Ascham [In Markup] [smstrxxx.xxx] 1844 [AKA: The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham] Aug 1999 Vera, The Medium, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#29][veramxxx.xxx] 1843 Aug 1999 Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #10][strgfxxx.xxx] 1842 Z. Marcas, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Clara Bell and others] 1841 The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser 1840 Aug 1999 Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf [otbeqxxx.xxx] 1839 Jul 1999 A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson [nvycrxxx.xxx] 1838 The Prince and The Pauper, Complete, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1837 (See also #7154-#7162) * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,523,584,700 that would be 20,000 x 65,235,847 = ~1.30 Trillion !!! With 20,000 eBooks online as of June 21, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.77 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,235,847 x 20,000 x $.77 = ~$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 this week!] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.50 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 20,000 eBooks online as of June 21, 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 $.61 when we had 16,518 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 20,000 eBooks in 34 Years and 11.50 Months We Averaged 572 Per Year 48 Per Month 1.57 Per Day At 1850 eBooks Done In The 168 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 11.0 Per Day 77 per Week 334 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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