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In the 07 weeks of this year, we have produced 578 new eBooks.
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FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #578
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]
Jul 1996 Notes From The Underground/Fyodor Dostoyevsky[#1] [notunxxx.xxx]
600
Jul 1996 Vanity Fair, by William Thackeray [Thackeray #1] [vfairxxx.xxx]
599
Jul 1996 Heimskringla [Norwegian Kings], by Snorri Sturlson[hmskrxxx.xxx]
598
Njal's Saga, by Unknown Icelanders
597
Jul 1996 Rivers to the Sea, by Sara Teasdale [Teasdale #4] [rivsexxx.xxx]
596
Jul 1996 The Sisters' Tragedy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich[#1][sistrxxx.xxx]
595
Jul 1996 Twilight Stories, by Various Authors [twilsxxx.xxx]
594
Jul 1996 Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant V. 1 [GEM1][swgemxxx.xxx]
593
Jul 1996 Chinese Nightingale, et al, by Vachel Lindsay [#4][ngalexxx.xxx]
592
Jul 1996 Flame and Shadow, by Sara Teasdale [Teasdale #3] [fshadxxx.xxx]
591
Jul 1996 Robert Louis Stevenson, A Memorial by A. H. Japp [rlsjpxxx.xxx]
590
Jul 1996 Catriona (Kidnapped2) by Robt L. Stevenson[RLS#25][ctrnaxxx.xxx]
589
Jul 1996 Master Humphrey's Clock, by Charles Dickens [CD#5][mhmphxxx.xxx]
588
Jul 1996 Danny's Own Story, by Don Marquis [Don Marquis #2][dsownxxx.xxx]
587
Jul 1996 Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al, Thomas Browne[rmedixxx.xxx]
586
Jul 1996 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the Crafts [runngxxx.xxx]
585
Jul 1996 Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson [ourngxxx.xxx]
584
Jul 1996 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins [Collins #4] [wwhitxxx.xxx]
583
Jul 1996 A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories [BP#2] [bpstoxxx.xxx]
582
Jul 1996 Ginx's Baby, A Satire, by Edward Jenkins? [ginxbxxx.xxx]
581
Jul 1996 The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #3-4] [pwprsxxx.xxx]
580
Jul 1996 The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #3-4] [pwprsxxx.xxx]
580
Jul 1996 The Poems of Sidney Lanier [slanrxxx.xxx]
579
Jul 1996 Down With The Cities, by Tadashi NAKASHIMA [dwtctxxx.xxx]
578C
Jul 1996 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4 of 16 [sjv04xxx.xxx]
577
Jun 1996 The Project Gutenberg Web Pages [pgwebxxx.xxx]
576
Jun 1996 Essays of Francis Bacon [Francis Bacon #1] [ebacnxxx.xxx]
575
Jun 1996 Poems of William Blake, by William Blake [Blake#1][pblakxxx.xxx]
574
Jun 1996 Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb [tshakxxx.xxx]
573
Jun 1996 The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter [BP #1] [gbtbpxxx.xxx]
572
Jun 1996 The 1995 CIA World Factbook [CIA Factbook #5][world95x.xxx]
571
Jun 1996 The Moravians in Georgia, by Adelaide L. Fries [mrvgaxxx.xxx]
570
Jun 1996 Brann The Iconoclast, William Cowper Brann [vol12][bti12xxx.xxx]
569
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Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet?
If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
6,499,127,318 that would be 18,720 x 64,991,273 = ~1.22 Trillion !!!
For those of you who keep track of such things, it is somewhat likely
that the world population will pass 6.5 billion while I am gone and a
bit less likely that the US population will pass 300 million.
With 18,720 eBooks online as of February 22, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.82 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 64,978,989 x 18,717 x $.82 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
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A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.53 Value Per Book To 100 Million
With 18,720 eBooks online as of February 22, 2006 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.53 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.64 when we had 15,530 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
At 18,720 eBooks in 34 Years and 07.75 Months We Averaged
540 Per Year
45.0 Per Month
1.48 Per Day
At 578 eBooks Done In The 049 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
11.8 Per Day
82 Per Week
328 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].
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the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production
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