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The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, July 04, 2006 PT1
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98 Total of Four Sites
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48 per month
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111 per month
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139 per month
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~98? This Week
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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
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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
6,525,015,623 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!]
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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.
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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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.
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