PG Weekly Newsletter (2001-06-06)

by Michael Cook on June 6, 2001
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Subject: [gweekly] Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter" <gweekly@listserv.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:05:00 -0500 (CDT)


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Jan 2003 Cupid's Understudy, by Edward Salisbury Field     [cpdndxxx.xxx]3602
Jan 2003 The Captives, by Hugh Walpole    [Hugh Walpole #3][cptvsxxx.xxx]3601


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Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V10, 1877, Cotton [MN#10][mn10vxxx.xxx]3590
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V9, 1877, Cotton  [MN#09][mn09vxxx.xxx]3589
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V8, 1877, Cotton  [MN#08][mn08vxxx.xxx]3588
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V7, 1877, Cotton  [MN#07][mn07vxxx.xxx]3587
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V6, 1877, Cotton  [MN#06][mn06vxxx.xxx]3586


This should complete our November listings:

Nov 2002 La Mere Bauche, by Anthony Trollope [Trollope #12][merbuxxx.xxx]3550
Nov 2002 Cowley's Essays, by Abraham Cowley                [cowesxxx.xxx]3549
Nov 2002 The Pharisee And Publican, by John Bunyan[Bunyan5][pharpxxx.xxx]3548
Nov 2002 See America First, by Orville O. Hiestand         [cusa1xxx.xxx]3547
Nov 2002 The Eureka Stockade, by Carboni Raffaello[Carboni][rkstkxxx.xxx]3546
[Wrote as Carboni Raffaello, however Carboni was really Raffaello Carboni]

Nov 2002 The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith #3[cpwogxxx.xxx]3545
Nov 2002 How He Lied to Her Husband, by George Bernard Shaw[lied2xxx.xxx]3544
Nov 2002 Heartbreak House, by George Bernard Shaw [GBS #16][hrtbkxxx.xxx]3543
Nov 2002 Quotations of Jacques Casanova, by David Widger #6[dwqjcxxx.xxx]3542
Nov 2002 Thoughts Evoked By The Census Of Moscow by Tolstoi[tecomxxx.xxx]3541

Nov 2002 Article On The Census In Moscow, by Leo Tolstoi/11[ancimxxx.xxx]3540
[Also list under Lyof and Tolstoi, middle inital is N.]
Nov 2002 The Love-Chase, by James Sheridan Knowles [JSK #2][lvchsxxx.xxx]3539
Nov 2002 The Americanization of Edward Bok, by Edward Bok  [ewbokxxx.xxx]3538
[The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, by Edward William Bok]


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ENGLISH STILL RULES ON WEB, BUT TIMES ARE CHANGING
As Internet use grows worldwide, global companies will have to
start offering their Web sites in multilingual formats to reach
non-English speaking consumers as well as non-English speaking
business partners. In fact, 66 percent of e-commerce dollars
will be generated outside the U.S. over the next two years, and
non-English speaking users will be the majority on the Internet
by 2005, according to the research firm Aberdeen Group. Yahoo!
has expanded its reach to broadcast in languages native to Latin
America, China, Europe, and India. Computer Economics analyst
Michael Erbschloe argued that global companies "have no choice
but to approach it from a multiple language point of view" and
believes global business supply chains will have to operate on
a multilingual Net soon. The Aberdeen Group says 57 of U.S.
Fortune 100 companies ran multilingual sites during 2000,
nearly twice as many as in the previous year.
(NewsFactor Network, 31 May 2001)

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[As I have been predicting, the world is going to "pay per view."
Soon you won't EVER be able to OWN *ANY* copy of copyrighted materials,
and the extinct DIVX format will be reintroduced with no other option.]

"SUBSCRIPTION MODEL" THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE
Microsoft and eBay are among the first of what will become a long line of
technology companies to adopt a "subscription model" that moves away from
the idea of selling software for a one-time fee. A GigaInformation Group
analyst says, "The trend is undeniable - it's just a question of how long
it's going to take. The existing model isn't working. You can certainly try
to live in the past, but whether you're a Microsoft or an eBay, you're
probably going to get bypassed." And Arthur Newman of ABN Amro explains: "I
think the Internet over the last few years has spawned a whole generation of
people who expect to get everything for free and forget you have to pay for
services. If people can't make money providing them, they're going to stop
providing them. There's a limit to good will. Ebay is hardly alone in
starting to charge for things." (AP/Los Angeles Times 1 Jun 2001)
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/techwr/20010601/tCB00V3766.html


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Suppose someone wants to run some searches on a pay-per-view book,
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What if someone wants to run a concordance program on this book?

Does a word frequency test count?

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extreme detail to see if they reinforce or contradict each other
in specific instances?

Suppose someone wants to do a thesaurus search on marriage, so a
search is done on:  wed, wedded, wedding, unwed, marriage, marry,
matrimony, marry, married, unmarried, union etc., etc., etc.

Does each search count as one "view" to be paid for?

How would one go about becoming an expert, or even more, a scholar,
of material that is released only in pay-per-view formats?


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