PG Weekly Newsletter (2001-06-27)

by Michael Cook on June 27, 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, 27 Jun 2001 11:58:53 -0500 (CDT)


The Project Gutenberg *Weekly* Newsletter for Wednesday, June 27, 2001

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of them has been completely uploaded. . . !

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or
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Or 02, 01, 00, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 92, 91, 90.


You will need the first five letters of the filenames listed below.


We have a total of 18 new files to download this week:
[This would yield a total of 936 new files per year.]


If you sent in a file you don't see here, or sent in a revision, or xeroxes
for our copyright research, and haven't heard from me let me know.  Most of
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and there is no time limit,
so let's supply more books."

There is no end to the great things we can accomplish
if we don't worry about who gets the credit.  - Anon.

"Only wimps use backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff
on FTP, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds

"Life is no brief candle to me.  It is a sort of splendid
torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want
to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it
on to future generations."            George Bernard Shaw

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
(Albert Einstein)

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Here are the 23 new Etexts and 2 improved Etexts
[23 Etexts per week would yield 1196 per year]


!!!!!!!Please note these files are in our new /etext03 directory!!!!!!!

We averaged about 18.83 per week since we started weekly newsletters.
12 Newsletters and 223 Etexts; we need to average 19.23 for 1,000/yr.


Weekly totals

23
18
17
20
18
16
18
18
39
15
11
12


UPDATED EDITIONS:

Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [Our English Edition] [siddhxxx.xxx]2500
[We have finally reached a good enough translation to call our 10th edition!]

We have posted a significantly improved 11th edition of:
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe   [Goethe26][7ljw1xxx.xxx]2407
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe   [Goethe26][8ljw1xxx.xxx]2407


And here are the 23 new Etexts for this week:
[23 per week would yield 1196 per year]

Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz     [CM#09][cm09bxxx.xxx]3846
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v4        [CM#08][cm08bxxx.xxx]3845
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v3        [CM#07][cm07bxxx.xxx]3844
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v2        [CM#06][cm06bxxx.xxx]3843
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v1        [CM#05][cm05bxxx.xxx]3842
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois [CM#04][cm04bxxx.xxx]3841
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v3    [CM#03][cm03bxxx.xxx]3840
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v2    [CM#02][cm02bxxx.xxx]3839
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v1    [CM#01][cm01bxxx.xxx]3838
[From:  The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series]


Jan 2003 The Devil's Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw [#20][tdvldxxx.xxx]3638
Jan 2003 The Garden Of Allah, by Robert Hichens[Hichens #4][allahxxx.xxx]3637
Jan 2003 The Fall of the Niebelungs     [Author Unknown]   [nieblxxx.xxx]3636

Jan 2003 Mother, by Kathleen Norris                        [mothrxxx.xxx]3635
Jan 2003 The Guilty River, by Wilkie Collins[W.Collins #27][gltrvxxx.xxx]3634
Jan 2003 Jezebel's Daughter, by Wilkie Collins[Collins #26][jzbelxxx.xxx]3633
Jan 2003 Poor Miss Finch, by Wilkie Collins[W. Collins #25][finchxxx.xxx]3632
Jan 2003 On the Significance of Science and Art, by Toltoy [sgnsaxxx.xxx]3631
[Also list under variants Lyof and Tolstoi]

Jan 2003 What to do? by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi   [Tolstoy #13][whttdxxx.xxx]3630
   Contains:
   To Women
   On Labor And Luxury

Jan 2003 The Titan, by Theodore Dreiser[Theodore Dreiser#3][titanxxx.xxx]3629
Jan 2003 The Kingdom of Love, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox[EWW#4][kgdlvxxx.xxx]3628
Jan 2003 Life of Bunyan, by James Hamilton[Jas. Hamilton#1][lfbunxxx.xxx]3627
[From "The Work of the Puritan Divines"]
Jan 2003 Widger's Quotations from Abraham Lincoln's Writing[dwqalxxx.xxx]3626
[Full:  Widger's Quotations from Abraham Lincoln's Writings, by David Widger]


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COURT SIDES WITH WRITERS OVER COPYRIGHT DISPUTE
In a blow to big media firms, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that
freelance writers may control whether articles they write for print
publication can then be reproduced in electronic form. Large publishers
have argued that if they have to renegotiate over electronic publication
rights, they probably will remove a substantial amount of material from
their electronic databases. "Historians, scholars and the public lose
because of the holes in history created by the removal of these articles
from electronic issues of newspapers such as the Times," said New York
Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. The ruling will affect primarily
content written before the mid 1990s, which most publishers updated their
contracts to include electronic as well as print publishing rights. The
National Writers Union, however, estimates a range of potential liabilities
between $2.5 billion and $600 billion. The decision in this case could have
broad ramifications in similar disputes in the book and music publishing
businesses. (Wall Street Journal 26 Jun 2001)
http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB993473705172238884.djm
(sub req'd)


[Remember what I said about the move to "pay per view". . .?]

MICROSOFT SHUTS DOWN FREE LISTBOT SERVICE
In a continuing effort to replace free services with paid-subscription
services, Microsoft is shutting down its free newsletter-distribution
service but will continue to offer business list-management software for a
fee. One newsletter publisher said sympathetically: "It doesn't really make
sense to offer free services anymore on the Internet. It's about revenue
now, and if it's not revenue-generating, there's no value from a business
perspective." (AP/Washington Post 24 Jun 2001)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/latestap/A39773-2001Jun24.html


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