PG Weekly Newsletter (2001-07-11)

by Michael Cook on July 11, 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, 11 Jul 2001 09:54:21 -0500 (CDT)



antonella mariani <antomar@inwind.it>


My mainframe appears to be crashing, so I am sending out this VERY ROUGH
draft now, and I hope I can work on this a bit more in a few hours. . . .

We need someone to make CDs to send to former Walnut Creek readers.

We need some people in the following countries to post George Orwell's
1984 and Animal Farm.

Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Bulgaria,
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, El Salvador,    
Iceland, Japan, (South) Korea, Latvia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, 
Panama, the Philippines, Poland, St. Vincent and the Grenadines,    
Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad   
and Tobago, and Ukraine are all "life plus 50 years" countries,     
or were last I checked.) and Portugal.                              


This is Project Gutenberg's Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, July 11, 2001


This Is The First Newsletter Of Our Second 30 Years. . . .

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Maybe even 100 Etext this month!


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Jan 2003 Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives           [ivessxxx.xxx]3673
Jan 2003 The 2000 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook#10][No#7][world00x.xxx]3672
[Can anyone find the 1996 & 1997 editions? We have all the rest back to 1990]
Jan 2003 Christie Johnstone, by Charles Reade[Chas Reade#8][crstixxx.xxx]3671
70
Jan 2003 Peg Woffington, by Charles Reade[Charles Reade #7][pgwofxxx.xxx]3670
Jan 2003 The Woman-Hater, by Charles Reade[Charles Reade#6][wmnhtxxx.xxx]3669
Jan 2003 The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, Baker[angbnxxx.xxx]3668
[Author's Full Name:  Samuel White Baker [Baker #8]
Jan 2003 Wolfville Days, by Alfred Henry Lewis             [wlfdzxxx.xxx]3667
Jan 2003 Andreas Hofer, by Lousia Muhlbach   [Muhlbach #6] [hoferxxx.xxx]3666
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
65
Jan 2003 Maurine and Other Poems, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox[5][maurnxxx.xxx]3665
Jan 2003 Yvette, by Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant    [GM#17][yvttexxx.xxx]3664
Jan 2003 The Girl From Keller's, by Harold Bindloss        [tgfksxxx.xxx]3663
[Alternate Title From The UK:  Sadie's Conquest]
Jan 2003 Oscar Wilde, His Life & Confessions, Frank Harris [owhlcxxx.xxx]3662
Jan 2003 Quotations from The Essays of Montaigne, by Widger[dwqmnxxx.xxx]3661
[#12 in our series of Widger's Quotations by David Widger]

and

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v6   [CM#28][cm28bxxx.xxx]3865
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v5   [CM#27][cm27bxxx.xxx]3864
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v4   [CM#26][cm26bxxx.xxx]3863
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v3   [CM#25][cm25bxxx.xxx]3862
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v2   [CM#24][cm24bxxx.xxx]3861
60
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v1   [CM#23][cm23bxxx.xxx]3860
Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans[CM#22][cm22bxxx.xxx]3859
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v4[CM#21][cm21bxxx.xxx]3858
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v3[CM#20][cm20bxxx.xxx]3857
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v2[CM#19][cm19bxxx.xxx]3856
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Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v1[CM#18][cm18bxxx.xxx]3855

--=={ WEEKLY UPDATE PROGRESS }==--

Since we started sending out weekly newsletters on 4/11/01, we have posted
277 new Etexts; for those 14 newsletters, we have averaged 19.78 Etexts
posted per week; we need to to continue to average 19.23 Etexts per week
in order to publish 1,000 Etexts this year, and another week like this,
and we will have 100 Etexts in four weeks.

  WEEK    ##
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07/11/01  24
07/04/01  29
06/27/01  22
06/20/01  18
06/13/01  17
06/06/01  20
05/31/01  18
05/23/01  16
05/16/01  18
05/09/01  18
05/02/01  39
04/25/01  15
04/18/01  11
04/11/01  12
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3 months 277

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