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Subject: [hhelpers] Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:00:52 -0400 (EDT)
Project Gutenberg's Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, September 5, 2001
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Correction:
Feb 2003 Rejected Addresses, by James and Horace Smith [rjtadxxx.xxx]3769
was erroneously listed as
Feb 2003 Rejected Address, by James and Horace Smith [rjtadxxx.xxx]3769
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We have posted a significantly improved 11th editions of:
Jan 2000 Something New, by P.G. Wodehouse [P.G.Wodehouse#2][smtnwxxx.xxx]2042
The new files are smtnw11.txt and smtnw11.zip
Mar 1999 Marie, by H. Rider Haggard [H. Rider Haggard #4][mariexxx.xxx]1690
The new files are marie11.txt and marie11.zip
Mar 1999 The Egoist, by George Meredith[George Meredith #6][egostxxx.xxx]1684
The new files are egost11.txt and egost11.zip
Oct 1998 Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary the Ring, by GB Shaw[sringxxx.xxx]1487
[Filenames are sring11.txt and sring11.zip]
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V3[Raven Edition][#8][poe3vxxx.xxx]2149
The new files are poe3v11.txt and poe3v11.zip
Contents
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
Ligeia
Morella
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Spectacles
King Pest
Three Sundays in a Week
Oct 2002 Jo's Boys, by Louisa May Alcott[Louisa M. Alcott#8[jsbysxxx.xxx]3499
[Author's Full Name: Louisa May Alcott][Filenames jsbys11.txt & jsbys11.zip]
Note:
This edition was produced by the Project Gutenberg Alcott Team,
who managed this new edition in less than one week from the
date it was requested by one of our readers on the eBook list.
and
A newly formatted version of the XML version of The Iceberg
Express has been posted. The new format is a drastic change
in principal (everything is now in 1 file instead of 6
files), but the content is the same, so the version number
remains the same:
Sep 2000 The Iceberg Express, by David Cory [icbxpxxx.xxx]2325
[icbxp10x.xml and icbxp10x.zip have been modified]
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Here Are Your 27 New Project Gutenberg eTexts For This Week:
First, The Nine eTexts From Project Gutenberg Of Australia:
The Following Etexts have been posted by Project Gutenberg Of Australia, and
should NOT be hotlinked in Project Gutenberg indexes in the US. A copyright
in Australia is "life +50" so they can do authors who died by 1950. Doyle's
works should have just become public domain on January 1, 2001 in "life +70"
countries, as he died in 1930. . .please. . .be careful. . .**copyright laws
are changing nearly every year in major countries around the world. . .check
with your local librarians to see what is legal in your country*** !!!!!!!
Aug 2001 Fortunes of Richard Mahony, by H Richardson[HR#04][010009xx.xxx]0009A
[Trilogy comprising 010005xx.xxx, 010006xx.xxx and 010007xx.xxx]
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100091.zip]
Aug 2001 Here's Luck, by Lennie Lower [LL#01][010008xx.xxx]0008A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100081.txt]
Aug 2001 Ultima Thule, by Henry Handel Richardson [HR#03][010007xx.xxx]0007A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100071.txt]
Aug 2001 The Way Home, by Henry Handel Richardson [HR#02][010006xx.xxx]0006A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100061.txt]
Aug 2001 Australia Felix, by Henry Handel Richardson[HR#01][010005xx.xxx]0005A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100051.txt]
Aug 2001 Under the Northern Lights, by Alan Sullivan[AS#01][010004xx.xxx]0004A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100041.txt]
Aug 2001 When the World Screamed, by Sir A C Doyle [AD#01][010003xx.xxx]0003A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100031.txt]
Aug 2001 Nineteen eighty-four, by George Orwell [GO#02][010002xx.xxx]0002A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100021.txt]
Aug 2001 Anmimal Farm, by George Orwell [GO#01][010001xx.xxx]0001A
[http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/0100011.txt]
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And here are the 17 more eTexts from Project Gutenberg of the United States:
For "instant" access to our new Etexts you can surf to:
http://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03
or
ftp://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03
You will need the first five letters of the filenames listed below.
Apr 2003 The Entire Zebiline by Phillipe de Masa [IM#21][im21bxxx.xxx]3934
Apr 2003 Zebiline by Phillipe de Masa, v3 [IM#20][im20bxxx.xxx]3933
Apr 2003 Zebiline by Phillipe de Masa, v2 [IM#19][im19bxxx.xxx]3932
Apr 2003 Zebiline by Phillipe de Masa, v1 [IM#18][im18bxxx.xxx]3931
30
Apr 2003 The Entire Prince Zilah by Jules Claretie [IM#17][im17bxxx.xxx]3930
Apr 2003 Prince Zilah, by Jules Claretie, v3 [IM#16][im16bxxx.xxx]3929
Apr 2003 Prince Zilah, by Jules Claretie, v2 [IM#15][im15bxxx.xxx]3928
Apr 2003 Prince Zilah, by Jules Claretie, v1 [IM#14][im14bxxx.xxx]3927
85
Feb 2003 In The Reign Of Terror, by G. A. Henty [Henty #4][reterxxx.xxx]3785
Feb 2003 The Sheridan Road Mystery by Paul and Mabel Thorne[shrdnxxx.xxx]3784
Feb 2003 Mother, by Maxim Gorky [Maxim Gorky PG eText #4][mthrgxxx.xxx]3783
Feb 2003 Huntingtower, John Buchan [John Buchan #7][hntngxxx.xxx]3782
Feb 2003 The Jewel of Seven Stars, Bram Stoker [bstoker #5][thjwlxxx.xxx]3781
80
Feb 2003 The King's Highway, by G.P.R. James [knghwxxx.xxx]3780
Feb 2003 Events Culminating in The Great Conflict, Marshall[ecigcxxx.xxx]3779
[Complete Listing: A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study
of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict, by Logan Marshall]
Feb 2003 The Interdependence of Literature, Georgina Curtis[ntrdpxxx.xxx]3778
[Author's Full Name: Georgina Pell Curtis]
Feb 2003 Tom Swift & His Electric Rifle, by Victor Appleton[10tomxxx.xxx]3777
Feb 2003 The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle[Doyle29][vfearxxx.xxx]3776
Also see:
Jun 2002 The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle[Doyle28][vfearxxx.xxx]3289
[This is vfear10a.txt and .zip, from a different source.]
75
Feb 2003 Napoleon Bonaparte, John S. C. Abbott [nplnbxxx.xxx]3775
*** Progress Chart ***
We have added 18 US eTexts and 9 Australian eText in the past week,
for a total of 27 new books for you.
With 3825 eTexts online as of September 5, it now takes an average of
100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $2.61 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One
Trillion Dollars] in books. [Note a few math corrections here]
*100,000,000 readers is one to two percent of the world's population!*
Our Total For The Year Is About 792 For 247 days,
this is 3.20 per day or 95 Per 30 day month. . . .
This Would Yield About 1169 For The Year. . . .
We are about 36 weeks through the year. . . .
counting each Wednesday as ending one week.
Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
09/05/01 27 22
September total 27
08/29/01 25 22
08/22/01 21 22
08/15/01 30 22
08/08/01 20 22
08/01/01 22 22
August total 117
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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***News Headlines From Newsscan and Edupage***
HP TO ACQUIRE COMPAQ
Hewlett-Packard is buying Compaq Computer in a $25-billion deal that would
create an information technology behemoth with annual revenues of about $87
billion. The deal presents a potential threat to industry giant IBM, which
had revenues of slightly more than $88 billion last year. HP chairman and
CEO Carly Fiorina will retain her titles and Compaq chairman and CEO
Michael Capellas will become president of HP. "This is a decisive move that
accelerates our strategy and positions us to win," says Fiorina. "At a
particularly challenging time for the IT industry, this combination vaults
us into a leadership role." (Financial Times 4 Sep 2001)
http://news.ft.com/news/industries/infotechnology
BITS OF EVIDENCE
A growing number of consultants now specialize in helping law firms prepare
for trail by sorting through electronic documents and e-mail messages found
either on a defendant's own computer or on file server systems. Computers
can identify documents by date, authors, recipients and keywords, and can
frequently yield information the author thought had been erased. Attorney
Michael Epstein says: "You know for a paper document, it's either there or
it isn't. With e-mail, it's a little different." He provides the example of
a lawsuit bought by one company against its former employees, whose denials
of working for themselves on company time were refuted by evidence of their
personal activities obtained by restoring files erased from the computers
they had used at work. (New York Times 4 Sep 2001)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/technology/04DISC.html
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