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Subject: Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:08:58 -0400 (EDT)
Project Gutenberg's Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
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This is being prepared a day early, as the site I normally work out of
seems to be having huge network problems, and I can't actually DO much
of the "virtual" work I would normally be doing today. Luckily, a few
of our best volunteers are stepping in for me, and we may yet have the
extraordinary "normal" amount of Etexts you have come to expect from a
band of volunteers. . . . I guess this turned out to be the best time
for me to train people to actually load up the Etexts for downloading,
directly, without me as the final editor and FTP agent. . .as I mayn't
be able to do it all that well tomorrow, certainly not easily today.
I had planned to do 6 books today, and barely managed to do one, and I
haven't been able to do all my email yet, either. . .things just lock,
for minutes at a time. . .so I work on local files while I continually
manage to think globally.
So far, as of about midnight, David Widger managed to add 8 more books
so we WILL have a reasonable total by the time the Newsletter goes out.
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We still need volunteer in North Dakoka, and now one in Wyoming.
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We need some volunteers who can spend just a minute or two looking
over each of the three or so eTexts we post on the average day....
Just to download them and check to see that nothing went wrong in
final save and upload process. Some times there will be missing
"hard returns" or there will be trailing spaces on some or all
of the lines, or there won't be the proper end of file marker,
margination, or header entries. Nothing sophisticated here, we
just want to be able to catch obvious errors, and we can provide
a program we are porting to various operating system to make this
even easier as we go along. 100 Etexts per month is just too much
for any small group of people to do well. . . .
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Please send in as much copyright research as you can in the next
month, as I plan to be away for November, and don't want to swamp
Greg Newby with more copyright research than is necessary.
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Please note we corrected previous spelling of Zibeline and Massa as below:
Apr 2003 The Entire Zibeline, by Phillipe de Massa [IM#21][im21bxxx.xxx]3934
Apr 2003 Zibeline, by Phillipe de Massa, v3 [IM#20][im20bxxx.xxx]3933
Apr 2003 Zibeline, by Phillipe de Massa, v2 [IM#19][im19bxxx.xxx]3932
Apr 2003 Zibeline, by Phillipe de Massa, v1 [IM#18][im18bxxx.xxx]3931
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Here Are Your 31 New Project Gutenberg eTexts For This Week:
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.
We have recently posted a hopefully significantly improved version of:
Jan 1998 The Chessman of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs[ERB#11][cmarsxxx.txt]1153
[The most recent version is cmars12.txt and cmars12.zip]
Apr 2002 Complete Letters of Mark Twain, by Paine [MT#60][mtcltxxx.xxx]3199
[The new version is in the files mtclt11.txt and mtclt11.zip]
Feb 2003 Under the Lilacs, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #9 [ullcsxxx.xxx]3795
[The new version is ullcs11.txt and ullcs11.zip]
Mon Year Title Author Series# filename.ext
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V9 by Richard Burton [91001xxx.xxx]3443
[91001108.txt and .zip have accents, 91001107.txt and .zip do not have them.]
Please note the above file is in /etext02 and the files below are in /etext03
Apr 2003 Entire Jacqueline by Bentzon (Mme. Blanc) [IM#58][im58bxxx.xxx]3971
Apr 2003 Jacqueline by Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc), v3 [IM#57][im57bxxx.xxx]3970
Apr 2003 Jacqueline by Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc), v2 [IM#56][im56bxxx.xxx]3969
Apr 2003 Jacqueline by Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc), v1 [IM#55][im55bxxx.xxx]3968
Apr 2003 Entire Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget [IM#54][im54bxxx.xxx]3967
Apr 2003 Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget, v4 [IM#53][im53bxxx.xxx]3966
Apr 2003 Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget, v3 [IM#52][im52bxxx.xxx]3965
Apr 2003 Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget, v2 [IM#51][im51bxxx.xxx]3964
Apr 2003 Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget, v1 [IM#50][im50bxxx.xxx]3963
Apr 2003 Entire Romance of Youth by Francois Coppee [IM#49][im49bxxx.xxx]3962
Apr 2003 A Romance of Youth by Francois Coppee, v4 [IM#48][im48bxxx.xxx]3961
Apr 2003 A Romance of Youth by Francois Coppee, v3 [IM#47][im47bxxx.xxx]3960
Apr 2003 A Romance of Youth by Francois Coppee, v2 [IM#46][im46bxxx.xxx]3959
Apr 2003 A Romance of Youth by Francois Coppee, v1 [IM#45][im45bxxx.xxx]3958
Apr 2003 Entire L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halevy [IM#44][im44bxxx.xxx]3957
Apr 2003 L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halevy, v3 [IM#43][im43bxxx.xxx]3956
Apr 2003 L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halevy, v2 [IM#42][im42bxxx.xxx]3955
Apr 2003 L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halevy, v1 [IM#41][im41bxxx.xxx]3954
Mar 2003 The Man-eaters of Tsavo, by J. H. Patterson [tsavoxxx.xxx]3810
[Full Title: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures]
Mar 2003 The Master of the World, Jules Verne [Verne #19][thmstxxx.xxx]3809
Mar 2003 Robur the Conqueror, Jules Verne [Verne #18][xrobcxxx.xxx]3808
[8-bit accents are included in 8robc10.*, plain characters are in 7robc10.*]
Mar 2003 Different Forms of Flowers, by Charles Darwin #19][dfmflxxx.xxx]3807
[Full Title: The Different Forms Of Flowers On Plants Of The Same Species]
Mar 2003 A Modern Cinderella, by Louisa May Alcott[LMA #10][mdcndxxx.xxx]3806
Contains:
A Modern Cinderella: or The Little Old Shoe
Debby's Debut
Brothers
Nelly's Hospital
05
Mar 2003 The Vultures, by Henry Seton Merriman [vltrsxxx.xxx]3805
Mar 2003 Pierre And Jean, by Guy de Maupassant [G de M #19][pandjxxx.xxx]3804
Mar 2003 File No. 113, by Emile Gaboriau[Emile Gaboriau#10][vltrsxxx.xxx]3803
Mar 2003 The Widow Lerouge, by Emile Gaboriau [Gaboriau #9][lergexxx.xxx]3802
[Alternate Title: The Lerouge Case]
Mar 2003 Napoleon And Blucher, by Louise Muhlbach [LM #9][nplblxxx.xxx]3801
[Variant spellings: Louisa, Louise, Luise Muhlbach; and Luise von Muhlbach]
100
Feb 2003 reserved*** [ xxx.xxx]3800*
Feb 2003 Landholding In England, by Joseph Fisher[Fisher#2][lndiexxx.xxx]3799
Feb 2003 Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, by Captain Gronow[grnowxxx.xxx]3798
[Author's Full Name: Captain Rees Howell Gronow]
*** Progress Chart ***
We created 31 new eTexts for you this week.
With 3887 eTexts online as of September 19, it now takes an average of
100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $2.57 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One
Trillion Dollars] in books.
*100,000,000 readers is one to two percent of the world's population!*
Our Total For The Year Is About 854 For 261 days,
this is 3.27 per day or 98.1 Per 30 day month. . . .
This Would Yield About 1194 For The Year. . . .
We are about 38 weeks through the year. . . .
counting each Wednesday as ending one week.
We have averaged 25.25 eTexts per week since the beginning of July,
for a total of 303 new eTexts since then.
Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
09/19/01 31 22.47
09/12/01 31 22.3
09/05/01 27 22.2
September total 89
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
***News Headlines From Newsscan and Edupage***
MASSIVE E-MAIL GROWTH PREDICTED
E-mail use is set to grow 138% over the next four years, according to
researchers at IDC, who are forecasting 1.2 billion e-mail mailboxes by
2005. By that time, the number of personal e-mail messages sent in an
average day will exceed 36 billion. Growth will be fueled by increased use
of free Web-based services, such as Hotmail, and the proliferation of
Web-enabled devices, such as cell phones and PDAs. "Wireless access through
e-mail devices will offer new ways for e-mail users to remain connected
longer while on the move," says IDC researcher Mark Levitt. (Ananova 18 Sep
2001) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_401552.html
MICROSOFT POSTPONES FLIGHT SIMULATOR UPDATE
Saying that "it's just an inappropriate time to release the product,"
Microsoft is delaying the launch of the new version of its Flight Simulator
software, which game players use to pilot simulated flights of a variety of
aircraft (from gliders to jet liners) over much of the world, including New
York City and the World Trade Center towers. If a player's aircraft strikes
a building the program shows that the plane has crashed, but the buildings
do not blow up. Microsoft is removing depictions of the World Trade Center
from new releases of the game, and offering a software patch on its Web
site allowing owners of existing copies of the game to remove the towers.
(AP/New York Times 17 Sep 2001)
http://partners.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Attacks-Microsoft.html
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NEW WORLD ORDER, COPYRIGHT STYLE [!!!!!!!]
An international treaty currently being drafted would force
foreign companies to abide by domestic court judgments and vice
versa. Representatives of more than 50 countries are currently
drafting the framework in the Hague, including China, the European
Union, and the United States. The U.S. Patent Office will host a
discussion of the topic this week, which is expected to draw
spokespeople from the many different industries the law would
affect. Morrison & Foerster lawyer Barbara Welbery, who will speak
on behalf of Yahoo! at the hearings, said ISPs fear the law would
subject them to multitudes of lawsuits, making them responsible
for content delivered over their networks. However, groups from
the movie and music industries look forward to the law that would
help them enforce copyright infringement protection overseas and
allow them to attack file-trading sites based in other countries.
(Wired News, September 2001)
DUELING ESSAY CONTESTS IN FRAY INVOLVING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is hosting
a contest that offers a prize of $600 for the best essay that
answers the question, "What does intellectual property mean to
you in your daily life?" Last week, an organization of academics,
artists, and proponents called Wipout announced a contest that
asks participants to answer the same question, but with a more
critical eye. Wipout's members oppose the extensive intellectual
property protection that WIPO favors, calling such measures
detrimental to the public. Patent laws, for instance, could
hinder access to AIDS drugs in South Africa, according to the
Treatment Action Campaign, one of Wipout's supporters. It
has yet to be seen if WIPO will sue Wipout's self-described
"intellectual property counter-essay contest" for copyright
infringement. (New York Times, 10 September 2001)
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