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Here Are The Updated Listings For This Week *** +36 New this week: *** Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, xxxxx11.txt, and VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, xxxxx10a.txt, as --Please note the following changes, corrections and improvements: May 2004 Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Various [ldnnhxxx.xxx]5637 Was Replaced By: May 2004 Literary and Philosophical Essays, by Various [litpexxx.xxx]5637 May 2004 The Great Salt Trail, by Colonel Henry Inman [?gsltxxx.xxx]5718 Changed To: May 2004 The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Colonel Henry Inman [?gsltxxx.xxx]5718 ***] 3 NEW ETEXTS FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA [*** Aug 2002 Anthony Adverse, by Hervey Allen [HA#01][020054xx.xxx]0088A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200541.txt or .ZIP] Aug 2002 The Aristocratic Miss Brewster,by J Lincoln[JL#03][020053xx.xxx]0087A [Author's full name: Joseph C Lincoln] [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200531.txt or .ZIP] Aug 2002 The War Chief, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [EB#08][020052xx.xxx]0086A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200521.txt or .ZIP] Etexts are held in TXT and/or ZIP formats. To access these etexts, go to http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty For more information about Project Gutenberg of Australia, including accessing those etexts from outside of Australia, please visit: http://promo.net/pg/pgau.html --Project Gutenberg of Australia-- --A treasure trove of Literature-- *treasure-trove n. treasure found hidden with no evidence of ownership For more information about about copyright restrictions in other countries, please visit: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html ***] 33 NEW U.S. POSTS [*** Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by Parker, Complete [GP#07][gp07wxxx.xxx]6179 [Subtitle: Tales Of The Far North][Author: Gilbert Parker] [Contains: Ebooks #6074-6078 with the Contents Listed Below.] Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V5 [GP#06][gp06wxxx.xxx]6178 Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V4 [GP#05][gp05wxxx.xxx]6177 Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V3 [GP#04][gp04wxxx.xxx]6176 Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V2 [GP#03][gp03wxxx.xxx]6175 Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V1 [GP#02][gp02wxxx.xxx]6174 May 2004 The Lau Language, by Walter G. Ivens [laulnxxx.xxx]5762 [Full title: Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language] May 2004 Two Trips to Gorilla Land 2, Richard F. Burton[20][?gor2xxx.xxx]5761 [Full Title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2, by Richard F. Burton] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gor210.txt and 7gor210.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8gor210.txt and 8gor210.zip] May 2004 Two Trips to Gorilla Land 1, Richard F. Burton[19][?gor1xxx.xxx]5760 [Full Title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1, by Richard F. Burton] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gor110.txt and 7gor110.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8gor110.txt and 8gor110.zip] May 2004 The Day of the Dog, by George Barr McCutcheon [#4][dftdgxxx.xxx]5759 May 2004 Many Cargoes, by W. W. Jacobs [mncrgxxx.xxx]5758 May 2004 The Maid of Maiden Lane, by Amelia E. Barr[Barr#3][mdmdnxxx.xxx]5757 May 2004 The Guest of Quesnay, by Booth Tarkington [BT#12][qsnayxxx.xxx]5756 May 2004 The Fool Errant, by Maurice Hewlett [flrrnxxx.xxx]5755 May 2004 Lysbeth, A Tale Of The Dutch,H. Rider Haggard[#41][lsbthxxx.xxx]5754 May 2004 St. George and St. Michael, by G. MacDonald [#15][ssgmcxxx.xxx]5753 May 2004 St. George and St. Michael V3, G. MacDonald [#14][ssgm3xxx.xxx]5752 May 2004 St. George and St. Michael V2, G. MacDonald [#13][ssgm2xxx.xxx]5751 May 2004 St. George and St. Michael V1, G. MacDonald [#12][ssgm1xxx.xxx]5750 May 2004 Comedies, by Ludvig Holberg [cmdhlxxx.xxx]5749 [Translated by Oscar James Campbell, Jr. and Frederic Schenck] May 2004 In Secret, by Robert W. Chambers [Chambers#2][nscrtxxx.xxx]5748 May 2004 Do and Dare, by Horatio Alger, Jr [Alger#17][dnddrxxx.xxx]5747 May 2004 The Ancient Allan, by H. Rider Haggard[Haggard#40][?nctlxxx.xxx]5746 May 2004 She and Allan, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard#39][shllnxxx.xxx]5745 May 2004 The Fat and the Thin, by Emile Zola [Zola#9][ftthnxxx.xxx]5744 The Section Below Completes This Series Of Georg Ebers #5439-5499 & #5501-5599 May 2004 The Complete PG Edition Of Georg Ebers [GE#161][g161vxxx.xxx]5600 [Contains eBooks #5439-5499 and #5501-5599] [Size: 15mb] Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Ebers, Complete [GE#160][g160vxxx.xxx]5599 [Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5593-5598] Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#159][g159vxxx.xxx]5598 Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#158][g158vxxx.xxx]5597 Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#157][g157vxxx.xxx]5596 Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#156][g156vxxx.xxx]5595 Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#155][g155vxxx.xxx]5594 Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#154][g154vxxx.xxx]5593 *** Statistical Review (This number includes the 88 etexts posted at the PG Australia web site) In the first 34 weeks of the new year, we have produced 1,529 new eBooks. The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks of production, each production-week starting/ending Wednesday noon, starting with the first Wednesday in January. January 2nd was was the first Wednesday of 2002, and thus ended the production With 5,826 eTexts online as of August 21th, 2002 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.72 from each book, for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One Trillion Dollars] in books. 100,000,000 readers is only about 1.6 percent of the world's population! This "cost" is down from $2.63 when we had 3806 Etexts A Year Ago Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing $.91 less a year later??? Or. . .would this say it better? Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing 33% less a year later??? At 5818 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged At 1526 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged ***Headline News*** [My Comments In Brackets] Headlines From Newsscan [This Article Mentioned Project Gutenberg As A Prime Example Of What Is Great About The Internet] SLEAZE ON THE NET Not many Internet companies (the ones still in business) are making any money, and only a few of them (e.g., eBay and Amazon) stand as exceptions to that general rule. [We should admit here that NewsScan is also "profitable" -- but we eat like birds.] Most Internet money is derived from sleaze, phony products, pyramid schemes, and spam. What should one think about all this? Science fiction writer Bruce Sperling says that cyberspace is "debasing itself in front of our eyes," and warns that "we will lose the Internet if industry has its charlatans, and e-commerce is getting its share. I don't see evidence that it is more than you would expect, especially in a new industry." Sleaze even has its champions, especially among those who participate in such activities. David Marchlak, who created a "voyeur" site that follows the dorm-room activities of young college women in Florida, of dollars spent on it every year. We're not forcing it on anybody." Some thoughtful Internet observers of the Internet, such as Gary Chapman and Brewster Kahle, suggest that the enormous diversity of content on the Internet means that that the good outweighs the bad. Chapman (of the practically every day by something new on the Internet... At this point, it's almost impossible to characterize what the Internet is like." Brewster Kahle (founder of the Wayback Machine, which archives the Internet) reminds three verse of the 'Gilligan's Island' theme song. I don't want my children to grow up like that." (New York Times 26 Aug 2002) http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/technology/26CYBE.html [What Did I Say About Combining Cellphones and PDAs, etc??? Hee hee!] VIDEO CLIPS BY CELL PHONE Japan's second-largest wireless company, KDDI, has developed a service that will allow subscribers to send and receive videos on their mobile phones, using a new video camera-equipped phone made by Toshiba. The phone comes with a secure digital memory card that can store up to 555 five-second video clips. KDDI president Tadashi Onodera is brimming with optimism about the light-weight, high-resolution phone, which will be priced in the switch to high-end and feature-rich handsets." KDDI rivals J-Phone and Vodafone already have movie e-mail services, but KDDI says it is the first company to offer clips lasting as long as 15 seconds. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 26 Aug 2002) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3940309.htm BT LOSES BATTLE TO CLAIM HYPERLINK ROYALTIES In a test case for British Telecom's claim that it owns a patent on hyperlinking technology, U.S. Judge Colleen McMahon has dismissed BT's claims, saying that Prodigy's use of the technology did not infringe on BT's 25-year-old patent. McMahon found several flaws in BT's argument, most notably that the Internet has no "central computer" as described in the original patent filing. As part of its defense, Prodigy offered a 1968 video by Stanford University computer scientist Douglas Engelbart apparently demonstrating hypertext technology, eight years before BT filed its patent application in the U.S. (BBC News 23 Aug 2002) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2212203.stm STOP THE TECHNOLOGY, I WANT TO GET ON If companies would just stop inventing things a consumer would know what to do. DVDs are still all the rage, but movie-watchers are now being offered VHS tapes but provide about twice the resolution of DVDs. Critic Mike improvement over DVD. It leaves DVD in the dust, as difficult as that might be for DVD's growing legion of fans to visualize. The difference was so stunning that after watching D-Theater versions of U-571, Terminator 2, and End of Days, the DVDs looked as if the lens had gone slightly out of focus." Sigh. We'll call it progress. (USA Today 28 Aug 2002) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/2002-08-27-digital-recorde r_x.htm CELL PHONE NUMBER PORTABILITY COULD LEAD TO CHURN SPIKE A new regulation that would enable cell phone users to take their number with them when they switch carriers could generate a spike in customer turnover, or churn, at least in the short term, says analyst Ken Hyers at but then the pain will diminish. Carriers should accept that rule as inevitable and move forward." Hyers predicts that about 46% of U.S. mobile customers will switch to a rival operator in the year following the regulation's November 2003 implementation. That compares with an estimated current turnover rate of 30%. Similar rules in Australia, Hong Kong and parts of Europe have resulted in churn rates increasing by 25% to 50%, says In-Stat. In addition to the probability of losing customers, wireless firms will have to face increased outlays of between $900 million and $1 billion to upgrade their networks and software in order to accommodate number portability. But telecom analyst Jeff Kagan says the final result could be a mobile as their primary phone but that is a goal of the industry. Once it happens, the bottom line is that customers will scream if they have to change their number. The way to keep customers happy is not to trap them but to give them a reason to stay." 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