Project Gutenberg passes another eBooks milestone today, over 23,500 eBooks that have been created by the Project Gutenberg army of volunteers. . . .
!!!!!!!My HUGE Congratulations to all the volunteers!!!!!!!
This is including over 1500 contributions from Project Gutenberg Australia, and about 500 from Project Gutenberg Europe, but DOES NOT INCLUDE well over 75,000 eBooks dontated via http://www.gutenberg.cc to the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, for a grand total of 100,000 eBooks.
Here is the ASCII graph of the PG growth curve since the first schedule for eBook production was introduced as 1990 gave way to 1991.
Note, the margins may be broken by various emailers, so I am also including the graph in an attachment for which you can hopefully set the margins.
-90--91--92--93--94--95--96--97--98--99--00--01--02--03--04--05--06--07-
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23.516 on May 23, 2007 23.5k > 05/07
22,519 on February 23, 2007 22.5k > 02/07
22,001 on November 15, 2006 22k > 11/06
21,500 on October 9, 2006 21.5K > 10/06
21,002 on August 30, 2006 21K > 08/06
20,619 on August 2, 2006 20.5K > 08/06
20,000 on June 21, 2006 20K > 06/06
19,538 in May, 2006 19.5K > 05/06
19,020 On March 31, 2006 19K > 03/06
18,500 on February 13, 2006 18.5K > 02/06
Added ~216 from PG of Europe January 01, 2006 18K > 01/06
Added 1 from PG PrePrint Site, January, 2006 17.5K > 11/05
17K > 08/05
16.5K > 06/05
16K > 04/05
15.5K > 02/05
15K > 01/05
14.5K > 11/04
14K > 10/04
13.5K > 08/04
13K > 06/04
12.5K > 04/04
12K > 03/04
11.5K > 02/04
11K > 01/04
10.5K > 11/03
>>> October 15, 2003 >>> 10K > 10/03
9,500 > 09/03
9,000 > 08/03
8,500 > 07/03
8,000 > 05/03
7,500 > 03/03
Note this graph is in 1/4 years 7,000 > 01/03
6,500 > 12/02
6,000 > 09/02
5,500 > 07/02
5,000 > 04/02
4,500 > 02/02
Added PG Australia in August, 2001 4,000 > 10/01
3,500 > 05/01
3,000 > 12/00
2,500 > 08/00
2,000 > 12/99
1,500 > 10/98
1,000 > 08/97
500 > 4/96
100 >12/93 <<
10 > 12/90 *[This date sometimes written 12/31/90 and sometimes 01/01/91]
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-90--91--92--93--94--95--96--97--98--99--00--01--02--03--04--05--06--07-
Please note that many duplications have been detected and removed, between the various Project Gutenberg sites between 2006 and 2007, so the curve is appearing somewhat less for 2007 than under the old accounting system.
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