/The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, Aug. 21, 2008/
e-Books Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971
52 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring!
This leaves 4 1/4 years, 17 1/3 seasons, or 52 months.
Not to worry. I will still make predictions further on.
Requesting A Second Time
I need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations.
One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes.
In addition, I will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and totals from PG of
Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc.
These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at:
http://www.gutenberg.cc
Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages.
These are the various totals from the ~29,000 at:
http://www.gutenberg.org
Here is the output for the current week:
Subject: Yet Another Progress Report
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Thu 2008-08-14 | 10
Fri 2008-08-15 | 8
Sat 2008-08-16 | 10
Sun 2008-08-17 | 6
Mon 2008-08-18 | 15
Tue 2008-08-19 | 10
Wed 2008-08-20 | 14
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!
Here are the current language totals
for languages with over 100 eBooks.
Grand total for today: 26272
22432 English en
1217 French fr
540 German de
456 Finnish fi
349 Dutch nl
320 Chinese zh
250 Portuguese pt
197 Spanish es
153 Italian it
Thanks to Greg Newby!
Current Totals
26,272 Project Gutenberg Under US Copyright Law
1,672 Project Gutenberg Of Australia +22
515 Project Gutenberg of Europe +7
152 *Project Gutenberg of Canada +14 [for July]
377 Project Gutenberg PrePrints +00
Note: Books move up out of PrePrints ====== 28,988Grand Total ///
[About as many as the average public library]
eustats
preprints
PG Europe just posted their eBook #500!!!
PG Australia posted their eBook #1674 on Aug. 21, 2008 PG Canada posted their
eBook #152 in July, 2008 PG US posted their eBook #25,000 on April 20, 2008 PG
US just posted their 1200th eBook in French.
This is more than double any other language.
Note: There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in
circulation from Project Gutenberg.
Note: PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.
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Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161
titles.
The most number of books posted...
...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
We averaged
338 per month
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles had been REposted to the new filing system,
bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
TOTAL "Original Project Gutenberg eBooks"
* 28,000 ~~ 2008/05/16 About the number of books in
* 27,500 on 2008/04/05 the average US public library
* 27,000 ~~ 2008/02/29*
* 26,500 on 2008/01/26
* 26,000 on 2007/12/24
* 25,000 on 2007/10/12
* 24,000 on 2007/07/10
* 23,000 on 2007/04/15
Under US Copyright Law
* 25,500 ~~ 2008/05/27
* 25,000 on 2008/03/20
* 24,000 on 2007/12/27
* 22,500 on 2007/09/09
PG-AU
* 1,600 on 2008/02/08
* 1,500 on 2007/04/07
PG Canada
* 100 on 2008/03/25
* 110 on 2008/04/17
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