The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Jan. 21, 2011
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The 40th Year of PG eBooks Started on July 4, 2010!!!!!
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Please note the serious increase!!!
I can only presume this is due to an extraordinary big
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the near future.
Wow!!!
This Really Is "The Year of the eBook!!!"
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After all these years, Oprah finally made a selection--
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"A Tale Of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations" both by
Charles Dickens and available for years from PG and all
the other eBook distributors who use our materials.
In fact Tale Of Two Cities was one of our first 100 and
is frequently on our Top 100 Downloads List.
The Associated Press and their subscribers seem to give
Project Gutenberg some credit for the fact that a sales
figure for this combined edition by Penguin is not up a
lot higher than it's current 43rd position.
I don't expect Oprah to make do any more public domain,
as I think her selections have been more about the cash
than the materials. I am evenly split on these two, as
I hated Great Expectations, loved Tale of Two Cities.
23 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring
on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011]
Leaving 1 years 11 months, 7 2/3 seasons, or 23 months.
[OR Leaving 0 years, 9 months, 3 seasons. . ..]
[All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.]
Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions,
such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021],
and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the
same time. Current long range prediction for drives:
1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along
with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte=
enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion
books of 1 million characters each.
>From Jan. 21, 2011 to December 21, 2012 is 23 Months.
Jan 21, 2011 to October 11, 2011 is 10 Months -10 days.
PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY IS COMING ON JANUARY 1, 2011
Every new year since the first copyrights expired, back
around 1724, the world has looked forward to expiration
of copyrights and the public domain availability of the
works that have been kept under publishing monopolies.
This coming January 1 Europeans will see a nice list of
great works entering the public domain as the copyright
terms expire, some listed below, but the United States,
where their landmark Supreme Court Case decided that an
extended copyright term could last literally forever, a
person can no longer look forward to such happenings.
In Europe this year some exampes of copyright expiring:
Freud
Havelock Ellis
Zane Grey
William Butler Yeats
etc.
These works will now be available for new life breathed
into them via any number of unauthorized new editions a
host of publishers and private citizens can now create,
including new articles, books, TV shows, videos, movies
and all other forms of media.
Next year many people will ask why the sudden resurgent
interest in Freud, Ellis, Grey, Yeats, etc. and answers
will rarely include the fact that these authors weren't
available for such endeavors before due to copyright.
The media rarely refers to copyright expirations as the
media feels they are dependent are extended copyrights,
though it is hard to really expect that even the modern
Oprah shows of this, her last season, will be of a huge
interest when or if the copyright expires in 2105.
If you are interested in more information search engine
efforts should net you any number of sites via a simple
"public domain day" search.
You will find lists of items entering the public domain
under various copyright terms in other countries, and a
different set of lists of WOULD HAVE BEEN in the U.S.:
Waton and Crick's original Nature article on DNA
Walt Disney's original movie of Peter Pan
The first James Bond adventure: Casino Royale
The first issue of Playboy magazine
Major works by:
Ray Bradbury [Fahrenheit 451]
J.D. Salinger [Nine Stories]
Agatha Christie [A Pocket Full of Rye]
C.S. Lewis [The Silver Chair, #4 in the Narnia series]
James Baldwin [Go Tell It On The Mountain]
Leon Uris [Battle Cry]
not to mention great science fiction works by:
Robert Anson Heinlein
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
In addition all of the first HUGO AWARD winners must be
considered, even though most or all of them were out in
the year or two before the awards were given in 1953.
WARNING: Any number of institutions appear to have the
idea they can take credit for Public Domain Day," and I
would be somewhat suspect of those claims, as copyright
expirations have been taking place on January 1 a long,
long, long time before anyone started celebrating it.
However, one point most of the are making that is worth
the time to pursue is that the public has less and less
in the way of public domain rights, and not just in the
way of extensions that make them last longer than a new
modern day lifetime, but also in those rarely mentioned
new forms of copyright of items that did not used to be
in any manner copyrightable, such as sports box scores.
Now, in my estimation, there isn't any new intellectual
input required to write box scores, any more than to do
the making of a telephone book, which has been ruled as
not copyrightable, so obviously things are changing now
even more than they already have, to the point where it
appears nearly everything will be copyrightable.
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Pro-Active Information About New Copyright Extensions
As many of you know, just 5 years ago or so Australia's
Parliament voted a resolution to resist those copyright
extensions that had recently taken place in the US, EU,
and other locations, but only a few years later tumbled
into line after a few rounds of economic warfare levied
upon them by The Mouse or other long copyright holders.
What many of you may not remember is how the copyrights
were extended in the U.S. in 1998 and 1976 without even
anything like the publicity in Australia or recently in
Canada where it appears they might be the first country
to actually resist such economic warfare efforts.
If you don't think this deserves the term "warfare" and
that it is really not such, perhaps you should consider
that the 1998 U.S. Copyright Act was passed at the same
time as President Clinton's impeachment bill was passed
and done behind closed doors in a "voice vote" where it
was not recorded who voted which way.
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been impeached when it would so obviously fail with far
more votes missing that would have made it interesting.
What they do NOT do is answer that question by listing,
even with just a short list, the other bills that their
special interests got passed, hidden behind smokescreen
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This is very powerful political maneuvering, and should
be brought to light, even if it cannot be stopped.
Perhaps there is time enough to shed light on these new
bills coming up to continue the ad infinitum extensions
of copyright that have changed the U.S. from having the
shortest copyright terms to having the longest in those
89 years from 1909 to 1998 when U.S. copyright extended
from 42 years maximum with rewnewals to 95 years and no
renewal required. . .even though 92% of all books would
never be renewed via the simple paperwork and the small
nominal fee that was required.
If nothing is done to dissuade Congress from doing this
The Supreme Court has already given them the power from
their point of view to extend as long as they want, and
that makes permanent copyright of Mickey Mouse a given,
and everything else of that era along with it including
Winnie The Pooh [1928 and 1926, respectively.] The new
current U.S. copyrights already date back to 1923 so it
is obvious that Disney has the powerful vested interest
required to keep the lobbying pressure on Congress.
It should be noted that in The Supreme Court case lists
of Eldred v Ashcroft [originally set as Hart v Reno] it
was the Disney representative who got the best seats as
Eric Eldred was confined to the back row as Rosa Parks,
who won her case, and didn't have to sit in the back of
the bus, but had to sit in the back of the courtroom.
Hopefully there is time enough and interst enough to do
something to bring attention to this matter before vote
time for the next such copyright extension.
If they pass another such extension, the odds are we'll
have no more public domain books for Project Gutenberg.
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APPROACHING NEWS. . . .
ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS,
DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS!
THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!!
Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this
upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!!
Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various
copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S.
In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced
in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite
literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years.
Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!!
When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in
Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would
NOT extend copyrights.
Really.
However, just three years later, under economic warfare
from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled
to the pressure and gave in.
The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position--
and while some tell me they have enough signatures from
those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that
they, too, crumble before it is over.
I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!!
Further Information
As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the
characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928],
start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will
be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills
that are designed to go into effect before anything can
happen to those two copyrights.
As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort,
successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid
as a result an additional $200 million for the right to
another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the
fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the
effective date of 1978.
As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse,
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted
to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross.
Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what
must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last
few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this
means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite
soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018.
Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a
session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a
snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out
starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see.
Why?
Even during the election just before the last extension
I went to ask televised press conference questions on a
new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate
responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing."
I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask
the same question in 2015 they will get that answer.
Or non-answer.
>From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement
to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make
all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of
making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first
viewing premise [except public stations].
We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries--
cable products showing up on network television and the
opposite direction as well.
What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the
allowed buyer of NBC?
If you think programming won't leak over:
Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC.
Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed
output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons.
Anyone remember Reboot?
I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and
I fear that all of them underestimate the power working
to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words
"limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description.
However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is
really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft."
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Week up to January 21
day | cnt
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Fri 2011-01-14 | 7
Sat 2011-01-15 | 20
Sun 2011-01-16 | 7
Mon 2011-01-17 | 11
Tue 2011-01-18 | 4
Wed 2011-01-19 | 8
Thu 2011-01-20 | 11
Weekly total = 68
Week up to December 21
day | cnt
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Tue 2010-12-14 | 7
Wed 2010-12-15 | 13
Thu 2010-12-16 | 11
Fri 2010-12-17 | 1
Sat 2010-12-18 | 8
Sun 2010-12-19 | 12
Mon 2010-12-20 | 8
Weekly total = 60
Week up to November 21
day | cnt
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Sun 2010-11-14 | 14
Mon 2010-11-15 | 11
Tue 2010-11-16 | 10
Wed 2010-11-17 | 9
Thu 2010-11-18 | 12
Fri 2010-11-19 | 4
Sat 2010-11-20 | 11
Weekly total = 71
Week up to October 21
day | cnt
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Thu 2010-10-14 | 10
Fri 2010-10-15 | 18
Sat 2010-10-16 | 10
Sun 2010-10-17 | 9
Mon 2010-10-18 | 15
Tue 2010-10-19 | 10
Wed 2010-10-20 | 10
Weekly total = 77
[Note: last two months
were often much lower]
Week up to September 21
day | cnt
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Tue 2010-09-14 | 10
Wed 2010-09-15 | 4
Thu 2010-09-16 | 7
Fri 2010-09-17 | 12
Sat 2010-09-18 | 5
Sun 2010-09-19 | 7
Mon 2010-09-20 | 19
Weekly total = 64
Week up to August 21
day | cnt
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Sat 2010-08-14 | 8
Sun 2010-08-15 | 9
Mon 2010-08-16 | 7
Tue 2010-08-17 | 7
Wed 2010-08-18 | 7
Thu 2010-08-19 | 5
Fri 2010-08-20 | 5
Weekly total = 48
[Lots of people on vacation]
Week up to July 21
day | cnt
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Wed 2010-07-14 | 9
Thu 2010-07-15 | 21
Fri 2010-07-16 | 6
Sat 2010-07-17 | 6
Sun 2010-07-18 | 6
Mon 2010-07-19 | 5
Tue 2010-07-20 | 9
Weekly total = 62
Week up to June 21
day | cnt
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Mon 2010-06-14 | 15
Tue 2010-06-15 | 10
Wed 2010-06-16 | 17
Thu 2010-06-17 | 20
Fri 2010-06-18 | 20
Sat 2010-06-19 | 17
Sun 2010-06-20 | 35
Weekly total = 134
Week up to May 21
day | cnt
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Fri 2010-05-14 | 8
Sat 2010-05-15 | 20
Sun 2010-05-16 | 7
Mon 2010-05-17 | 7
Tue 2010-05-18 | 12
Wed 2010-05-19 | 25
Thu 2010-05-20 | 19
Weekly total = 88
week up to Apr. 21
day | cnt
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Wed 2010-04-14 | 14
Thu 2010-04-15 | 11
Fri 2010-04-16 | 12
Sat 2010-04-17 | 19
Sun 2010-04-18 | 12
Mon 2010-04-19 | 19
Tue 2010-04-20 | 7
Weekly total = 94
week up to Mar. 21
day | cnt
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Sun 2010-03-14 | 9
Mon 2010-03-15 | 16
Tue 2010-03-16 | 11
Wed 2010-03-17 | 12
Thu 2010-03-18 | 16
Fri 2010-03-19 | 6
Sat 2010-03-20 | 11
Weekly total = 81
Week up to Feb. 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Sun 2010-02-14 | 5
Mon 2010-02-15 | 12
Tue 2010-02-16 | 10
Wed 2010-02-17 | 16
Thu 2010-02-18 | 11
Fri 2010-02-19 | 4
Sat 2010-02-20 | 4
Weekly total = 62
Week up to Jan. 21st:
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Thu 2010-01-14 | 8
Fri 2010-01-15 | 13
Sat 2010-01-16 | 16
Sun 2010-01-17 | 8
Mon 2010-01-18 | 12
Tue 2010-01-19 | 5
Wed 2010-01-20 | 11
Weekly total = 73
Previous Month 12/09
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Mon 2009-12-14 | 11
Tue 2009-12-15 | 4
Wed 2009-12-16 | 4
Thu 2009-12-17 | 10
Fri 2009-12-18 | 7
Sat 2009-12-19 | 7
Sun 2009-12-20 | 9
Previous month: 11/09
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Sat 2009-11-14 | 6
Sun 2009-11-15 | 4
Mon 2009-11-16 | 6
Tue 2009-11-17 | 9
Wed 2009-11-18 | 3
Thu 2009-11-19 | 6
Fri 2009-11-20 | 5
Weekly total = 39
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner for these figures!
///
Here are the current language totals
for languages with 100 or more eBooks.
Grand total for today: 34931
1 29295 English en
2 1723 French fr
3 730 German de
4 563 Finnish fi
5 513 Dutch nl
6 505 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 299 Spanish es
9 266 Italian it
10 122 Greek el
December 21st
Grand total for today: 34616
1 29054 English en
2 1709 French fr
3 724 German de
4 551 Finnish fi
5 508 Dutch nl
6 494 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 298 Spanish es
9 262 Italian it
10 110 Greek el
Grand total for today: 34291
November 21st
1 28791 English en
2 1685 French fr
3 718 German de
4 544 Finnish fi
5 501 Dutch nl
6 488 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 297 Spanish es
9 255 Italian it
10 108 Greek el
Grand total for today: 33980
October 21st
1 28548 English en
2 1664 French fr
3 713 German de
4 540 Finnish fi
5 497 Dutch nl
6 473 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 296 Spanish es
9 253 Italian it
10 102 Greek el
Grand total for today: 33676
September 21st
1 28304 English en
2 1652 French fr
3 706 German de
4 534 Finnish fi
5 493 Dutch nl
6 467 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 294 Spanish es
9 244 Italian it
10 100 Greek el
August 21st
1 28047 English en
2 1633 French fr
3 701 German de
4 532 Finnish fi
5 487 Dutch nl
6 460 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 292 Spanish es
9 244 Italian it
Please note:
10 97 Greek el
July 21st
Grand total for today: 33108
1 27832 English en
2 1617 French fr
3 692 German de
4 531 Finnish fi
5 482 Dutch nl
6 456 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 287 Spanish es
9 244 Italian it
June 21st
Grand total for today: 32841
1 27597 English en
2 1605 French fr
3 685 German de
4 529 Finnish fi
5 481 Dutch nl
6 450 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 287 Spanish es
9 244 Italian it
May 21st
Grand total for today: 32366
1 27176 English en
2 1598 French fr
3 680 German de
4 527 Finnish fi
5 479 Dutch nl
6 433 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 287 Spanish es
9 242 Italian it
Apr 21st
Grand total for today: 31975
26832 English en
1590 French fr
674 German de
526 Finnish fi
476 Dutch nl
424 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
284 Spanish es
236 Italian it
N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language,
up to the top two, of course, tied for third.
What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running?
Mar 21st
Grand total for today: 31616
26540 English en
1568 French fr
662 German de
524 Finnish fi
472 Dutch nl
410 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
283 Spanish es
235 Italian it
Feb. 21st
Grand total for today: 31234
26241 English en
1557 French fr
647 German de
521 Finnish fi
470 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
395 Portuguese pt
275 Spanish es
234 Italian it
Jan. 21st
Grand total for today: 30935
25995 English en
1547 French fr
628 German de
518 Finnish fi
459 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
391 Portuguese pt
274 Spanish es
230 Italian it
Compared to the last month:
Grand total
25757 English en
1520 French fr
618 German de
515 Finnish fi
453 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
376 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
220 Italian it
Compared to previous month's:
Grand total for today: 30399
25587 English en
1498 French fr
614 German de
515 Finnish fi
451 Dutch nl
404 Chinese zh
371 Portuguese pt
268 Spanish es
218 Italian it
Previous increases:
+214
+205
+254
+281
+294
+287
All Reported Languges
Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe
Thanks to Greg Newby!
///
>From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide
[Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf]
January 21st
Grand total for today:
34,931 up from 34,616 up 315 PG General Automated Count
1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia
756@ up from 749@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
701 up from 678 up 18 PG of Canada
=====
39,556 UP from 39,218 UP 333/334 Grand Total [Off by 1]
December 21st
Grand total for today:
34,616 up from 34,291 up 325 PG General Automated Count
1,915 up from 1,890 up 25 PG of Australia
749@ up from 742@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
678 up from 660 up 18 PG of Canada
=====
39,218 UP from 38,850 UP 368/368 Grand Total [Off by 0]
November 21st
Grand total for today:
34,291 up from 33,980 up 311 PG General Automated Count
1,890 up from 1,890 up 0 PG of Australia
749@ up from 736@ up 13@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
660 up from 639 up 21 PG of Canada
=====
38,850 UP from 38,518 UP 332 Grand Total [Off by 0]
October 21st
Grand total for today:
33,980 up from 33,676 up 304 PG General Automated Count
1,890 up from 1,871 up 19 PG of Australia
736@ up from 728@ up 12@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
639 up from 619 up 20 PG of Canada
======
38,518 UP from 38,175 UP 343 Grand Total [Off by 0]
September 21st
Grand total for today:
33,676 up from 33,372 up 304 PG General Automated Count
1,871 up from 1,870 up 1 PG of Australia
728@ up from 723@ up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,008 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved
619 up from 598 up 21 PG of Canada
======
38,175 UP from 37,848 UP 327 Grand Total
@
Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe
entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope
we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total
figures are somewhere in between:
August 21st
Grand total for today:
33,372 up from 33,108 up 264 PG General Automated Count
1,870 up from 1,866 up 4 PG of Australia
723@ up from 719@ up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
598 up from 576 up 22 PG of Canada
======
37,848 up from 37,588 UP 260 Grand Total
Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe
entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope
we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total
figures are somewhere in between:
This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system:
38,571 up from 38,277 up 294 Grand Total [off by 2]
[41 entries are still listed as reserved, and the automated
count still seems to have missed about 100 completed eBooks
but I'm leaving both of those out for the moment.]
July 21st
Grand total for today:
33,108 up from 32,841 up 257 PG General Automated Count
1,866 up from 1,854 up 12 PG of Australia
719@ up from 716 up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
576 up from 558 up 18 PG of Canada
======
37,588 DN from 37,977 DN 489 Grand Total
This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system:
38,277 up from 37,977 up 292 Grand Total [off by 2]
As above:
Please note that the Project Gutenberg of Europe entries have
apparently all been fed to general Project Gutenberg counting
systems, though I was originally told they were not due to an
apparently different copyright system. However I am told now
that they all were selected to work under US copyright.
I will continue to research this and make updates.
I think I made an error here, beyone the "off by 2" so if you
figure this out better, please let me know.
Right now I'm just taking people's word for all this and will
have to make future updates and announcements, but give these
weeks included the start of our 40th year, I wanted to made a
change at this time for recording purposes of this year.
June 21st
Grand total for today:
32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count
1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation]
716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada
======
37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total
May 21st
Grand totals for today:
32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count
1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation]
712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada
======
37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost one!]
Apr 21st
Grand totals for today:
31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count
1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???]
704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada
======
37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total [off by 1, ooops!]
700th PGEu eBook Posted!!!
Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours.
Mar 21st
Grand totals for today:
31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count
1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia
699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada
======
36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total
Feb 21st
Grand totals for today:
31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count
1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia
684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
July: 14 (Title 349 to 362)
August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378)
September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395)
October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408)
November: 9 [up to November 21]
December: 19[up to December 21]
======
36,254 up from 35,919 up 335
Jan 21st
Grand totals for today:
30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count
1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia
680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
======
35,919 up from 35,551 up 368
Previous month:
35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations]
35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2]
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.
///
Here is how we ended 2009
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2009-12-30 | 9
Thu 2009-12-31 | 12
Fri 2010-01-01 | 6
Sat 2010-01-02 | 10
Sun 2010-01-03 | 2
Mon 2010-01-04 | 21
Tue 2010-01-05 | 5
Weekly Total 65
December 21, 2009
Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter
25866 English en
1531 French fr
625 German de
517 Finnish fi
455 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
384 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
225 Italian it
etc.
30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks]
====== ======
35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions]
9.825 eBooks Per Day
68.773 eBooks Per Week
297.850 eBooks Per Month
///
Here is how we ended 2008
27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
[202 up to December, no current report]
2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
====== ======
32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
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 [Over 4,000 for the year]
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost
to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
100 eBooks in Greek as of September, 2010
TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about
the number of books in the average U.S. public library
32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints]
[And presuming 3 after official count]
32,000 on Calculating
31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
30,000 on 20081021
29,500 on 20080919
29,000 ~~ Calculating
28,500 ~~ Calculating
28,000 ~~ 20080516
27,500 on 20080405
27,000 ~~ 20080229
26,500 on 20080126
26,000 on 20071224
25,000 on 20071012
24,000 on 20070710
23,000 on 20070415
PG-AU
1,700 on 20081010
1,600 on 20080208
1,500 on 20070407
PG Canada
175 on 20080930
100 on 20080325
110 on 20080417
///
Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 40th year!
Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg
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