The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter Extra--Jan. 21, 2011
eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971
Project Gutenberg Ends One Year And Starts Another
Here are our totals for 2010
34,759 Up 3,998 From 30,761 PG General Automated Count
1,915 Up 185 From 1,830 Project Gutenberg of Australia
750* Up 75* From 675* Project Gutenberg of Europe *Not totaled
692 Up 224 From 468 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,009 Up 1 From 2,008 PrePrints
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39,375 Up 4,408 From 35,067 Grand Total [Counting some subtractions]
12.077 eBooks Per Day
84.969 eBooks Per Week
367.333 eBooks Per Month
My apologies for not getting this out earlier, I was on the road.
Noon, January 6, 2011, is the end of our calendar production year
number 40 and the beginning of our 41st year, though our 40 years
of calendar time won't be complete until July 5, 2011. This date
is due to our previous calendar being a weekly one running from a
Wednesday noon to the next Wednesday noon. Once someone else has
taken over the Newsletters, they are welcome to change this to an
alternate date such as midnight January 1, but I was always awake
and working at noon, and able to send out weekly newsletters so I
just did what worked on that schedule.
HEADLINE NEWS
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39,375 is our current total for internally manufactured eBooks:
4,408 more than last year's 35,067 final grand total!
If we continue to average about 12 per day it should take perhaps
another 50 days or 7 weeks to get to #40,000, which should be in
the days when Winter is turning to to Spring.
This means we should be ahead of 40,000 eBooks in 40 years.
Who would have thought when we had created and posted:
1 eBook in 1971
10 eBooks in 1990
100 eBooks in 1993
1,000 eBooks in 1997
10,000 eBooks in 2003
we would have created and posted 40,000 eBooks by early in 2011?
and 100,000 counting those donated by other eLibraries?
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Public Domain Day
The first day of each year is Public Domain Day, when we list the
works that would have gone into the public domain that day if not
for the most recent two copyright extensions [but don't forget we
have had more extensions from the original 14 years].
PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY IS NOW CELEBRATED EVERT JANUARY 1
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.
Notable items that would have been public domain a year ago:
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. . .How True. . .How True!!!
Walt Disney's Peter Pan. . .Is Copyright The New Captain Hook?
The First James Bond Book, Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming
Early books by Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller, Leon Uris, Jas Baldwin
Watson and Crick's Original "Nature" Article on DNA
C.S. Lewis' The Silver Chair
Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March.
Salinger's Nine Stories
>From Here To Eternity
Asimov's Second Foundation
Early works of Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, E.E. Smith, van Vogt
War of the Worlds
Julius Caesar movie [James Mason, Marlon Brando, etc.]
Before these last two major copyright extensions renewals were of
legal necessity to double the length of copyright terms, and most
works were never renewed; ONLY 15% of all copyrights, 8% of books
were ever renewed: meaning the vast majority of everything under
copyright before 1982 would be in the public domain.
Read more about this at:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pre1976
and related web pages.
These are great articles by a great copyright lawyer.
Milestones Of The Year
In 2010 we saw our 39,000th internally produced eBook go out, and
our 29,000th in English, our 1,700th in French, 700th in German--
and our next eBook in Spanish will be #300; we also saw Dutch and
Portuguese pass 500 eBooks and Greek has moved from less than 100
to 112 just in the last handful of week.
We still need to find ways to do more in Spanish and Portuguese.
These 39,000+ eBooks representing over 50 languages are at:
http://www.gutenberg.org
75,000+ Donated eBooks representing over 100 languages are at:
http://www.gutenberg.cc
100,000 Total Titles
In toto, counting the eBooks donated to us from other eLibraries,
individuals and schools at http://www.gutenberg.cc we now have in
well excess of 100,000 titles, though it is probably closer to an
even 100,000, given various duplications, etc.
Production Year Statistics
The numbers presented below will approximate what are recorded as
of noon on January 6, and the production year will be recorded as
running last year from Wednesday, January 7, 2009 through January
6, 2010, and the coming year will end on January 5, 2011.
Thus we had 52 Wednesdays this past year for 364 days; every once
in a while we get 53 production weeks on this calendar, which has
to be one reason for eventually changing it.
Here is how we ended 2010
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2010-12-29 | 6
Thu 2010-12-30 | 13
Fri 2010-12-31 | 8
Sat 2011-01-01 | 10
Sun 2011-01-02 | 12
Mon 2011-01-03 | 14
Tue 2011-01-04 | 8
Weekly Total 73
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
Here are our totals for 2010
Grand total for today: 34759
1 29158 English en
2 1715 French fr
3 730 German de
4 559 Finnish fi
5 509 Dutch nl
6 500 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 299 Spanish es
9 264 Italian it
10 114 Greek el
11 75 Latin la
12 71 Esperanto eo
13 68 Swedish sv
14 54 Tagalog tl
15 33 Danish da
16 28 Polish pl
17 27 Catalan ca
18 20 Hungarian hu
19 15 Norwegian no
20 12 Japanese ja
Here are our totals for 2010
34,759 Up 3,998 From 30,761 PG General Automated Count
1,915 Up 185 From 1,830 Project Gutenberg of Australia
750* Up 75* From 675* Project Gutenberg of Europe *Not totaled
692 Up 224 From 468 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,009 Up 1 From 2,008 PrePrints
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39,375 Up 4,408 From 35,742 Grand Total [Counting some subtractions]
35,067 *Subtracting Europe From 2009
<<<<
12.077 eBooks Per Day
84.969 eBooks Per Week
367.333 eBooks Per Month
Here is how we ended 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 <<<<<
Here are our totals for 2009
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]
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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
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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]
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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
Production Year Statistics From Last Year
The numbers presented below will approximate what are recorded as
of noon on January 6, and the production year will be recorded as
running last year from Wednesday, January 7, 2009 through January
6, 2010, and the coming year will end on January 5, 2011.
Thus we had 52 Wednesdays this past year for 364 days; every once
in a while we get 53 production weeks on this calendar, which has
to be one reason for eventually changing it.
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
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;
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 ~~ Rechecking Date
31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
30,000 on 20081021
29,500 on 20080919
29,000 ~~ Rechecking Date
28,500 ~~ Rechecking Date
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
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