The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, April 21, 2008
e-Books Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971
56 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring!
This leaves 4 2/3 years, 18 2/3 seasons, or 56 months...
Not to worry. I will still make predictions further on.
HEADLINE NEWS
As of today, April 21, 2008, original "Project Gutenberg
eBook" site totals have reached 25,000, having passed on
from 24,998 in the period since yesterday's totals for a
new total of 25,004.
eBook #25,000 is:
English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher
25000
[Editor: Alfred Pollard]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/0/0/25000 ]
[Files: 25000.txt; 25000-8.txt; 25000-h.htm]
Thanks to Suzanne Lybarger, Jane Hyland, Brian Janes and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net
Please do not forget the 1600+ from PG of Australia, the
~500 from PG Europe, and the ~100 from PG Canada, with a
detailed list included below.
Exact figures follow the rest of the Newsletter.
As we have seen, our current batch of volunteers for the
Project Gutenberg Newsletters is now down to about zero,
so Greg Newby, PG CEO, and I are working up a revival so
if you would like to contribute or take over, email us.
I will continue to create The Monthly Newsletter, and to
get it out around the 21st of each month, counting down,
month by month, to the end of the Mayan calendar date of
December 21, 2012.
Note: There won't be any new postings from PG Australia
for the rest of April, May, and possibly June.
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Second Request!
If there are any experts out there in Perl or Excel, you
would be greatly appreciated in helping us with numbers;
daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. We can provide data,
and hopefully you can provide us with weekly, monthly or
yearly totals for these Newsletters.
If you would like a complete listing of each book title,
and the accompanying data, we do have a daily listing to
subscribe to, which also includes additional data on the
book as it is uploaded for final preparation.
First Request
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
Here is the output for the current week:
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Mon 2008-04-14 | 5
Tue 2008-04-15 | 5
Wed 2008-04-16 | 4
Thu 2008-04-17 | 5
Fri 2008-04-18 | 12
Sat 2008-04-19 | 11
Sun 2008-04-20 | 2
[partial day]
Current Totals
25,004 Project Gutenberg Under US Copyright Law
1,624 Project Gutenberg Of Australia +6
494 Project Gutenberg of Europe +3
110 Project Gutenberg of Canada +12
387 Project Gutenberg PrePrints +0
======
27,619 Grand Total
[About as many as the average public library]
PG Australia posted their eBook #1600 on Feb. 8, 2008
PG Canada posted their eBook #100 on March 25, 2008
PG US posted their eBook #25,000 on April 20, 2008
Note: PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.
Top Language Totals
21475 English en
1168 French fr
530 German de
433 Finnish fi
326 Dutch nl
217 Portuguese pt
196 Chinese zh
180 Spanish es
128 Italian it
55 Latin la
54 Tagalog tl
45 Esperanto eo
40 Swedish sv
20 Danish da
19 Catalan ca
10 Welsh cy
10 Norwegian no
7 Russian ru
7 Icelandic is
7 Hungarian hu
6 Middle English enm
6 Greek el
6 Bulgarian bg
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Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects have now 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 books per month, 78 per week and 11.13 per day.
99 titles have been REposted to the new filing system, bringing us
almost to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
TOTAL Project Gutenberg e-Texts
* 27,500 ~~ 2008/04/05
* 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
PG-US
* 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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