/The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, May 21, 2008/
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55 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring!
This leaves 4 7/12 years, 18 1/3 seasons, or 55 months.
Not to worry. I will still make predictions further on.
Chinese Moves Up!
Please note the number of our original Project Gutenberg
eBooks in Chinese has moved over 300 books, and thus has
now taken over the 5th place of books in languages other
than English. List of Top 10 or so is below.
Spanish and Russian
We need to make a concerted effort to bring more eBooks,
of all kinds, to our readers of Spanish and Russian.
Please contact hart at pglaf.org
Notes About a Project Dedicated to Benjamin Franklin
"Ben & Verse"
("Is Ben Franklin Cursed? His Prose Has Been Versed")
is made of quotes?and rewrites of Ben Franklin's prose
aphorisms in up-to-date verse. Arranged by?subject,
"Ben & Verse" can introduce?children and playful adults
to experiences stored in "Poor Richard's Almanac."
?
>From time to time, the author, John D. McCall adds
quotations and verses. For the latest edition, click
www.benandverse.com/poorben/bentogoload.htm
For another route to the latest edition, please go to
www.benandverse.com
Then, first click Ben Franklin's kite
to reach the monthly issue, and then click
"Ben to Go!"
?
Happy Reading From the Inventor of Bifocals, etc!
HEADLINE NEWS
As of today: May 21, 2008: "Original Project Gutenberg
eBook" site totals have reached 28,000, details below.
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. Not to mention the sites:
http://www.gutenberg.cc with 75,000+ eBooks, and Project
Runeberg with eBooks in the Scandinavian languages.
Please note: the figures presented here are usually the
more conservative figures people have presented, but the
date of our eBook #25,000 was said to have been slightly
earlier than reported. Personally, I would prefer to be
a little cautious about reporting the numbers of eBooks,
but if anyone would like to help us with the accounting,
that would be GRRRREAT!!!
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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Requesting A Third Time!
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.
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
Here is the output for the current week:
Subject: Yet Another Progress Report
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2008-05-14 | 9
Thu 2008-05-15 | 10
Fri 2008-05-16 | 14
Sat 2008-05-17 | 12
Sun 2008-05-18 | 9
Mon 2008-05-19 | 13
Tue 2008-05-20 | 17
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!
Current Totals
25,435 Project Gutenberg Under US Copyright Law
1,624 Project Gutenberg Of Australia +0 [on break]
497 Project Gutenberg of Europe +3
119 Project Gutenberg of Canada +9 [< May 12]
387 Project Gutenberg PrePrints +0
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28,062 Grand Total
[About as many as the average public library]
eustats
preprints
PG Europe will be posting their eBook #500 very soon!
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 from
http://www.gutenberg.org
21724 English en
1183 French fr
533 German de
438 Finnish fi
336 Dutch nl
310 Chinese zh
228 Portuguese pt
183 Spanish es
147 Italian it
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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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