======== To: Michael Hart <hart@pobox.com> Subject: March Project Gutenberg Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:24:31 -0600 (CST) *This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for March 4, 1998 Passing another milestone: We should be posting Etext #1250 this month, which would be a total of 1/8 of our goal of 10,000 Etexts on the Internet. At that time the following will become true: $1 Trillion Given Away By Project Gutenberg We have now given away $1 trillion worth of Etexts: based on Etexts being nominally valued at $8 each to an average of 100 million users on the 2 billion computers in the world. **To avoid the difference between American and other -illions, where each successive name is multiplied by a million instead of where the Americans multiply by only a thousand, please use the following: ** We have now given away $1,000,000,000,000 in Etexts, based on Etexts being nominally valued at $8 each to an average of 100,000,000 users on the 2,000,000,000 computers in the world. In August we should be able to reduce that nominal value to $7, then next March to $6, and on 1/1/2000 to $5 as a nominal value per book; and when we finally reach #10,000, it will take only a truly nominal value of $1 each for Project Gutenberg to have given away a trillion dollars worth of Etexts, even if we still only reach 100 million for the average number to use each Etext, out of a world population that will be between 6 billion and 7 billion, with 2 billion to 3 billion computers for them to use, perhaps even 4 billion by that time. The current world population is now exactly 5.9 billion, as of today; it should be 6 billion by the time we reach the millennium]. Recently released: William the Conqueror by E.A. Freeman[Saved #1066][wlmcnxxx.xxx]1066 We wanted to make the obvious connection from year 1066 to book 1066 If you would like to reserve any of the dates between 1225 and 2000, just let me know. Example: something on Columbus for #1492, and on his later trips, Magellan, etc., for the next few Etexts. Requests: Madame Bovary Emerson Yeats Tennyson Byron Verne's Off On A Comet George Eliot's Ramola 20 Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams Brecht J.M. Barrie's Little White Bird [First Peter Pan appearance] We still need someone to help us create a "hit counter" for relaying hits to other Etext sources, so they get credited. This is VERY important for some of them to get grants, etc. Those of you interested in doing Spanish Etexts may want to take a look at: http://listserv.ccit.arizona.edu/comedia.html *** Here are the 36 Etexts for February, 1998 Mon Year Title Author #Books by Author [filename.ext]#### Feb 1998 [A Biography of] Sidney Lanier, by Edwin Mims [lanrbxxx.xxx]1224 Feb 1998 Ursula, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #6] [rsulaxxx.xxx]1223 Feb 1998 Cobb's Anatomy, by Irvin S. Cobb [Humorous Spoof] [canatxxx.xxx]1222 Feb 1998 Origin and Nature of Emotions, by George W. Crile [oanoexxx.xxx]1221 Feb 1998 The Atheist's Mass, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#5][athmsxxx.xxx]1220 Feb 1998 Essay on Comedy, Comic Spirit George Meredith[#2][esycmxxx.xxx]1219 Feb 1998 The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, by Frank L. Packard[advjdxxx.xxx]1218 Feb 1998 Penelope's Experiences in Scotland, by Wiggin [#5][pesctxxx.xxx]1217 Feb 1998 Decline of Science in England, by Charles Babbage [dosiexxx.xxx]1216 Feb 1998 The Elixir of Life, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#4][lxrlfxxx.xxx]1215 Feb 1998 The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart[sstrsxxx.xxx]1214 Feb 1998 Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, by Mark Twain [#13][hdlybxxx.xxx]1213 Feb 1998 Love and Friendship, et. al., by Jane Austen [#7] [lvfndxxx.xxx]1212 Feb 1998 Love and Freindship, et. al., by Jane Austen [#7] [lvfndxxx.xxx]1212 Feb 1998 From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick[Palgrave][lporhxxx.xxx]1211 Feb 1998 Kwaidan, by Lafcadio Hearn [Lafcadio Hearn #2] [kwidnxxx.xxx]1210 Feb 1998 History Of The Conquest Of Peru, by Wm H. Prescott[hcpruxxx.xxx]1209 Feb 1998 The Seed of McCoy, by Jack London[Jack London #48][sosetxxx.xxx]1208 Feb 1998 The Inevitable White Man, by Jack London [JL #47][sosetxxx.xxx]1208 Feb 1998 The Terrible Solomons, by Jack London [London #46][sosetxxx.xxx]1208 Feb 1998 The Heathen, by Jack London [Jack London #45][sosetxxx.xxx]1208 Feb 1998 "Yah! Yah! Yah!", by Jack London [Jack London #44][sosetxxx.xxx]1208 Feb 1998 Mauki, by Jack London [Jack London #43][sosetxxx.xxx]1208 Feb 1998 The Whale Tooth, by Jack London [Jack London #42][sosetxxx.xxx]1208 Feb 1998 The House of Mapuhi, by Jack London [London #41][sosetxxx.xxx]1208 Feb 1998 South Sea Tales, by Jack London [London #41-48][sosetxxx.xxx]1208 Feb 1998 Nada the Lily, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #2] [ndllyxxx.xxx]1207 Feb 1998 The Flying U Ranch, by B. M. Bower [Bower #5] [flurnxxx.xxx]1206 Feb 1998 The Colour of Life, by Alice Meynell [Meynell #2] [clrlfxxx.xxx]1205 Feb 1998 Cabin Fever, by B. M. Bower [B. M. Bower #4] [cabfvxxx.xxx]1204 Feb 1998 Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope [Anthony Hope #4] [dlydlxxx.xxx]1203 Feb 1998 Tales of Unrest, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #20] [tnrstxxx.xxx]1202 Feb 1998 Essay on the Trial By Jury, by Lysander Spooner[1][tbjryxxx.xxx]1201 Feb 1998 Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francis Rabelais [ggpntxxx.xxx]1200 Feb 1998 An Anthology of Australian Verse, Bertram Stevens [ozvrxxxx.xxx]1199 Feb 1998 Robbery Under Arms, by Rolf Boldrewood[T.A.Browne][robryxxx.xxx]1198 Feb 1998 Taras Bulba, et. al, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [tarasxxx.xxx]1197 Feb 1998 St. John's Eve, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#7][tarasxxx.xxx]1197 Feb 1998 The Cloak, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#6][tarasxxx.xxx]1197 Feb 1998 How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, by Nikolai Gogol[#5][tarasxxx.xxx]1197 Feb 1998 The Mysterious Portrait, by Nikolai Gogol [#4][tarasxxx.xxx]1197 Feb 1998 The Calash, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#3][tarasxxx.xxx]1197 Feb 1998 Taras Bulba, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#2][tarasxxx.xxx]1197 Feb 1998 The Purse, by Honore' de Balzac [Balzac #3] [pursexxx.xxx]1196 Feb 1998 Glasses, by Henry James [Henry James #19][glsesxxx.xxx]1195 Feb 1998 Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by de Rougemont [advlrxxx.xxx]1194 Feb 1998 The Coxon Fund, by Henry James [Henry James #18][coxonxxx.xxx]1193 Feb 1998 The Old Bachelor, by William Congreve [Congreve#2][oldbaxxx.xxx]1192 Feb 1998 The Double-Dealer, by William Congreve[Congreve#1][dbdlrxxx.xxx]1191 Feb 1998 The Jolly Corner, by Henry James [Henry James #17][jllycxxx.xxx]1190 Feb 1998 The Message, by Honore' de Balzac [Balzac #2] [msagexxx.xxx]1189 These four, which WERE labeled for February, are now labeled for January, for 36 Etexts per month for 1998 and 1999 so we can try to reach #2000 1/1/2000. Jan 1998 Lair of the White Worm, by Bram Stoker [Stoker #2][lrwhwxxx.xxx]1188 Jan 1998 War of the Classes, by Jack London[Jack London#40][wrclsxxx.xxx]1187 Jan 1998 Poems by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #1] [pomamxxx.xxx]1186 Jan 1998 Conflict Between Religion & Science by John Draper[hcbrsxxx.xxx]1185 Mar 1998 Faraday As A Discoverer, by John Tyndall [fdaydxxx.xxx]1225 Also in the works, The Three Musketeers, and the two sequels, and Anthem, by Ayn Rand. Will be posted this week. *** GATES SAYS GOVERNMENT ACTIONS HAMPERS MICROSOFT'S ABILITY TO INNOVATE Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates says that if the Justice Department prevents the company from adding new features to its Windows software, Microsoft will lose its ability to remain a technology industry leader. Gates argues: "It's hard to say that you're going to compromise on your ability to innovate in Windows. If I can't put Internet support in Windows, then Windows will fail. 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