======== Subject: Project Gutenberg July Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> To: me@prairienet.org Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:18:19 -0500 (CDT) This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for July 1998 Our 28th Internet Fourth of July! Congratulations to a thousand volunteers who have helped us over the years! [Usually delivered the first Wednesday of each month.] [Major crashes this week, let me know if you have NOT! received expected email from me, or if you did not get this through the normal channels you usually get mail] *** We are currently working on our first Etext to be sent in both Chinese characters and in English translation. It is the story of Mulan; for those of you who want to use the movies to extend your children's reading, this is a prime example. . .and to show that not all we see originated in the language we see it in. *** Have We Given Away A Trillion Dollars In Etexts Yet??? This first week of July, 1998, marks the completion of our 27th year of public information service on the Net since we started on the 4th of July, 1971, with the US Declaration of Independence, with a goal to present to the public 10,000 Etext files for free downloading. I am proud to announce that our volunteers have just now reached 1/7 of that goal, and that we hope we can post enough more Etexts this year to reach 1/6 of 10,000. Next year we hope to reach 1/5 of that goal, by giving away Etext #2000 on or before January 1, 2000. So. . .right now you would have to value each Etext at $7, and presume the average Etext will reach 1.687% of the world population to presume we have given away the trillion dollars worth of Etexts that is our goal. When the world population is 10 billion [only just now reaching 6 billion, but I remember when it was 2.5] it will only take reaching 1% of the population with that mythical average Etext, and with 10,000 Etexts it will only require a nominal $1 value per copy to say we had given away a trillion dollars worth. However, since no one else is even PRETENDING to do it . . .we are still likely to be the first to say we had a trillion dollar philanthropy project. Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]#### Aug 1998 Woman and Labour, by Olive Schreiner [Olive's #3][wmlbrxxx.xxx]1440 Aug 1998 Dreams, by Olive Schreiner [Olive Schreiner #2][drmosxxx.xxx]1439 Aug 1998 No Name, by Wilkie Collins [#6 by Wilkie Collins][nnamexxx.xxx]1438 Aug 1998 Juana by Honore de Balzac[#36 by Honore de Balzac][juanaxxx.xxx]1437 Aug 1998 A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Father Jerome Lobo [vygabxxx.xxx]1436 Aug 1998 Miscellaneous Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #47][mspcdxxx.xxx]1435 Aug 1998 Essays, by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #7][esyamxxx.xxx]1434 Aug 1998 The Red Inn, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #35][rdinnxxx.xxx]1433 Aug 1998 Seraphita, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #34][sraphxxx.xxx]1432 Aug 1998 Trooper Peter Halket, by Olive Schreiner [trptrxxx.xxx]1431 Aug 1998 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit #6[bstshxxx.xxx]1430 Aug 1998 The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield [KM #1][gprtyxxx.xxx]1429 Aug 1998 La Grenadiere, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #33][grndrxxx.xxx]1428 Aug 1998 A Drama on the Seashore, by Balzac [de Balzac #32][seshrxxx.xxx]1427 Aug 1998 The Recruit, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #31][recrtxxx.xxx]1426 Aug 1998 El Verdugo, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #30][vrdugxxx.xxx]1425 Aug 1998 Castle Rackrent, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #1][rkrntxxx.xxx]1424 Aug 1998 No Thoroughfare, by Dickens [#47] & Collins [#5] [nothoxxx.xxx]1423 Aug 1998 Going into Society, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#46][gisocxxx.xxx]1422 Aug 1998 Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy by Charles Dickens [CD #45][mlrlgxxx.xxx]1421 Aug 1998 London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes [lndwdxxx.xxx]1420 Aug 1998 Mugby Junction, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #44][mgjncxxx.xxx]1419 Aug 1998 Country Sentiment, by Robert Graves [csentxxx.xxx]1418 Aug 1998 Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #29][ssoilxxx.xxx]1417 Aug 1998 Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, by Charles Dickens [#43][mlldgxxx.xxx]1416 Aug 1998 Doctor Marigold, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #42][drmrgxxx.xxx]1415 Aug 1998 Somebody's Luggage, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#41][smlggxxx.xxx]1414 Aug 1998 Tom Tiddler's Ground, by Charles Dickens [CD #40][ttgndxxx.xxx]1413 Aug 1998 Masterman Ready, by Captain Marryat [Marryat #1][mmrdyxxx.xxx]1412 Aug 1998 Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #28][dmspcxxx.xxx]1411 Aug 1998 The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac [#27][lunacxxx.xxx]1410 Aug 1998 The Soul of the Far East, by Percival Lowell [#1][sofrexxx.xxx]1409 Aug 1998 The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White [tnhosxxx.xxx]1408 Aug 1998 A Message From the Sea by Charles Dickens [CD #39][amftsxxx.xxx]1407 Aug 1998 Perils of Certain English Prisoners by Dickens #38[pocepxxx.xxx]1406 Aug 1998 The Collection of Antiquities, by Balzac [HDB #26][clntqxxx.xxx]1405 and two for September Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]#### Sep 1998 Kingdom of the Blind, by E. Phillips Oppenheim #2[kblndxxx.xxx]1442 Sep 1998 The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner #4[aafrmxxx.xxx]1441 About the Project Gutenberg Newsletter: [Goes out approximately first Wednesday of each month. But different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or surf to promo.net/pg to subscribe directly by yourself.] A note from Down Under. . . . *** > > My bookstore is called Zack's Book-o-rama. Please visit it at > http://elbourne.simplenet.com/zacksbooks > If you have any public domain book ideas for me please post them to the > book forum. This may be a typo, I couldn't check. . .elbourne >> melbourne ??? Sorry for any problems. 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