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From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
To: "Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter" <gweekly@listserv.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:51:09 -0400 (EDT)
My apologies if you are getting a second copy, apparently the
first copy didn't make it to many. . .so I am sending again. . . .
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**Project Gutenberg's Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, August 8, 2001**
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somewhat limited. . .never let anyone forget that somehow, even
through all the crashes, we have never actually missed a date to
do a Newsletter, except on a few rare occasions when Wednesday
fell on New Year's Day and the like. . .someday we will miss,
but not yet. . .here are 20 more books for your collection.
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even though I *intended* that we would this past month. . .to get us to
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I will get more detailed reports shortly, but it appears that we may
have actually produced about 1,000 new Etexts from July 4, 2000 to
July 4, 2001. . .please note this actually contained the work from
13 calendar months. . .AND. . .we have cut down the number of those
Etexts listed as *reserved*. . .so the production has been greater
than it actually appears. . . .
In addition, I would like to take a moment I have been considering
for several weeks now to give public thanks to our two David's,
David Widger and David Price who have pretty much single handedly
[they did all but two of this week's contributions, as I recall]
saved me from having to write up the shortest Newsletter of recent
memory, especially given all the other hassles I've had this week.
My HUGE Thanks!!!!!!!
Michael
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Here is a list of the 20 Etexts posted since last Wednesday.
For "instant" access to our new Etexts you can surf to:
http://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03
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ftp://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03
You will need the first five letters of the filenames listed below.
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We have REposted significantly improved 11th editions of the following:
Nov 2002 Beethoven: The Man And The Artist/Kerst & Krehbiel[lvbmaxxx.xxx]3528
[Full Title: Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words]
[Authors' Full Names:]
[Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel]
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And here are the 20 new releases for this week.
20 Etext per week would yield 1040 per year, or
about 86 per 30 day month.
Mar 2003 The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series [CM#63][cm63bxxx.xxx]3900
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud [CM#62][cm62bxxx.xxx]3899
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v7 [CM#61][cm61bxxx.xxx]3898
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v6 [CM#60][cm60bxxx.xxx]3897
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v5 [CM#59][cm59bxxx.xxx]3896
95
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v4 [CM#58][cm58bxxx.xxx]3895
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v3 [CM#57][cm57bxxx.xxx]3894
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v2 [CM#56][cm56bxxx.xxx]3893
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v1 [CM#55][cm55bxxx.xxx]3892
25
Feb 2003 Famous Men of the Middle Ages, by Harren & Poland [fmtmaxxx.xxx]3725
[Authors' Full Names: John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland]
[Not sure this one actually on line yet as of this writing, as this is the
FIRST new Etext not to be posted by Greg Newby or myself since Judy Boss
did a month of 19 for me years ago, and said: "Never again!". . . .]
Feb 2003 The House Of Heine Brothers by Anthony Trollope 28[hheinxxx.xxx]3724
Feb 2003 A Ride Across Palestine, by Anthony Trollope [#27][rdpalxxx.xxx]3723
Feb 2003 A Daughter Of The Land, by Gene Stratton-Porter #8[adotlxxx.xxx]3722
Feb 2003 Pioneers Of France In The New World, by Parkman #2[pofnwxxx.xxx]3721
[Full Name: Francis Parkman, Jr., though the Jr. is often left off.]
20
Feb 2003 Returning Home, by Anthony Trollope [Trollope #26][rtnhmxxx.xxx]3720
Feb 2003 The Mistletoe Bough, by Anthony Trollope [AT #25][mstlbxxx.xxx]3719
Feb 2003 George Walker At Suez, by Anthony Trollope[AT #24][grgwkxxx.xxx]3718
Feb 2003 The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, by Trollope [prsndxxx.xxx]3717
Feb 2003 Mrs. General Talboys, by Anthony Trollope [AT #22][talbyxxx.xxx]3716
15
Feb 2003 The Parenticide Club, by Ambrose Bierce[Bierce #6][prntcxxx.xxx]3715
Contains:
My Favorite Murder
Oil of Dog
An Imperfect Conflagration
The Hypnotist
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Our Total For The Year Is About 690 For 220 days,
this is 3.13 per day or 94 Per 30 day month. . . .
This Would Yield About 1145 For The Year
Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
08/08/01 20 22
08/01/01 22 22
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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***News Headlines From Newsscan and Edupage***
E-BOOKS SAID TO BE "UTTERLY UNNEEDED"
According to publishing consultant Jim Lichtenberg, the e-book business is
floundering: "There's no standardization in technology. It's all a big
mess. This is like having a car in 1905. It breaks down constantly, which
means you have to travel with your own mechanic--and since there are no
roads, there's nowhere to go anyway." Prize-winning novelist Kurt Vonnegut
agrees: "The e-book is a ridiculous idea. The printed book is so
satisfactory, so responsive to our fingertips. So much of this new stuff is
utterly unneeded." But a spokesman for Random House [see Honorary
Subscriber section below] thinks that reports of the demise of the e-book
is greatly exaggerated, and that its potential is yet to be realized.(Los
Angeles Times 6 Aug 2001)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-080601ebooks.story
[Note there is no mention of compensation for performers]
COURT BACKS ONLINE RADIO RULING
The broadcasting industry suffered a setback Wednesday when a U.S. district
judge threw out a challenge to the U.S. Copyright Office, which ruled last
year that radio stations must pay additional royalties to stream music over
the Internet. The National Association of Broadcasters responded that the
ruling would upset a long-standing, mutually beneficial relationship
between the broadcasting and recording industries. "Broadcasters currently
pay in excess of $300 million annually in music licensing fees to
compensate songwriters and music publishers. Any additional fee to
compensate record companies would be unfair and unreasonable," said NAB
president and CEO Edward O. Fritts. The ruling was hailed as a victory by
the Recording Industry Association of America. "Any licensing fees that
these companies would be paying would pale in comparison... to the cost to
stream their signal over the Internet," said RIAA senior VP Steven M.
Marks. (AP 2 Aug 2001)
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010802/22/online-radio
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CAMPUS CLICKS
The Internet's role in the life of college students--from
academic research to socializing--is growing, according to a
survey conducted by Greenfield Online. The study found that 78
percent of college students have been accessing the Web for at
least three years, and 90 percent are online three hours a day.
(Gannett News Service, 1 August 2001)
PC MAKERS ARE READY FOR SCHOOL
PC makers are readying for the back-to-school season early this
year, eager to cash in on August and September sales, which
traditionally constitute up to 20 percent of a year's total.
Along with marketing programs are special deals struck with
school districts, as between Hillsborough County Public School
District in Florida and Compaq. Compaq is allowing Hillsborough
to buy computers in bulk for resale to parents, including
refurbished and overstocked systems, in return for a percentage
of the profits and a discount off the retail price. Other
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colleges and universities requiring incoming students to have PCs
or laptop computers. Circuit City's Jim Babb said between 10
and 15 percent of all higher education campuses now require their
students to have computers.
(Investor's Business Daily, 31 July 2001)
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