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Sep 1998 History of England, James II Vol. 1, Macaulay[#2][1hoejxxx.xxx]1468 [Full Title: The History of England from the Accession of James II] [Author's Name: Thomas Babington Macaulay] Sep 1998 Some Christmas Stories, by Charles Dickens[CD #50][cdscsxxx.xxx]1467 Sep 1998 Creatures That Once Were Men, by Maxim Gorky [#1a][crmenxxa.xxx]1466 Sep 1998 Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens [#49][wrkgmxxx.xxx]1465 Sep 1998 The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, by Gissing [ppohrxxx.xxx]1463 Sep 1998 Some Roundabout Papers, by Thackeray[Thackeray #3][rndbtxxx.xxx]1462 Sep 1998 A Legend of Montrose, by Walter Scott [W Scott #5][mntrsxxx.xxx]1461 Sep 1998 The Black Dwarf, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #4][bdwrfxxx.xxx]1460 Sep 1998 Prufrock and Other Observations, by T. S. Eliot #2[prfrkxxx.xxx]1459 Sep 1998 Dream Life and Real Life, by Olive Schreiner [#5][dlarlxxx.xxx]1458 Sep 1998 Mistress Wilding, by Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini #1][wldngxxx.xxx]1457 Sep 1998 An Episode Under the Terror, by Balzac[Balzac #41][aeuttxxx.xxx]1456 Sep 1998 The Hated Son, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #40][htdsnxxx.xxx]1455 Sep 1998 Maitre Cornelius, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #39][crnlsxxx.xxx]1454 Sep 1998 The Alkahest, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #38][lkhstxxx.xxx]1453 Sep 1998 Native Life in South Africa, by Sol Plaatje [nlisaxxx.xxx]1452 Sep 1998 The Art of Lawn Tennis, by William T. Tilden, 2D [tenisxxx.xxx]1451 Sep 1998 Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter[Eleanor Porter #4][plynaxxx.xxx]1450 Sep 1998 The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London[London #49][vlymnxxx.xxx]1449 Sep 1998 Heidi, by Johanna Spyri [The Popular Kid's Story][heidixxx.xxx]1448 Sep 1998 The Illustrious Prince, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 3[iprncxxx.xxx]1447 Today Is The 219th Day of 2002 146 Days/20 Weeks Left Until 2003 Ending our 32st Week Of The Year We did 1240 eBooks in 2001 We did 1458 So Far in 2002 The 18th Week Of Our SECOND 5,000 eBooks 17 Months From Today, Perhaps Our 10,000th eBook! 1,989 New eBooks In The Last Year 3,761 eBooks This Week Last Year 5,750 Tree-Friendly Titles Now Online 202 Monthly Average This Year 1458 New This Year 534 New At This Time Last Year In this issue of the Project Gutenberg Weekly newsletter: - Intro (above) - Requests For Assistance - Making Donations - Access To The Collection - Information About Mirror Sites - Weekly eBook update: - Headline News from Newsscan and Edupage - Information about mailing lists *** Requests For Assistance: We are seeking a physical copy of the book RUR in Czeck by Karel Capek, published in 1920-1922. These copies are hard to find, but available at the U. Nebraska Lincoln, Texas A&M, U. 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Mozart [#1][wmk80xxx.xxx]4750 Jan 2004 String Quartet No. 2, Ludwig van Beethoven[LVB #4][lv182xxx.xxx]4950 Dec 2003 Opus 18 No. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven [LVB #3][lv181xxx.xxx]4749 [Sample filename: lv18110x.zip] [all end in x.zip] [x for XML] Feb 2004 String Quarted in C Major, Op. 71 no. 1, Haydn[#2][fh741xxx.xxx]5188 Should be: Feb 2004 String Quartet in C Major, Op. 71 no. 1, Haydn[#2][fh741xxx.xxx]5188 ***] 46 NEW U.S. POSTS [*** May 2004 Janice Meredith, by Paul Leicester Ford [jmerexxx.xxx]5719 May 2004 The Great Salt Trail, by Colonel Henry Inman [?gsltxxx.xxx]5718 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gslt10.txt and 7gslt10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8gslt10.txt and 8gslt10.zip] May 2004 Bergson and His Philosophy, by J. Gunn [Gunn#2][bergsxxx.xxx]5717 [Author's Full Name: J. 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The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks of production, each production-week starting/ending Wednesday noon, starting with the first Wednesday in January. January 2nd was was the first Wednesday of 2002, and thus ended the production With 5,750 eTexts online as of August 14th, 2002 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.75 from each book, for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One Trillion Dollars] in books. 100,000,000 readers is only about 1.6 percent of the world's population! This "cost" is down from $2.73 when we had 3731 Etexts A Year Ago Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing $.98 less a year later??? Or. . .would this say it better? Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing 33% less a year later??? At 5750 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged At 1458 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged ***Headline News*** [My Comments In Brackets] Headlines From Newsscan [They Literally Want To Make It Illegal To Skip Commercials Instantly] CONSUMER SUIT SIDETRACKED IN HOLLYWOOD-VS.-REPLAYTV A federal judge has brushed to the side legal efforts by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of five owners of ReplayTV systems who claim they are threatened by a lawsuit against SonicBlue, the Santa Clara company that makes that device. The ReplayTV 4000 system is an advanced recording device that allows watchers to make digital copies of TV shows and to skip commercials, and SonicBlue is being sued by 28 movie studios and TV networks on the grounds that the device encourages piracy and its widespread adoption would harm the industry. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the consumers it represents argue that the decision would affect them and even make them indictable for piracy, and that they should therefore be allowed to participate in the lawsuit; however, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper says that "many, if not all" of their issues can be resolved by the trial without their direct input. (San Jose Mercury Times 12 Aug 2002) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3851281.htm JUNK FAXES The Federal Communications Commission wants to levy a $5.4 million fine on Fax.com, a company that uses a fax-number database to distribute faxed ads for its customers (restaurants, auto repair shops, and so forth). The FCC said that Fax.com has "engaged in a pattern of deception to conceal its involvement in sending the prohibited faxes," which has been banned since the passage of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. Fax.com's attorney, Mary Ann Wymore, regards the ban as "a clear infringement on commercial speech rights," and predicts it ultimately will be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. (Wall Street Journal 8 Aug 2002) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1028749725144358440.djm,00.html (sub req'd) MCNEALY PREDICTS 30% ANNUAL GROWTH IN LINUX USERS Addressing participants at the Linux World Conference and Expo, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy predicted Tuesday that the number of Linux users will grow by 30% a year for the next several years, and urged companies to embrace the open-source software movement. Documenting his own company's commitment, McNealy noted that Sun has at least 400 full-time employees dedicated to Linux and pledged to abide by the ethical standards of the Linux community, which is made up of thousands of grassroots enthusiasts worldwide who collaborate on software projects. "We're going to share in the lifestyle and be a capitalist," said McNealy. "We'll share our thoughts but we don't think it's broken so we're not going to try to fix it," he said, referring to fears that companies could take the open source code and factionalize it by creating competing proprietary versions. (AP 13 Aug 2002) http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020813/D7LCONLO1.html BLAME THE ECONOMY, NOT PIRACY, FOR WEAK CD SALES A Forrester Research report released Tuesday says that the true threat to record labels' profits is the sagging economy, and that downloadable music could actually prove to be the industry's salvation rather than its scourge. According to the report's findings, people who download music from the Internet more than nine times a month -- a relatively small percentage of the overall market -- say they'll decrease their album purchases by 2%. At the same time, 39% of downloading enthusiasts said they bought more CDs, because they found new music that they wanted to purchase through their file-swapping activities. Meanwhile, it turns out that consumers who rarely or never download music account for more than two-thirds of CD sales in the U.S. With music sales slumping nearly 10% this year so far, report author Josh Bernoff says the true culprits are limited radio playlists, high-priced CDs and a general economic recession. The Forrester report suggests that record labels should offer more flexible pricing and online access to their entire music back-catalogues in order to make online music-buying more consumer-friendly. The predicted payoff (which some view as excessively optimistic) could amount to a boost of $937 million in album downloads, $805 million in singles downloads and $313 million in subscription fees by 2007. (Los Angeles Times 14 Aug 2002) http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-music14aug14.story?coll=la%2Dheadlin es%2Dtechnology MOBILE PHONE REPLACES PHOTO ALBUM FOR PICTURE STORAGE Proud parents in Japan are just as likely to whip out their mobile phones to show you pictures of their children as fumble through their wallets for school photos. The latest generation of cell phones feature tiny cameras and full-color screens, in addition to digital zoom lenses, higher-resolution displays and enough memory to store hundreds of photos, and analysts predict that these new features will prove irresistible to American and European consumers as the 3G handsets hit the global market. "It's often said that Japanese love cameras, but Europeans and Americans in particular see family photos as something special, even putting them up in their cubicles at work," says Gartner analyst Nahoko Mitsuyama. "Theirs is a culture that puts a high value on photos, and if that can be tapped into, I think there'll be demand for these products outside Japan as well." (Reuters 13 Aug 2002) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=581&ncid=581&e=5&u=/nm/20020813 /tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc_1 NEW ELECTRON MICROSOCOPE IBM and the Nion Corporation have created an electron microscope optics system that sets the direction for a new generation of microscopes capable of resolving subatomic images using an electron beam one three-billionth of an inch in diameter. One likely application of the new microscopes will be the analysis of advanced semiconductor transistors, in which the tolerances are so fine that a transistor will fail if a single atom falls out of place. (New York Times 7 Aug 2002) http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/technology/08BLUE.html When it took over the Internet services of bankrupt Excite@Home, AT&T didn't raise the fees of Excite customers, it just reduced their download speeds (by as much as 80%). It told them that their "lightning-fast" connection to the Internet had been "optimized for all users through a maximum network setting of 1.5 Mbps downstream." Responding to charges that his company had essentially played a trick on consumers, AT&T's vice advertising and other economics that didn't pan out the way people had hoped." (USA Today 8 Aug 2002) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2002-08-08-att-broadband_x.htm Various academic institutions now use antiplagiarism software to catch student cheaters -- but some critics say such software tramples on student Turnitin.com expands its database by keeping copies of scanned student papers without getting the permission from the student; the papers can then be used for comparison with new submissions as they are received in the future. Is this a permissible practice? Sure, says Turnitin -- this use of the papers doesn't threaten any potential commercial value of the papers and is well within "Fair Use" rules. [Antiplagiarism aficionados will enjoy Bernard Malamud's 1961 novel "A New Life," in which faculty members work frantically but unsuccessfully to expose a student.] (IEEE Computer Aug 2002) http://www.computer.org/computer/ *** Headlines From Edupage: SPAM ON THE RISE Analysts offer varying explanations, but e-mail spam is definitely on the increase. According to Brightmail Inc., which monitors junk e-mail, June of 2001 saw 879,000 spam attacks; June of this year saw 4.8 million. The company also reports that the percentage all e-mail that is spam has risen from 7 percent a year ago to between 12 and 15 percent today. Some speculate that the weak economy encourages spam as a marketing vehicle because it is relatively inexpensive. Others cite the ongoing battle between those who want to get unsolicited e-mails delivered to users and those who want to filter it out. All acknowledge that the increase of spam means it is not simply a nuisance but a daily problem. Much time is wasted dealing with spam, and many legitimate messages, for example, are deleted when users suspect them of being spam. NewsFactor Network, 8 August 2002 http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18939.html RIAA TO APPEAL WEB RADIO ROYALTY The decision by Librarian of Congress James Billington to charge Web radio stations .07 cents per song/per listener has apparently pleased no one. Immediately after the ruling, small Webcasters, including many college-owned radio stations and other nonprofit stations, said the rate was too high and would put them out of business. Now the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has said it will appeal the rate, saying it is too low and does not adequately compensate artists or record labels. The RIAA charges that Billington's decision rested on a misinterpretation of testimony from Yahoo and on ignoring certain licensing deals. If these factors had been considered appropriately, said the RIAA, the rate would have been "significantly higher." Washington Post, 7 August 2002 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56215-2002Aug7.html [For Those Who Believe The Internet Was Not Founded By The Military, just look up references to the time when it was called DARPANet.] GOVERNMENT WANTS TO REINVENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES A new project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has as its goal the "total reinvention of technologies for storing and accessing information." The Total Information Awareness (TIA) system, which will be funded by grants from DARPA, is an attempt by the federal government to construct a highly data-intensive system that can spot clues to terrorist plans long before they come to fruition. Grant applicants are warned that no money will be invested in "research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to existing technology"; officials are committed to a fundamental redesign of technology. TIA plans call for unprecedented amounts of data, measured in petabytes, to be stored and accessed. Civil liberties groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation find the prospect of such a system very worrisome without strict rules to prevent it from becoming a powerful secret spy machine. Wired News, 7 August 2002 http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,54342,00.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** About the Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter: [Goes out approximately first Wednesday of each month. 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