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Jan 2001 Trent's Trust & Other Stories, by Bret Harte [#16][ttaosxxx.xxx]2459
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Jan 2001 Stories by English Authors in Italy, Scribners, Ed[sbeaixxx.xxx]2457
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Dec 2000 The Common Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [#3][cmnlwxxx.xxx]2449
Dec 2000 The Colored Cadet at West Point, by Henry Flipper [ccawpxxx.xxx]2448
Dec 2000 Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey [mnvctxxx.xxx]2447
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Dec 2000 Letters on England, by Voltaire [Voltaire #1][ltengxxx.xxx]2445
Dec 2000 Oxford [City & University], by Andrew Lang[AL #25][oxfrdxxx.xxx]2444
Dec 2000 The Story of the Mormons by William Alexander Linn[tsotmxxx.xxx]2443
Dec 2000 History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson[Pres][hioajxxx.xxx]2442
Dec 2000 The Burgess Animal Book for Children, by Burgess 2[babfcxxx.xxx]2441
Dec 2000 The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Bates[notraxxx.xxx]2440
Dec 2000 History of England, James II Vol. 2, Macaulay[#9][2hoejxxx.xxx]2439
Dec 2000 Daphne, An Autumn Pastoral, by Margaret Sherwood [daphnxxx.xxx]2438
Dec 2000 They and I, by Jerome K. Jerome[Jerome Jerome #23][theyixxx.xxx]2437
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Dec 2000 Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain [MT#16][shkddxxx.xxx]2431
Dec 2000 Romantic Ballads, by George Borrow [Borrow#7][rmbddxxx.xxx]2430
Dec 2000 Lost Face, by Jack London [London 90-96][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
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Feb 2005 The Caxtons, by E. B. Lytton, Part 10 [BL#24][b024wxxx.xxx]7595
Feb 2005 The Caxtons, by E. B. Lytton, Part 9 [BL#23][b023wxxx.xxx]7594
Feb 2005 The Caxtons, by E. B. Lytton, Part 8 [BL#22][b022wxxx.xxx]7593
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Feb 2005 The Caxtons, by E. B. Lytton, Part 6 [BL#20][b020wxxx.xxx]7591
Feb 2005 The Caxtons, by E. B. Lytton, Part 5 [BL#19][b019wxxx.xxx]7590
Feb 2005 The Caxtons, by E. B. Lytton, Part 4 [BL#18][b018wxxx.xxx]7589
Feb 2005 The Caxtons, by E. B. Lytton, Part 3 [BL#17][b017wxxx.xxx]7588
Feb 2005 The Caxtons, by E. B. Lytton, Part 2 [BL#16][b016wxxx.xxx]7587
Feb 2005 The Caxtons, by E. B. Lytton, Part 1 [BL#15][b015wxxx.xxx]7586
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Oct 2004 Poems of Purpose, Ella Wheeler Wilcox [Wilcox#10][ppurxxxx.xxx]6618
[XHTML in ppur10h.htm/.zip, text in ppur10.txt/.zip]
Oct 2004 Poems of Sentiment, Ella Wheeler Wilcox [Wilcox#9][psenxxxx.xxx]6617
[XHTML in psen10h.htm/.zip, text in psen10.txt/.zip]
Oct 2004 December Love, by Robert Hichens [Hichens#6][dcmbrxxx.xxx]6616
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends, Complete, by Skinner,v10 [CS10][cs10wxxx.xxx]6615
[Title: Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land][Author: Charles M. Skinner]
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends: Treasure, by Skinner, v9 [CS09][cs09wxxx.xxx]6614
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends: Pacific, by Skinner, v8 [CS08][cs08wxxx.xxx]6613
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends: Rockies, by Skinner, v7 [CS07][cs07wxxx.xxx]6612
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends: Great Lakes, Skinner, v6 [CS06][cs06wxxx.xxx]6611
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends: The South, Skinner, v5 [CS05][cs05wxxx.xxx]6610
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends: Puritans, by Skinner, v4 [CS04][cs04wxxx.xxx]6609
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends: Delaware, by Skinner, v3 [CS03][cs03wxxx.xxx]6608
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends: Manhattoes, Skinner, v2 [CS02][cs02wxxx.xxx]6607
Oct 2004 Myths And Legends: Hudson, by Skinner, v1 [CS01][cs01wxxx.xxx]6606
Oct 2004 Unconscious Memory, by Samuel Butler [Butler#15][umemxxxx.xxx]6605
[XHTML in umem10h.htm/.zip, text in umem10.txt/.zip]
Oct 2004 Camp of Big Bear, by Gowanlock & Delaney [cbgbrxxx.xxx]6604
[Full title: Two months in the camp of Big Bear]
[Full author: Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney]
Oct 2004 Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed., by S. A. Reilly [rlglhxxx.xxx]6603C
[Subtitle: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776]
[See also #1694]
Oct 2004 The Mysteries of Paris V2, by Eugene Sue [Sue#14][?mpr2xxx.xxx]6602
Oct 2004 Verses and Rhymes by the way, by Nora Pembroke [vrhbwxxx.xxx]6601
(This may be a pseudonym for Margaret Dixon McDougall?)
Sep 2004 The Moccasin Maker, by E. Pauline Johnson [EPJ#4][mcssmxxx.xxx]6600
Sep 2004 Norah's Tour of Ireland, Margaret Dixon McDougall [nrhrlxxx.xxx]6599
[Full title: The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland]
Sep 2004 American Woman's Home, by C.Beecher & H.B.Stowe#3 [mrwmhxxx.xxx]6598
[Full authors: Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe]
Sep 2004 Perpetual Light, by William Rose Benet [prpltxxx.xxx]6597
Sep 2004 Queen Charlotte Islands, by Newton H. Chittenden [qnchlxxx.xxx]6596
[Full title: Official report of the exploration of the Queen Charlotte
Islands]
Sep 2004 Advice to a Mother, by Pye Henry Chavasse [dvmthxxx.xxx]6595
[Full title: Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children]
Sep 2004 Schwatka's Search, by William H. Gilder [schwtxxx.xxx]6594
Sep 2004 The History of Tom Jones, a foundling, H. Fielding[?tomjxxx.xxx]6593
[Author's Full Name: Henry Fielding]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tomj10.txt and 7tomj10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8tomj10.txt and 8tomj10.zip]
Sep 2004 Si'Wren of the Patriarchs, by Roland Cheney [siwrexxx.xxx]6592C
Sep 2004 Highland Ballad, by Christopher Leadem [highlxxx.xxx]6591C
[Plain text in highl10.txt/.zip, HTML in highl10h.htm/.zip]
(Note: the .zips include a JPEG of the book cover)
Sep 2004 Quotations From Gilbert Parker, by Widger [DW#21][dwqgpxxx.xxx]6590
[Title: Quotations from the PG Collected Works of Gilbert Parker]
[Author: David Widger]
Sep 2004 History of Modern Europe 1792-1878, by C. A. Fyffe[?hsmdxxx.xxx]6589
Sep 2004 Types of Children's Literature, Various [?tchlxxx.xxx]6588
[Edited by Walter Barnes]
Sep 2004 King Arthur's Socks, by Floyd Dell [kgrtsxxx.xxx]6587
[Full title: King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays]
Sep 2004 The Cruise of the Kawa, by Walter E. Traprock [crskwxxx.xxx]6586
Sep 2004 Works, V2, by Lucian of Samosata [#2][lcns2xxx.xxx]6585
Sep 2004 Princess Polly's Gay Winter, by Amy Brooks [AB#2][ppgwnxxx.xxx]6584
Sep 2004 Serious Hours of a Young Lady, Charles Sainte-Foi [srhrlxxx.xxx]6583
Sep 2004 In the Court of King Arthur, by Samuel Lowe [crtrtxxx.xxx]6582
Sep 2004 Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians, J.B. Mackensie[sxntnxxx.xxx]6581
[Full author: James Bovell Mackenzie]
Sep 2004 Charter, by Hudson's Bay Company [chhdsxxx.xxx]6580
[Full title: Charter and supplemental charter of the Hudson's Bay Company]
Sep 2004 Men, Women, and God, by A. Herbert Gray [mnwmgxxx.xxx]6579
Sep 2004 The Man on the Box, by Harold MacGrath[MacGrath#4][mnntbxxx.xxx]6578
Sep 2004 Junior Classics, V6, Edited by William Patten [#4][jrcl6xxx.xxx]6577
Contents
The Race for the Silver Skates, by Mary Mapes Dodge
Nelly's Hospital, by Louisa M. Alcott
A Fox and a Raven, by Rebecca H. Davis
The Private Theatricals, by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
A Case of Coincidence, by Rose Terry Cooke
The Flight of the Dolls, by Lucretia P. Hale
Solomon John Goes for Apples, by Lucretia P. Hale
Wild Robin, by Sophie May
Deacon Thomas Wales' Will, by Mary E. W. Freeman
Dill, by Mary E. W. Freeman
Brownie and the Cook, by Mrs. Dinah M. Craik
Brownie and the Cherry Tree, by Mrs. Dinah M. Craik
The Ouphe of the Wood, by Jean Ingelow
The Prince's Dream, by Jean Ingelow
A Lost Wand, by Jean Ingelow
Snap-Dragons--A Tale of Christmas Eve, by Juliana H. Ewing
Uncle Jack's Story, by Mrs. E. M. Field
Bryda's Dreadful Scrape, by Mrs. E. M. Field
The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner, by Charles Dickens
Embellishment, by Jacob Abbott
The Great Stone Face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin
The Two Gifts, by Lillian M. Gask
The Bar of Gold, by Lillian M. Gask
Uncle David's Nonsensical Story, by Catherine Sinclair
The Grand Feast, by Catherine Sinclair
The Story of Fairyfoot, by Frances Browne
Alice In Wonderland
Down the Rabbit-Hole, by Lewis Carroll
The Pool of Tears, by Lewis Carroll
A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, by Lewis Carroll
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, by Lewis Carroll
Advice from a Caterpillar, by Lewis Carroll
Pig and Pepper, by Lewis Carroll
A Mad Tea-Party, by Lewis Carroll
The Queen's Croquet Ground, by Lewis Carroll
The Mock Turtle's Story, by Lewis Carroll
The Lobster-Quadrille, by Lewis Carroll
Who Stole the Tarts?, by Lewis Carroll
Alice's Evidence, by Lewis Carroll
Sep 2004 Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook, Laura Lee Hope[#15][btmbrxxx.xxx]6576
Sep 2004 The Purple Parasol, by George Barr McCutcheon[#18][prpslxxx.xxx]6575
Sep 2004 Watchers of the Sky, by Alfred Noyes [wtcskxxx.xxx]6574
Sep 2004 The Boy Ranchers on the Trail, by Willard F. Baker[brnchxxx.xxx]6573
Sep 2004 Haste and Waste, by Oliver Optic [Optic#2][hstwsxxx.xxx]6572
Sep 2004 The Queen Pedauque, by Anatole France [France#10][?qpdqxxx.xxx]6571
Sep 2004 Lectures and Essays, by Goldwin Smith [lctgsxxx.xxx]6570
Sep 2004 Bessie Bradford's Prize, by Joanna H. Mathews [bsbpzxxx.xxx]6569
Sep 2004 Sociology and Modern Social Problems, C.A. Ellwood[sclgmxxx.xxx]6568
[Full author: Charles A. Ellwood]
Sep 2004 The Adventure of Living, by John St. Loe Strachey [dvnlvxxx.xxx]6567
Sep 2004 Thaddeus of Warsaw, by Jane Porter [Porter#2][thddsxxx.xxx]6566
Sep 2004 Chaucer's Official Life, by James Root Hulbert [chcflxxx.xxx]6565
Sep 2004 The Love-Tiff, by Moliere [#12][?lvtfxxx.xxx]6564
Sep 2004 The Blunderer, by Moliere [#11][?blndxxx.xxx]6563
Sep 2004 The Pretentious Young Ladies, by Moliere [#10][?prtlxxx.xxx]6562
Sep 2004 Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus [frjbrxxx.xxx]6561
Sep 2004 Deductive Logic, by St. George Stock [?ddlgxxx.xxx]6560
Sep 2004 Assyrian Historiography, Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead [?sshgxxx.xxx]6559
Sep 2004 La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret, by Emile Zola [?mourxxx.xxx]6558
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mour10.txt and 7mour10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mour10.txt and 8mour10.zip]
[Language: French]
Sep 2004 Audio: Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allen Poe[usherxxx.xxx]6557C
Sep 2004 Audio: The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair [jungl3xx.xxx]6556C
Sep 2004 Audio: De Profundis, by Oscar Wilde [dprof3xx.xxx]6555C
Sep 2004 Audio: Penrod, by Booth Tarkington [pnrodxxx.xxx]6554C
Sep 2004 Audio: Interlopers at the Knap, by Thomas Hardy [westl3xx.xxx]6553C
[From Wessex Tales]
Sep 2004 Audo: His Own People, by Booth Tarkington [ownpl3xx.xxx]6552C
Sep 2004 Audio: Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [crmyl3xx.xxx]6551C
Sep 2004 Audio: The House of Mapuhi, by Jack London [mapuh3xx.xxx]6550C
[Live audio performance, from London's South Sea Tales]
Sep 2004 Wallensteins Tod, by Friedrich Schiller [?wlltxxx.xxx]6549
[Author AKA: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7wllt10.txt and 7wllt10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8wllt10.txt and 8wllt10.zip]
[Language: German]
Sep 2004 Audio: Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini [cpbld3xx.xxx]6548C
Sep 2004 Audio: The Conquest of Canaan, Booth Tarkington [ccnan3xx.xxx]6547C
Sep 2004 Audio: Beethoven in his Own Words, Kerst&Krehbiel [lvbmaxxx.xxx]6546C
[Full title: Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words]
[Authors' Full Names: edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel]
Sep 2004 Audio: Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction [dugl2xxx.xxx]6545C
[From The Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass]
Sep 2004 Audio: Aaron's Rod, by D. H. Lawrence [aarndxx3.xxx]6544C
Sep 2004 Audio: Droll Stories, by Honore de Balzac [drollxxx.mp3]6543C
Sep 2004 Audio: Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [frankxxx.mp3]6542C
Sep 2004 Audio: South Sea Tales, by Jack London [soset3xx.xxx]6541C
Sep 2004 Audio: The South Pole Vols 1 and 2, Roald Amundsen[tsp123xx.xxx]6540C
Sep 2004 Audio: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, by Victor Hugo[hback3xx.xxx]6539C
[Also known as: Notre-Dame de Paris]
Sep 2004 Audio: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne [200003xx.xxx]6538C
Sep 2004 Audio: Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey [prpsg3xx.xxx]6537C
Sep 2004 Audio: Notes From The Underground, F. Dostoyevsky [notun3xx.xxx]6536C
[Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
Sep 2004 Audio: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagas.[abomb3xx.xxx]6535C
[Full title: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]
Sep 2004 Audio: Dracula, by Bram Stoker [dracu3xx.xxx]6534C
Sep 2004 Audio: A Connecticut Yankee, by Mark Twain [yanke3xx.xxx]6533C
Sep 2004 Audio: Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs [tarzn3xx.xxx]6532C
Sep 2004 All Four Gospels for Readers, by Lightheart [gfullxxx.xxx]6531C
Sep 2004 The Gospel of Mark for Readers, by Lightheart [gmarkxxx.xxx]6530C
Sep 2004 The Gospel of Luke for Readers, by Lightheart [glukexxx.xxx]6529C
(See also etext #'s 5656 and 6356)
Sep 2004 Sagradas Escrituras Version Antigua, by R. Stendal[sagesxxx.xxx]6528C
[Author's Full Name: Russell Martin Stendal]
[Language: Spanish]
[Plain text in sages10.txt/.zip, RTF in sages10r.zip]
Sep 2004 Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage [dguidxxx.xxx]6527C
[Authors: John Goerzen and Ossama Othman]
[Plain text in dguid10.txt/.zip; PDF in dguid10pdf.zip]
[HTML in dguid10h.zip; HTML with frames in dguid10hf.zip]
[TeX in dguid10t.zip; PostScript in dguid10p.zip]
Sep 2004 Any Coincidence Is, by Daniel Callahan [anycixxx.xxx]6526C
[Subtitle: or, The Day Julia & Cecil the Cat Faced a Fate Worse Than Death]
Sep 2004 Die Piccolomini, by Friedrich Schiller [?pcclxxx.xxx]6525
[Author AKA: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7pccl10.txt and 7pccl10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8pccl10.txt and 8pccl10.zip]
Sep 2004 Stray Birds, by Rabindranath Tagore [strybxxx.xxx]6524
[Note: Translated from Bengali to English by the author]
[Plain text in stryb10.txt/.zip; HTML in stryb10h.htm/.zip]
(Note: the .zips include images.)
Sep 2004 The Post Office, by Rabindranath Tagore [poffixxx.xxx]6523
[Note: Translated from Bengali to English by Devabrata Mukherjee]
Sep 2004 Fruit-Gathering, by Rabindranath Tagore [fruitxxx.xxx]6522
Sep 2004 The King of the Dark Chamber,by R. Tagore (trans.)[kdkchxxx.xxx]6521
[Author's Full Name: Rabindranath Tagore (trans.)]
Sep 2004 The Crescent Moon, by Rabindranath Tagore (trans.)[cmoonxxx.xxx]6520
Sep 2004 Songs of Kabir, by Rabindranath Tagore (trans.) [kabirxxx.xxx]6519
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Statistical Review
In the 52 weeks of this year, we have produced 2,451 new eBooks.
Note: it took us from 1971 to 2000 to produce our *FIRST* 2,451 eBooks!!!
That's 52 WEEKS as Compared to 29.5 YEARS!!!
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
year of 2001 and began the production year of 2002.
With 6,733 eBooks online as of January 1, 2003 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.48 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 1.59 percent of the world's population!
This "cost" is down from about $2.33 when we had 4292 eBooks A Year Ago
Can you imagine 6,000 books each costing $.85 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 6,000 books each costing 1/3 less a year later???
At 6743 eBooks in 31 1/2 Years We Averaged
214 Per Year [About how many we do per month these days!]
18 Per Month
.6 Per Day
At 2451 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged
7 eBooks Per Day
48 eBooks Per Week
204 eBooks Per Month !!!
***Headline News***
[My Comments In Brackets]
Headlines From Newsscan
[Time To Start Your Own Software Company?]
SOFTWARE INDUSTRY CONSOLIDATION ON THE RISE
The past month has seen a steady flow of software acquisition deals,
possibly heralding the long-awaited consolidation of the software industry,
which has been predicted since the dot-com bubble burst two years ago.
Topping the list are megadeals, like IBM's $2.1 billion purchase of
software tools maker Rational Software Corp. with smaller buys announced by
Veritas Software, which snapped up Precise Software Solutions for $537
million and Jareva Technologies for $62 million, and Yahoo, which announced
its $235 million acquisition of search engine pioneer Inktomi last week.
And while software companies generally are going for bargain-basement
prices, shareholders are still getting a good deal; Yahoo paid Inktomi
shareholders a 41% premium over the value of their shares, and Veritas
offered a generous 37% premium to acquire Precise -- at the high end of the
usual 25% to 35% premiums offered on software deals. Meanwhile, fund
manager Christian Koch says look for more takeovers, with high probability
targets including CompuWare Corp., BEA Systems and Citrix Systems.
(Wall Street Journal 31 Dec 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1041296399427573153.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
EUROPEAN UNION TO RATE VIDEO GAMES FOR SEX AND VIOLENCE
Violent and sexually-oriented computer games sold in Europe will soon be
getting classifications established by the European Union: games with no
sex or violence at all will get a rating of 3+ and all other games will
receive ratings of 7+, 12+, 16+, or 18+. EU secretary-general Patrice
Chazerand says: "It is only fitting that an industry exerting increasing
influence on people displays an enhanced sense of social responsibility."
(BBC News 29 Dec 2002)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2612983.stm
'SHAKE-UP' CLOSES 3,300 INTERNET CAFES IN CHINA
This summer a deadly fire in the area around Beijing University destroyed
an Internet cafe, killed 25 people, and prompted authorities to close
45,000 establishments, of which 3,300 were never reopened. The fire was
apparently caused by two teenagers angry that they were denied access to
the cafe, but the disaster was used by police officials as a reason to shut
all Internet cafes in China as part of what they called a "shake-up" to
make sure that all such establishments were safe. (Internet World 30 Dec 2002)
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/021230chinainternet/
GOOD NEWS FOR MOORE'S LAW, BUT BAD NEWS FOR ENGINEERING SCHOOLS
A survey of IEEE Fellows, a collection of elite members of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers found that slightly more than half of
the survey respondents believe that Moore's Law will continue for another
five to ten years. (The Law is named after Intel cofounder Gordon Bell and
it states that the number of transistors in a processor will double every
18 months, thus substantially improving processor speed.) That's the good
news; the bad news is that a full 85% of those same respondents think that
top students are no longer choosing engineering as a profession, because
other fields are more lucrative.
(Semiconductor Business News/EETimesUK 30 Dec 2002)
http://www.eetuk.com/bus/news/OEG20021230S0010
JUDGE IMPOSES INJUNCTION AGAINST DOMAIN REGISTRY
Internet domain registrar Register.com has won an injunction against
the Domain Registry of America (DROA) from a federal judge.
Register.com has accused DROA of violating trademarks and of misleading
domain holders to trick them into changing registrars for their
domains. The judge in the case compared the practice to "slamming," a
ploy used by some phone companies to trick customers into thinking
their phone service had been changed to a new company. A court action
this summer prevented VeriSign from sending similarly misleading
messages to domain holders. Register.com said it will seek significant
monetary damages in the case. A trial date has not been set.
CNET, 30 December 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978862.html
REMEMBER PAYPHONES?
When was the last time you used a payphone? The ubiquity of cell phones has
made them increasingly harder to find, and when you do find one you
probably won't see anyone using it. The number of payphones in the U.S. has
gone down from 2.7 million in the mid-1990s to just 1.9 million now, and
the small companies that maintain those phones are going out of the
business. So buy a few payphones, and see if you can sell them on the
Internet for a profit. (Washington Post 30 Dec 2002)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49017-2002Dec28.html
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