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**The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 8, 2003**
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This is rather an *emergency* edition of the newsletter, as a LOT of email
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I am just *guessing* that we did 41 eBooks this week, but I only have some
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. . .much less provide unique filenames. . .some were duplicated, because
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Over Our 31 1/2 Year History, We Have Now Averaged About 200 Ebooks/Year--
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That's 1 WEEK as Compared to Nearly 20 Years
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105 New eBooks Last Week
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2441 New eBooks in 2002
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Jun 1992 Zen & the Art of Internet, Brendan P. Kehoe [zenxxxxx.xxx] 34C
Jun 1992 The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne [#1] [scrltxxx.xxx] 33
May 1992 Herland [for Mother's Day], Charlotte P. Gilman [hrlndxxx.xxx] 32
May 1992 Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy [Three Greek Plays] [oedipxxx.xxx] 31
Apr 1992 New eBook of Bible [KJV] [From many editions] [biblexxx.xxx] 30
Apr 1992 Data From the 1990 Census, US Census Bureau [uscen901.xxx] 29
Mar 1992 Aesop's Fables [Advantage] [Our Second Version] [aesopaxx.xxx] 28
Mar 1992 Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy [Hardy1] [crowdxxx.xxx] 27
Feb 1992 Paradise Lost [Raben] [originally in all CAPS] [plrabnxx.xxx] 26
Feb 1992 The 1991 CIA World Factbook, [CIA Factbook #1] [world91x.xxx] 25
Jan 1992 O Pioneers! Willa Cather [Cather #1] [opionxxx.xxx] 24
Jan 1992 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of [duglasxx.xxx] 23
Dec 1991 Roget's Thesaurus [rogetxxx.xxx] 22
Nov 1991 Aesop's Fables [aesopxxx.xxx] 21
Oct 1991 Paradise Lost, John Milton [Milton #1] [plbossxx.xxx] 20
Sep 1991 The Song of Hiawatha [hisongxx.xxx] 19
Aug 1991 The Federalist Papers [federxxx.xxx] 18
Today Is Day #7 of 2003
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Week #37 Of Our SECOND 5,000 eBooks
Next December, Perhaps Our 10,000th eBook!
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203 Monthly Average Last Year [12 months]
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Oct 2004 A Popular History of Ireland, by T.D. McGee [#3][phrlcxxx.xxx]6634
Oct 2004 A Popular History of Ireland V2, by T.D. McGee[#2][phrl2xxx.xxx]6633
Oct 2004 A Popular History of Ireland V1, by T.D. McGee[#1][phrl1xxx.xxx]6632
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Oct 2004 Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition [scumuxxx.xxx]6631
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[Author's Full Name: Stella G. S. Perry]
Oct 2004 Curiosities of the Sky, by Garrett Serviss [cuskyxxx.xxx]6630
Oct 2004 Mr. Midshipman Easy, by Frederick Marryat [measyxxx.xxx]6629
Oct 2004 John Wilkes Booth, by George Alfred Townhend [jwbthxxx.xxx]6628
[Full title: The Life, Times and Capture of John Wilkes Booth]
Oct 2004 Barriers Burned Away, by E. P. Roe [Roe#15][brrbwxxx.xxx]6627
Oct 2004 Therese Raquin, by Emile Zola [Zola#13][thrqnxxx.xxx]6626
Oct 2004 The Coming of the Friars, by Augustus Jessopp [cmfrsxxx.xxx]6625
Oct 2004 Ancient China Simplified, by Edward Harper Parker [?chsmxxx.xxx]6624
Oct 2004 Coming of the Princess, by Kate Seymour Maclean [cmprcxxx.xxx]6623
[Full title: The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems]
Oct 2004 Legends That Every Child Should Know,H.W.Mabie[#3][lrchkxxx.xxx]6622
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Oct 2004 Poems of the Heart and Home, by Mrs. J.C. Yule [pmhrhxxx.xxx]6621
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Oct 2004 Audio: The Time Machine, H.G. Wells [timem3xx.xxx]6620C
Oct 2004 Poems and Songs, by Bjornstjerne Bjornson [psongxxx.xxx]6619
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Can you imagine 6,000 books each costing 1/3 less a year later???
At 6770 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 27 eBooks Done In 2003 We Averaged
3 eBooks Per Day
27 eBooks Per Week
204 eBooks Per Month [Last Year]
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EU COPYRIGHT LAWS SPAWN 'FREE-SWAPPING ZONE' FOR OLDIES
European and Canadian copyright protections for audio recordings last just
50 years, compared with 95 years in the U.S., a disparity that has spawned
a boomlet in legitimate sales of golden oldies from 1950s artists, ranging
from Miles Davis to Elvis Presley. The expiration of music copyrights
overseas just adds one more piece to an antipiracy puzzle that is growing
increasingly complex. "There are some implications for enforcement,
creating an additional wrinkle," says Neil Turkewitz, executive VP for
international affairs at the Recording Industry Association of America.
"But it doesn't affect the legality of a U.S. user accessing a foreign hard
drive and downloading a file." Record industry officials say they are
keeping an eye out for the emergence of Web sites that offer archives of
material that is in the public domain in a foreign country but still
illegal to trade freely in the U.S. If a Web-based service comes online, it
may be possible to block access to the site from the U.S. by going through
ISPs, says Turkewitz. Trying to shut down peer-to-peer services would be
more difficult, however, he acknowledges. That's part of the reason that
the RIAA has been pressuring European policy-makers to extend their
copyright protections to match those of the U.S., but so far those efforts
have met with little success. (CNet News.com 7 Jan 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979532.html?tag=lh
[Time To Start Your Own Software Company?]
ONLINE POLLS REFLECT CONSERVATIVE OUTLOOK
While both Democrats and Republicans were likely to turn to the Internet as
a source of news and political information during last fall's midterm
elections, Republicans were much more likely to register their views in
online polls, according to a study by the Pew Internet and American Life
project. Nearly half of the Republicans who went online in search of
election news said they liked to participate in online polls, compared with
23% of Democrats. The bottom line is that Web sites operating online polls
should take those results with a grain of salt, says Lee Rainie, director
of the Pew project. "They very much skew toward more conservative views.
People who rely on Internet polls are relying on a false indicator."
(Wired.com 6 Jan 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57093,00.html
'DVD JON' ACQUITTED BY NORWEGIAN COURT
Jon Lech Johansen (also known as DVD Jon), who was accused of illegally
developing and distributing the DeCSS program for breaking the digital
copy-protection mechanism on DVDs, has been acquitted in a Norwegian court.
The rationale for the judge's decision was that the software could be used
for legal purposes as well as illegal ones. "If a person's motive is to
solely encourage or solicit illegal actions, then it would be illegal to
distribute it" -- but the court made the judgment that Johansen was not
motivated in that way. (PC World 7 Jan 2003)
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108462,00.asp
SUPREME COURT BACKS OFF ON DVD DESCRAMBLING CODE
The U.S. Supreme Court has rescinded an emergency stay barring defendant
Matthew Pavlovich from distributing DeCSS, a software utility that
descrambles the digital lock on most DVDs to prevent copying them.
Pavlovich is now free to distribute the code, but could be sued again if he
[odd comment]
decides to do so. "The entertainment companies need to stop pretending that
DeCSS is a secret," says Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, which is assisting Pavlovich. "Justice O'Connor
correctly saw that there was no need for emergency relief to keep DeCSS a
secret. It doesn't pass the giggle test." The rescission is just the latest
twist in a case that has been winding its way through the courts since
1999, when the DVD Copy Control Association -- a coalition of movie studios
and consumer electronics makers -- filed a lawsuit against scores of people,
alleging violations of California's trade secret laws.
(CNet News.com 3 Jan 2003)
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PUBLISHERS EXPUNGE ARTICLES, UPSET RESEARCHERS
Elsevier Science, the largest publisher of scientific journals, has
begun removing certain articles from its database. In place of the
articles, an online search now offers a note that simply says the
article has been removed "for legal reasons." Other publishers have
taken steps to expunge particular articles, for reasons ranging from an
article's having been published previously elsewhere to inclusion of
political statements that the publishers deemed "inappropriate" for
publication in a particular journal. Many researchers object to the
practice, however, saying that altering the historical record of a
journal distorts efforts at scholarship and, in certain cases, can lead
to faulty research or even poor medical decisions. Mark S. Frankel of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science said, "There
should be a digital trail which allows these things to be seen,
observed, and studied."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 January 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i18/18a02701.htm
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
SWITCHING CARRIERS GETS EASIER
As of November 24, 2003, switching wireless carriers will be much
simpler than it is now. A regulation requiring phone number portability
will go into effect, allowing users to change carriers without changing
numbers. The wireless industry had fought against the rule, earning a
one-year extension of the deadline, but ultimately lost to pressure
from consumers and regulators. The process of switching Internet
service providers (ISPs) is being simplified as well, due in part to
efforts from ISPs and from companies such as Esaya, which has developed
a tool that streamlines migrating to a new ISP. Research shows that a
majority of users see the difficulty of switching e-mail addresses,
calendars, and the like as an obstacle to changing ISPs. According to a
representative of Esaya, however, the market is largely saturated, and
most of any ISP's current customers have transferred from another provider.
Wired News, 30 December 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56675,00.html
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