The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 16th April 2003
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
Part 2
We have now completed 7666 ebooks!!!
In this part of the Project Gutenberg Weekly newsletter:
1) Editorial
2) News
3) Notes and Queries
4) This week in history
5) Mailing list information
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1) Editorial
Hello,
What's that saying? You wait ages and then three come along at
once. Usually this is a reference is to the UK bus system, but in this
case it's your newsletter. To make things easier on the eyesight and
so that you can access the sections you like the most first, we have
demerged it. We would like to know what you think, so please let us
know at the address below. All contributions welcome for the
Shakespeare special next week (Do I sound desparate yet?), and there
is a nice piece below about Nobel Prize Winners from Col Choat.
Happy and peaceful reading,
Alice
(newsletter at schiffwood.co.uk - If you hit reply, the mail you
send does not reach me and disappears into the ether.)
We welcome feedback, critisism (of any kind), ebook reviews, featured
author suggestions, writings and awkward questions at the address above. Please feel free to send our general ramblings to a friend.
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2) News
PG on DVD!
This week at Geek Lunch I showed off our first DVD,
compliments of Devin Casenhiser, which has all of
our files up to around Valentine's day when Greg
Newby backed up everything on CDs for the DVD.
It's fantastic. . .over 8,000 files, one whole
copy of the Human Genome, and still only 1/2 full!
Looks as if we will be able to put the entire PG
collection on ONE DVD at the end of this year,
Human Genome and all!!!
Michael
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The Nobel Prize for Literature
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The Nobel Prize for Literature was first awarded in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme.
Since that year it has been awarded every year, except for six occasions
during the First and second World Wars. The list of laureates may be viewed
at the official Nobel site at
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/index.html.
Winners include
1907 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
1913 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
1923 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
1925 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
1930 Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
1932 John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
1936 Eugene O'Neill (188-1953)
We will soon be starting a Nobel Prize page at Project Gutenberg of
Australia to highlight the individual works by these authors and to
provide for easy download of the ebooks available from Project
Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg of Australia.
I believe that all of the above authors are represented at PG or PGofOz,
with the exception of Eugene O'Neill. Since his work enters the public
domain in Australia in 2004, we hope to correct that deficiency next year.
If you are aware of any other Nobel Prize winners represented at PG, which
are not listed above, please email me at colc@gutenberg.net.au so that
they can be shown on our Nobel page.
A worthwhile project would be to endeavour to have online all works
by these authors (and any which I may have missed )which are in the
public domain.
And, as I am sure Alice would agree, there is plenty of material in the
subjects of Nobel Prize and Nobel Laureates and their works to provide some
interesting articles for the newsletter and/or the PGofOz Nobel page.
Col Choat
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3) Notes and Queries
A contribution of a different kind this week. If you would like to
read the Time Out article that mentions PG, run along to
http://www.timeoutny.com/byteme/386/386.tech.opner.html
Well, as I said at the top. We've ran out, so please help fill this
space by sending along questions or contributions to
newsletter at schiffwood.co.uk.
Please remember that just hitting reply doesn't work
as your mail will just disappear never to be read again.
Contributions for the Shakespeare special and Nobel prize winners
gladly accepted.
This space to let.
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4) This week in history
Literary Dates of Interest this week
Birthdays this week:
April
16th Anatole France, Kingsley Amis
17th Karen Blixen, Constantine Cavafy, Thornton Wilder
18th Viljo Tarkiainen, Lief Panduro
19th Richard Hughes, Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre
20th Oscar Parland, Marcus Aurelius
21st Charlotte Bronte, Bjorn Landstrom
22nd Immanuel Kant, Madam de Stael, Henry Fielding, James Norman Hall
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Credits
Thanks this time go to Brett and George for the number crunching and
the booklists crunching. Mark (who needs to brew more beer), Greg for
trying to getus organised, Michael and Larry Wall. Entertainment for the
workers provided by Andrew Collins and his new teeth. This newsletter
brought to you by chaos theory.
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