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Already About 8% Of The Way From 9,000 to 10,000!!!
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Simple Gifts
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A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter (aka Constant Lovers)
The Fisher Who Died in His Bed
Ufros Alienu
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203 Average Per Month in 2002 <<<
103 Average Per Month in 2001 <<<
2336 New eBooks in 2003
2441 New eBooks in 2002
1240 New eBooks in 2001
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6017 New eBooks Since Start Of 2001
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FLASHBACK!!!
2336 New eBooks So Far in 2003
It took us 29 years for the first 2336!
That's the 33 WEEKS of 2003 as Compared to 29 YEARS!!!
Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #2336
Nov 2000 Vikram and the Vampire, by Sir Richard F. Burton [vikrvxxx.xxx] 2400
Nov 2000 Imaginary Portraits, by Walter Pater [W. Pater #2][iprtrxxx.xxx] 2399
Nov 2000 The Renaissance, by Walter Pater [rnsncxxx.xxx] 2398
Nov 2000 Story of My Life, by Helen Keller [kellexxx.xxx] 2397
Nov 2000 History of the Catholic Church, by J. MacCaffrey [hcathxxx.xxx] 2396
Nov 2000 The Golden Fleece, by Padraic Colum [fleecxxx.xxx] 2395
[This is not the same as eBook #1614, The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne]
Nov 2000 The Grand Canyon of Arizona, by George W. James [gcoazxxx.xxx] 2394
Nov 2000 His Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune [hsdogxxx.xxx] 2393
Nov 2000 Further Adventures of Lad, Albert Payson Terhune [faladxxx.xxx] 2392
Nov 2000 Bruce, by Albert Payson Terhune [brucexxx.xxx] 2391
Nov 2000 The Conquest of the Old Southwest, by Henderson [cnqswxxx.xxx] 2390
Nov 2000 Bardelys the Magnificent, by Rafael Sabatini [bardexxx.xxx] 2389
Nov 2000 The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold [bgitaxxx.xxx] 2388
Nov 2000 The Voice, by Margaret Deland [voicexxx.xxx] 2387
Nov 2000 Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, Thayer [teddyxxx.xxx] 2386
Nov 2000 Gala-Days, by Gail Hamilton (Abigail Dodge) [galadxxx.xxx] 2385
Nov 2000 The Deliverance, by Ellen Glasgow [delivxxx.xxx] 2384
Nov 2000 Canterbury Tales and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer[cbtlsxxx.xxx] 2383
Nov 2000 Proposed Territory of Arizona, Sylvester Mowry [tarizxxx.xxx] 2382
Nov 2000 Actions and Reactions, by Rudyard Kipling [RK#13][actrexxx.xxx] 2381
Nov 2000 Das Maerchen von dem Myrtenfraeulein, C. Brentano [?myrtxxx.xxx] 2380
Nov 2000 Chastelard, by Algernon Charles Swinburne [chastxxx.xxx] 2379
Oct 2000 Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, Mackail [?efgmxxx.xxx] 2378
Oct 2000 The Son of the Wolf, by Jack London [London ###] [snwlfxxx.xxx] 2377
Oct 2000 Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington [slvryxxx.xxx] 2376
Oct 2000 Tartarin de Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet [trtraxxx.xxx] 2375
(See also #1862, a different translation)
Oct 2000 Dora Thorne, by Charlotte M. Braeme [doratxxx.xxx] 2374
Oct 2000 The Path of the Law, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.[#2][pthlwxxx.xxx] 2373
Oct 2000 The Woman-Haters, by Joseph C. Lincoln [wmnhrxxx.xxx] 2372
Oct 2000 The Filigree Ball, by Anna Katherine Green [AKG#4][flgblxxx.xxx] 2371
Oct 2000 Sir Gibbie, by George MacDonald [GM #8][sirgbxxx.xxx] 2370
Oct 2000 One of Ours, by Willa Cather [Willa Cather #6][1oursxxx.xxx] 2369
Oct 2000 The Angel and the Author et al, by J K Jerome[#23][angauxxx.xxx] 2368
Oct 2000 Los Bombardeos Atomicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki/SP[sbombxxh.xxx] 2367
[English title: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]
(Note: This is our HTML Spanish edition; see #685 for our English edition.)
Oct 2000 The Beldonald Holbein, by Henry James [James #22][bldhbxxx.xxx] 2366
Oct 2000 The Princess de Montpensier, by Mme. de Lafayette [?mntpxxx.xxx] 2365
Oct 2000 Active Service, by Stephen Crane[Stephen Crane #3][tvsrvxxx.xxx] 2364
Oct 2000 Incognita, by William Congreve[William Congreve#5][ncogaxxx.xxx] 2363
Oct 2000 The Story of Wellesly, by Florence Converse [wlslyxxx.xxx] 2362
Oct 2000 Why Go To College, by Alice Freeman Palmer [y2clgxxx.xxx] 2361
Oct 2000 Riddle of the Sands, by Erskine Childers [riddlxxx.xxx] 2360
Oct 2000 Stories by English Authors in France, Scribners Ed[sbeafxxx.xxx] 2359
Oct 2000 The After House, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #14][ftrhsxxx.xxx] 2358
Oct 2000 Great Jehoshaphat & Gully Dirt, Jewell Ellen Smith[gjagdxxh.xxx] 2357C
Oct 2000 Tommy and Co., by Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome #22][tomcoxxx.xxx] 2356
Oct 2000 The Formation of Vegetable Mould, by Darwin [CD#9][vgmldxxx.xxx] 2355
Oct 2000 On the Brain, by T. H. Huxley [THH#3] [Darwin #8][huxbrxxx.xxx] 2354
Oct 2000 Tea-table Talk, by Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome #21][ttalkxxx.xxx] 2353
Oct 2000 Eurasia, by Chris. Evans [uasiaxxx.xxx] 2352
Oct 2000 John Halifax, Gentleman, by Mrs. Craik:Dinah Maria[halifxxx.xxx] 2351
Oct 2000 His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle[A.C.Doyle #23][lstbwxxx.xxx] 2350
Oct 2000 The Adv. of The Devil's Foot, A. Conan Doyle [#22][dvlftxxx.xxx] 2349
Oct 2000 The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax [ACD #21][lcrfxxxx.xxx] 2348
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Dying Detective, A Conan Doyle #20[dydetxxx.xxx] 2347
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Bruce-Partington Plans [Doyle #19][bplanxxx.xxx] 2346
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Red Circle A. Conan Doyle [#18][rcrclxxx.xxx] 2345
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Cardboard Box, by Conan Doyle #17[crdbdxxx.xxx] 2344
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of Wisteria Lodge, A. Conan Doyle [#16][wstraxxx.xxx] 2343
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][?wml8xxx.xxx] 2342
thru
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][?wml1xxx.xxx] 2335
Sep 2000 The Works of Rudyard Kipling/One Volume Edition/12[1vkipxxx.xxx] 2334
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***Headline News***
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From Newsscan:
INTERNET STAYS LIGHT DURING BLACKOUT
During yesterday's blackout in northeast U.S. states and several major
Canadian cities, wireless networks and Internet connections allowed people
to keep communicating. The chief business officer of Equinix, which
operates Internet Business Exchange centers that serve more than 90% of the
world's Internet routes, explains: "We lost all utility power out there,
but we immediately went to battery power for a few seconds, at which point
all of our major generators kicked in" to allow normal operations that were
"totally seamless to customers." Internet customers therefore suffered "no
disruptions whatsoever" to their Internet service resulting from the
electrical system failures. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 15 Aug 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6540489.htm
[For Those Who Doubt There Are Billions Of Computers. . .at this growth rate
it only takes about 5 years for a billion more computers to be sold. . . .]
PC SALES COULD REACH NEW HIGH IN 2003
Gartner has adjusted its estimate of worldwide PC shipments upward to 161
million this year, hitting a new benchmark for the industry, says Gartner
analyst Kiyomi Yamada. Gartner recently rejiggered its method of accounting
for unit shipments to include units previously overlooked, says Yamada. The
error was revealed when Gartner noticed a discrepancy between the number of
components, such as processors, and the number of finished PCs. The
difference pointed to a previously unrecognized market for so-called
white-box PCs -- machines that are usually assembled and sold by small
companies. Gartner has since gone back and revised its PC unit shipment
numbers for at least the past six years, boosting those figures
accordingly. Meanwhile, IDC has predicted a 2003 unit shipment increase of
6.3% to 145 million, but analyst Roger Kay says the firm may revise those
numbers upward, based on hot sales of notebook computers.
(CNet News.com 14 Aug 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1003_3-5063927.html?tag=lh
[And half of those new computers will be laptops. . .not desk machines.]
[Napster Was Right. . .And Is NOT Being Allowed To Play]
MICROSOFT TEAMS WITH UK FIRM ON EUROPEAN MUSIC SERVICE
Microsoft and London-based On Demand Distribution (OD2) have teamed up to
offer a pay-per-song pan-European Internet music service modeled after
Apple's popular U.S. iTunes service. OD2 possesses the largest catalog of
legal digital music in Europe, listing more than 200,000 tracks by 8,500
artists on all five record labels, plus a healthy representation of
independents. The downloads will be priced at 99 euro cents ($1.12) apiece
and can be accessed through the MSN Music Club or Tiscali Music Club using
Microsoft's Windows Media Player 9 software. The bold move has caught the
attention of European Union regulators who are still pursuing an antitrust
case against the software giant and have specifically targeted the Windows
Media Player software in their investigation. "We like that the European
consumer now has access to songs for 99 cents," says an EU spokesman, but
the new deal "reinforces the impression" that businesses are designing
services for Media Player because of its dominance. "This shows how
important it is to have your particular media player software linked to the
dominant desktop." (AP 14 Aug 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030814/D7STU4880.html
[Never Believe ANYthing Has Been Erased!]
WEALTH OF CORPORATE SECRETS ON THE WEB
Many documents posted online may contain sensitive corporate or personal
information, according to AT&T researcher Simon Byers, who was able to
unearth hidden information from thousands of Microsoft Word documents
posted on the Web using an ordinary search engine and a random selection of
keywords. Byers targeted Word documents because they're so common, but he
stressed that other document formats, such as Adobe PDF, may contain
similar hidden information. After downloading the Word files, Byer used the
free software tools "antiword" and "catdoc" to convert them to plain text.
Then, using a simple script he wrote, Byers was able to locate text that
had been deleted from the original Word files, including people's names and
other personal identifiers, e-mail headers, network paths and text from
related documents. "The worst is erased text. This has bitten people
surprisingly often," says Bruce Schneier, a security expert with
Counterpane. Microsoft Office UK marketing manager Neil Laver says the
company is working on ways to better ensure sensitive information is not
inadvertently leaked in files. The next version of Office 2003 will include
tools that will allow users to remove personal information from documents
as well as new "information rights management" software that will enable an
author to determine who can read or forward a document. Meanwhile, Schneier
recommends converting documents to plain ASCII before publishing online: "I
don't know of any programs that effectively clean out the extra text."
(New Scientist 15 Aug 2003)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994057
RIVALS RATTLE GOOGLE WITH SEARCH INNOVATIONS
Google may be king of the hill in the search engine scene, but new
technologies introduced by competitors are aimed at shaking up the market.
One of the most technically interesting is Teoma, which was acquired by
AskJeeves in 2001. Teoma's advantage is that rather than relying on a page
ranking algorithm to determine how to list search results, it uses an
algorithm that reveals the Web "communities" around a particular topic and
what they're currently discussing. So that if you searched on "power
blackout" on Friday, Teoma's "refinements" section (on the right side of
the screen) included "electrical surge" and "cost of downtime." "It's a
great way to learn about a topic, or to find the precise thing for which
you are looking, without having to actually go to a lot of links," says
Wall Street Journal columnist Lee Gomes, who adds that AltaVista has
something similar on its Web site. And while the final outcome of the
search engine wars is still up in the air, "What's indisputable is that the
world of search engines is scene to more innovation and competition than
many folks realize," says Gomes. (Wall Street Journal 18 Aug 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106115787227742500,00.html (sub req'd)
REALISTICALLY, YOU SHOULD PLAN TO GET A 64-BIT MACHINE
Apple already has 100,000 orders for its new $2,000-3,000 64-bit-processor
G5 machines, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will be launching its 64-bit
Athlon 64 FX processor next month. Richard Heye of AMD predicts,
"Sixty-four-bit computing will take off faster than people think." A 64-bit
processor can theoretically handle 16 quintillion (i.e., 16 billion
billion) bytes of random access memory (RAM). Computer designer Richard
Doherty of the consulting firm Envisioneering says that 64-bit computing
"will put a tremendous amount of power into the hands of scientific
researchers and engineers first, and to a secondary degree to some artists
who want to express themselves in three-dimensional design." Even now,
Hollywood digital animation studios require at least two gigabytes of RAM
to render a single frame of some movies -- and adding even more realism to
computer graphics will increase RAM demands exponentially.(New York Times
18 Aug 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18NECO.html
[Satellite and Laptops. . .Now The Prevalent Modes Of Operation]
SATELLITE IS CHEAPER THAN CABLE
The price of satellite television reception has dropped below that of cable
for the first time ever, according to a new study by J.D. Power &
Associates. The price differential between the two competing technologies
has "narrowed significantly" over the last five years, with the current
average satellite TV cost up 8% to $48.93 a month. During the same time
period, the average cable TV bill has soared 41% to $49.62 a month. Much of
that increase is attributed to the cost of upgrading networks and adding
new services, such as digital TV and video-on-demand, but those efforts
haven't proven successful in boosting customer loyalty. "Digital cable
hasn't turned out to be the solution the cable industry needed to stem the
tide of migration to satellite providers," says J.D. Powers senior director
Steve Kirby. The report suggests cable providers should focus on improving
customer service and possibly bundling television with other services.
(Wall Street Journal 19 Aug 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10613168321296100,00.html (sub req'd)
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SEEKING PARTNERS FOR DIGITAL PROJECT
The Library of Congress is looking for partners for the National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, whose goal
is to protect digital content from being lost. Applications are being
accepted through November 12 for awards of between $500,000 and $3
million, which will be distributed in February of next year. Organizers
of the program said it will work to create a system for gathering and
preserving content such as Web sites, electronic books and journals,
and films and sounds in electronic format. A spokesman for the Library
of Congress said that the project is not one that the library can do
without a group of committed partners.
Federal Computer Week, 15 August 2003
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0811/web-loc-08-15-03.asp
INTERNET UNAFFECTED BY POWER FAILURE
According to Keynote Systems, which tracks performance of the Internet,
the power outage affecting parts of the northeastern United States and
Canada has not affected the Internet. A statement from Keynote Systems
noted that as of Thursday afternoon the Internet and all major U.S. Web
sites were performing normally. Cell phone call volume was extremely
high, however, causing congestion on networks that have been able to
keep operating on back-up power from generators. Sprint and Verizon
advised customers to be patient and indicated that some calls to the
east coast might be blocked to ensure availability for emergency calls.
New York Times, 14 August 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/technology/14POWE-NET.html
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