The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 30th April 2003
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
Part 3
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= [ Here Are The Updated Listings For This Past Week ] =
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TOTAL COUNT as of today, Wed 04/30/03: 7,803 (incl. 226 Aus.).
Last week the Total Count was 7,743, including 223 at PG of Australia.
This week we added 60 new (incl. 3 Aus.).
RESERVED count: 39
=-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, xxxxx11.txt, and
prior to 1998, occasionally a new eBook number.
VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, xxxxx10a.txt, as
well as a new eBook number.
--Please note the following changes, corrections and improvements:
The following is being re-indexed to correct the supplemental
information line:
Jan 2005 Carta da Companhia, by St. Joseph Anchieta [8cartxxx.xxx]7384
[Anchieta is considered the first Brazilian author, d.1597]
[Language: Portuguese]
We have posted the following in new formats as indicated:
Jan 2005 Species and Varieties, by Hugo DeVries [spvrtxxx.xxx]7234
[Posted in etext05: spvrt10h.zip - zipped only]
Dec 2004 The Bushman, by Edward Wilson Landor [bshmnxxx.xxx]7181
[HTML in bshmn10h.htm/.zip]
=-=-=-=[ 57 NEW U.S. POSTS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#141][b141wxxx.xxx]7714
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7702-7713]
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 12 [BL#140][b140wxxx.xxx]7713
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 11 [BL#139][b139wxxx.xxx]7712
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 10 [BL#138][b138wxxx.xxx]7711
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 9 [BL#137][b137wxxx.xxx]7710
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 8 [BL#136][b136wxxx.xxx]7709
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 7 [BL#135][b135wxxx.xxx]7708
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 6 [BL#134][b134wxxx.xxx]7707
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 5 [BL#133][b133wxxx.xxx]7706
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 4 [BL#132][b132wxxx.xxx]7705
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 3 [BL#131][b131wxxx.xxx]7704
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 2 [BL#130][b130wxxx.xxx]7703
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 1 [BL#129][b129wxxx.xxx]7702
Sep 2002 The Koran/The Q'uran, by Mohammed/Mohammad [koranxxb.xxx]7440
[Subtitle: aka The Q'uran and other transliterations] [Tr.: George Sale]
[See also eBooks #3434 and 2800.]
{NOTE: Version 09 being posted pending further formatting.)
[Plain text in koran09b.txt/.zip, RTF in koran09br.zip]
Feb 2005 Engish Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed [?eftlxxx.xxx]7439
Feb 2005 Friends in Council (First Series),Sir Arthur Helps[frccxxxx.xxx]7438
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Text in frcc10.txt/.zip, XHTML in frcc10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2005 A Peep Behind the Scenes, by Mrs. O. F. Walton [bescnxxx.xxx]7437
Feb 2005 Religious Liberty in Connecticut, by M. L. Greene [?rconxxx.xxx]7436
[Full title: The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut]
[Full author: M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.]
Feb 2005 Springhaven, by R. D. Blackmore [#4][sphavxxx.xxx]7435
Feb 2005 The Adventures of Joel Pepper, by Margaret Sidney [jopepxxx.xxx]7434
[Also posted in illustrated HTML - jopep10h.zip and jopep10h.htm]
Feb 2005 The Awkward Age, by Henry James [#47][akagexxx.xxx]7433
Feb 2005 On Nothing & Kindred Subjects, Hilaire Belloc [#4][?nothxxx.xxx]7432
Feb 2005 Confessions and Criticisms,by Julian Hawthorne[#8][?jhccxxx.xxx]7431
Feb 2005 Familiar Spanish Travels, by W. D. Howells [sptrvxxx.xxx]7430
[Also posted an illustrated HTMLversion - sptrv10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Trials and Triumphs of Faith, by Mary Cole [trtrfxxx.xxx]7429
Feb 2005 The Consumer Viewpoint, by Mildred Maddocks [cnsvpxxx.xxx]7428
[Also posted HTML - cnsvp10h.zip and cnsvp10h.htm]
Feb 2005 Toasts, by William Pittenger [?tostxxx.xxx]7427
Feb 2005 Chicot the Jester, by Alexandre Dumas [#33][?chicxxx.xxx]7426
Feb 2005 The Louisa Alcott Reader, by Louisa M. Alcott [?louixxx.xxx]7425
[Also in HTML in 8loui10h.htm and in illustrated HTML in 8loui10h.zip]
Feb 2005 The Wishing-Ring Man, by Margaret Widdemer [?wishxxx.xxx]7424
[Also posted HTML - 8wish10h.zip and 8wish10h.htm]
Feb 2005 Mike, by P. G. Wodehouse [#25][mikewxxx.xxx]7423
(Note: based on original 1909 edition, which was later split into two
(separate books, published as "Mike at Wrykin" and "Mike and Psmith".)
[Also posted HTML as mikew10h.zip - zipped only]
Feb 2005 Roman Holidays and Others, by W. D. Howells [whromxxx.xxx]7422
[Also posted HTML - whrom10h.zip and whrom10h.htm]
Feb 2005 Poems of Optimism, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox [pmopxxxx.xxx]7421
[Text in pmop10.txt/.zip, XHTML in pmop10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2005 You meng yin, Complete, by Zhang chao [#3][?you3xxx.xxx]7420
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 You meng yin, Part 2., by Zhang chao [#2][?you2xxx.xxx]7419
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 You meng yin, Part 1., by Zhang chao [#1][?you1xxx.xxx]7418
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 The Resources of Quinola, by Honore de Balzac [thrsrxxx.xxx]7417
Feb 2005 The Thirteen, by Honore de Balzac [thrtnxxx.xxx]7416
[Intro. by George Saintsbury]
Contents:
Ferragus (see also #1649)
The Duchesse de Langeais (see also #469)
La Fille aux Yeux d'Or (see also #1659)
Feb 2005 A Shepherd's Life, by W. H. Hudson [shlifxxx.xxx]7415
[Subtitle: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs]
[HTML version in shlif10h.htm and shlif10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Poor White, by Sherwood Anderson [#4][pwhitxxx.xxx]7414
Feb 2005 Egyptian Tales, V2, by W. M. Flinders Petrie [egpt2xxx.xxx]7413
[Full title: Egyptian Tales, Second Series]
[Also posted HTML - egpt210h.zip and egpt210h.htm]
Feb 2005 Coningsby, by Benjamin Disraeli [?cngbxxx.xxx]7412
[Subtitle: The New Generation]
[Plain text in 7cngb10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8cngb10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 Art-Lovers guide to the Exposition, Shelden Cheney[atexpxxx.xxx]7411
Feb 2005 The Minister's Charge, by William D. Howells [?michxxx.xxx]7410
[Subtitle: The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker]
[Plain text in 7mich10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8mich10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 An Essay on Criticism, by Alexander Pope [esycrxxx.xxx]7409
[Also posted HTML - esycr10h.zip and esycr10h.htm]
Feb 2005 Shen jian, by xun yue [?xysjxxx.xxx]7408
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 Qi jing, by zhang ni [?qijixxx.xxx]7407
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 Cha jing (A.D.733--A.D.804), by lu yu [?jingxxx.xxx]7406
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 The Real Dope, by Ring Lardner [rldpexxx.xxx]7405
[Also posted HTML as rldpe10h.zip - zipped only]
Feb 2005 John James Audubon, by John Burroughs [?jjauxxx.xxx]7404
[Plain text in 7jjau10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8jjau10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8jjau10h.htm and 8jjau10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Letters of Catherine Benincasa,Catherine Benincasa[?ltcbxxx.xxx]7403
[Subtitle: Saint Catherine of Siena as Seen in Her Letters]
[Editor: Vida D. Scudder] [Tr.: Vida D. Scudder]
[Plain text in 7ltcb10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8ltcb10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 De Bello Catilinario et Jurgthino, by Sallustius [debcjxxx.xxx]7402
[Author: C. Sallustii Crispi; AKA Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallust)]
[From: Classical Series. Edited By Drs. Schmitz And Zumpt]
[Language: Latin with notes in English]
Feb 2005 A Crystal Age, by W. H. Hudson [crystxxx.xxx]7401
[Also posted HTML - cryst10h.zip and cryst10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Grisly Grisell, by Charlotte M. Yonge [grgrxxxx.xxx]7387
[Subtitle: or the Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses]
[Text in grgr10.txt/.zip, XHTML in grgr10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Egyptian Tales, V1, ed. by W. M. Flinders Petrie [egpt1xxx.xxx]7386
[Full title: Egyptian Tales, First Series]
[Also posted HTML - egpt110h.zip and egpt110h.htm]
Jan 2005 Old Calabria, by Norman Douglas [?ocalxxx.xxx]7385
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7ocal10.txt and 7ocal10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8ocal10.txt and 8ocal10.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8ocal10h.htm and 8ocal10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Shang zi, by yang shang [?shzixxx.xxx]7383
[Language: Chinese]
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Apr 2003 Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery [030077xx.xxx]0226A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300771h.zip ZIPPED HTML ONLY]
[Language: French]
Apr 2003 Marie Grubbe, by Jens Peter Jacobsen [030076xx.xxx]0225A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300761.txt or .ZIP]
[Translated from the Danish by Hanna Astrup Larsen]
Apr 2003 Niels Lyhne, by Jens Peter Jacobsen [030075xx.xxx]0224A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300751h.zip ZIPPED HTML ONLY]
[Translated from the Danish by Hanna Astrup Larsen]
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The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 30th April 2003
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
Part 2
We have now completed 7803 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,
And there went 7800!!!
It's nice to see these milestones go crashing to the ground. Another
couple of landmarks are mentioned below, and here at the newsletter we
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2) News
Morpheus Ruling
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federal judge has ruled that companies such as Morpheus are not guilty
of copyright infringement if users share copyrighted music via the
companies peer to peer software. This is an important issue for PG, as
it will affect the way our texts could be distributed. Our very own
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the case on behalf of PG. Essentially (and as cited in the ruling),
he demonstrated significant non-infringing uses of the file sharing
software, for exchanging PG's eBooks.
It's appropriate for us to encourage PG readers to share files via
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The court understood that a technology company shouldn't be held
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VCR, the photocopier and the PC would all have been stillborn.
Meanwhile, the entertainment industries will doubtless be appealing
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by possible recourse to the Supreme Court.
The ruling is 34 double-spaced pages and can be found here:
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The newspaper also ran a short editorial ...
The Australian WED 30 APR 2003, Page 012
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The Little Prince
From: Col Choat
This week we are posting Le Petit Prince by Saint-Exupery, in French. It is
our first ebook in a language other than English. It is a html with the
beautiful original illustrations drawn by the author.
A volunteer was working on an English translation, but seems to have given
up, as I have not heard from her for some time and she does not answer my
email. Unfortunately I lent here my copy of the French version of the book
to translate from and haven't seen it again either. C'est la vie.
If someone in a "plus fifty" country is interested in translating "The
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{Bit of a theme this week. Ed}
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4) This week in history
Literary Dates of Interest this week
Birthdays this week:
April
30th Alice B Toklas, Jaroslav Hasek
May
1st Joseph Heller*, Giovanni Guareschi
2nd Novalis
3rd Juhani Siljo, Yehuda Amichai, Nick Joaquin, Niccolo Macciavelli
4th Elvi Sinervo, Tauno Yliruusi
5th Soren Kierkegaard, Henry Sienkiewicz, Amos Tutuola, Miklos Radnoti
6th Sigmund Freud(1), Gaston Leroux, Inoue Yasushi, Harry Martinson
Deaths
1708 Simon de Vries
1891 Sherlock Holmes**
1943 Beatrice Potter Webb
1956 Charles R Gallas
1968 Harold G Nicolson
1972 Hugo Hartung
1984 Piet van Aken
1994 Louis Calaferte
* Catch-22 Good book, great film, if a little confusing! I am not a
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** Yes, I know it's poetic license, but I'm in charge!
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Aug 1997 H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante, Entire Comedy [0ddccxxx.xxx]1008
Aug 1997 H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante, Paradise [3ddccxxx.xxx]1007
Aug 1997 H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante, Puragorty [2ddccxxx.xxx]1006
Aug 1997 H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante, Hell [1ddccxxx.xxx]1005
Aug 1997 Longfellow's Translation of Dante, Entire Comedy [0ddclxxx.xxx]1004
Aug 1997 Longfellow's Translation of Dante Paradise [3ddclxxx.xxx]1003
Aug 1997 Longfellow's Translation of Dante, Purgatory [2ddclxxx.xxx]1002
Aug 1997 Longfellow's Translation of Dante, Inferno [1ddclxxx.xxx]1001 Aug 1997 Longfellow's Translation of Dante, Inferno [1ddclxxx.xxx]1001
Aug 1997 La Divina Commedia di Dante in Italian, 7-bit text[0ddcdxxx.xxx]1000
Aug 1997 Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso, 7-bit Italian [3ddcdxxx.xxx] 999
Aug 1997 Divina Commedia di Dante: Purgatorio 7-bit Italian[2ddcdxxx.xxx] 998
Aug 1997 Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno, 7-bit Italian [1ddcdxxx.xxx] 997
Jul 1997 Don Quixote, by Migeul de Cervantes [Saavedra][#1][1donqxxx.xxx] 996
Jul 1997 Ballads of a Bohemian, by Robert W. Service[RWS#5][blbhmxxx.xxx] 995
Jul 1997 Riders to the Sea, J. M. Synge [rdrsexxx.xxx] 994
Jul 1997 Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas W. Higginson[malbnxxx.xxx] 993
Jul 1997 Theologico-Political Treatise P4, by Spinoza [S#9][4spntxxx.xxx] 992
Jul 1997 Theologico-Political Treatise P3, by Spinoza [S#8][3spntxxx.xxx] 991
Jul 1997 Theologico-Political Treatise P2, by Spinoza [S#7][2spntxxx.xxx] 990
Jul 1997 Theologico-Political Treatise P1, by Spinoza [S#6][1spntxxx.xxx] 989
Jul 1997 The Education of the Child, by Ellen Key [edkidxxx.xxx] 988
Jul 1997 Popular Science Monthly, Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 V.86 [86psmxxx.xxx] 987
Jul 1997 Master and Man, by Leo Tolstoy, Trans. L & A Maude[mramnxxx.xxx] 986
Jul 1997 Father Sergius, by Leo Tolstoy, Trans. L & A Maude[fsrgsxxx.xxx] 985
Jul 1997 Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914, Irwin L. Gordon, Ed. [wwaswxxx.xxx] 984
Jul 1997 Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe [DD#5][ttecexxx.xxx] 983
Jul 1997 The Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear [nnsnsxxx.xxx] 982
Jul 1997 Beowulf, Anonymous, Translated by Gummere [bwulfxxx.xxx] 981
Jul 1997 Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington [Tarkington #4] [aladmxxx.xxx] 980
Jul 1997 Heroes of the Telegraph, by J. Munro [htgrfxxx.xxx] 979
Jul 1997 The Yates Pride, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [ytsprxxx.xxx] 978
Jul 1997 American Notes, by Rudyard Kipling [Kipling #5] [amrntxxx.xxx] 977
Jul 1997 Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [NH #6] [tnglwxxx.xxx] 976
Jul 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 5 [#5] [5spnexxx.xxx] 975
Jul 1997 The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #13] [agentxxx.xxx] 974
Jul 1997 Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates [Howard Pyle #2] [hpprtxxx.xxx] 973
Jul 1997 The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce[Bierce3][dvldcxxx.xxx] 972
Jul 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 4 [#4] [4spnexxx.xxx] 971
Jul 1997 Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories, by Cal Stewart[ncjshxxx.xxx] 970
Jul 1997 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte [B#4] [wldflxxx.xxx] 969
.(Note: the filename wldflxxx.xxx is also used for a totally different
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Jul 1997 Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #32][chuzzxxx.xxx] 968
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MICROSOFT SETTLES FLORIDA CLASS ACTION SUIT
Microsoft has settled a class action lawsuit that claimed that the company
violated a Florida state law against unfair trade practices in the manner
it sold operating system and applications software. Under the terms of the
agreement, Microsoft will provide vouchers worth up to $202 million for
people to buy computers and related products from any manufacturer.
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Microsoft operating system, productivity suite, spreadsheet or
wordprocessing software between Nov. 16, 1995 and Dec. 31, 2002. Half of
the total value of any unclaimed vouchers will be donated to Florida's most
needy public schools and the other half will revert to Microsoft.
(AP 16 Apr 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030416/D7QELFCG0.html
CNN DEFENDS ITSELF AGAINST NEWS-FILTERING CHARGES
In a memo to his staff, CNN top news executive Eason Jordan has denied that
his motive for failing over a 12-year period to report horrors of the
Saddam Hussein regime was to keep the CNN Baghdad bureau open. "A number of
people have told me CNN should have closed its Baghdad bureau, helped
everyone who told me the horror stories flee Iraq, with me thereafter
telling those stories publicly long before now. While that is a noble
thought, doing so was not a viable option." He says that such victims would
not have left their country simply to be able to share their stories with
the world. "So we reported on Iraq's human rights record from outside Iraq
and featured many interviews with Iraqi defectors who described the
regime's brutality in graphic detail. When an Iraqi official, Abbas
al-Janabi, defected after his teeth were yanked out with pliers by Uday
Hussein's henchmen, I worked to ensure the defector gave his first TV
interview to CNN. He did." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 16 Apr 2003)
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0403/16jordan.html
COMPUTER MAKERS TARGET RECYCLING-FRIENDLY DESIGN
Computer makers such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell, which recently have
started getting involved in the recycling of their obsolete machines, are
beginning to change the way they build their products, making it easier to
dispose of them in an environmentally friendly way. "The more they become
familiar with these end-of-life concerns, the more likely it is they close
the loop," says Ted Smith, executive director of Silicon Valley Toxics
Coalition, which is part of a group that advocates all electronics makers
taking responsibility for their products' disposal. The biggest challenge,
says Smith, is redesigning the products so they don't use so many toxic
compounds to begin with. Right now, Japanese companies are ahead of the
game, with many manufacturers already establishing goals and timetables for
removing lead and the bromine currently used in plastics as a
fire-retardant. "They are being driven, as everyone else is, by European
regulations," says Smith. For instance, NEC introduced a PC last year that
has a completely recyclable case and whose circuit boards are entirely
lead-free. Meanwhile, HP has a working prototype of an inkjet printer that
features a biodegradable plastic shell made from corn rather than
petroleum. And Dell has revamped its assembly process to make it easier to
take the machines apart at the end. The average desktop can now be
disassembled in two minutes; more complicated workstations take about twice
that long. (CNet News.com 22 Apr 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1041-997755.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
ASK JEEVES GETS A MAKEOVER
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Jeeves" and a significant improvement on search in general. "Search is
imperfect because we are asking technology to respond to human input, which
is based on the way people think. We believe great search is a combination
of science and art." Although the new search engine relies heavily on
technology, query results will also include suggestions from Ask Jeeves'
editorial team, blending hand-selected content and answers with automated
responses. The company says its new service will make it easier to find
pictures and news headlines, and will include its popular clarification
tools (for refining a search) and automated spell checker feature. "The
battle right now is focused on the user experience," says a Forrester
Research analyst, who notes that while the top five companies are sparring
over the consumer market, the enterprise market is still wide open and is
slated to become an important part of the overall search business.
(E-Commerce Times 21 Apr 2003)
BIGGER ONLINE ADS SQUEEZE WEB CONTENT
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AT&T TRIES TO COLLECT FROM VICTIMS OF PHONE VANDALS
AT&T has been trying to get reimbursement for long-distance phone calls
made by fraudulently hacking into the voicemail systems of the victims and
re-routing international collect calls placed as part of the scheme. The
calls were typically placed when the businesses were closed, and were
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placed calls "outrageous." (New York Times 21 Apr 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/technology/21SCAM.html
CNN GLITCH REVEALS PREMATURE OBITS
A glitch on the CNN.com Web site accidentally made available draft
obituaries written in advance for Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro,
Pope John Paul II and Nelson Mandela. "The design mockups were on a
development site intended for internal review only," says a CNN
spokeswoman. "The development site was temporarily publicly available
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FTC CRACKS DOWN ON PORN SPAMMER
The Federal Trade Commission asked the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, to bar Ballwin (a
suburb of St. Louis) resident Brian Westby from sending e-mail
containing deceptive subject lines, false reply information, and
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complaints in response to a recent bulk e-mail campaign. The suit is
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information that leads recipients to assume an innocent third party
sent the message.
ZDNet, 17 April 2003
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-997329.html
SURVEY FINDS ONE-QUARTER OF AMERICANS ARE OFFLINE
A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that almost
25 percent of Americans do not use the Internet. The number of people
dropping offline equals the number of new users, leading the
researchers to conclude that the 60 percent use of the Internet
measured in October 2001 is likely to persist. About 42 percent of
Americans say they do not use the Internet, but half have either used
it in the past or access it through other family members. Only 17
percent are classified as actual net dropouts, but this is an increase
from the 13 percent identified in a similar 2000 survey.
BBC, 17 April 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2956315.stm
AOL GOES AFTER SPAMMERS
As part of a multilayered approach to fighting spam, America Online
(AOL) has filed five lawsuits in Virginia against several companies and
individuals for violations of the Virginia Computer Crimes Act, the
Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the Washington Commercial
Electronic Mail Act. AOL is seeking at least $10 million in damages
from the defendants for sending approximately one billion unsolicited
e-mails to its customers, more than eight million of whom have filed
complaints with AOL. AOL is also fighting spam by supporting federal
anti-spam legislation, including the recently introduced CAN-SPAM Act,
and by taking technological steps to limit spam. According to an AOL
spokesman, the company has been blocking mail servers associated with
certain residential IP addresses that have been identified as sending spam.
IDG, 15 April 2003
http://www.idg.net/ic_1306559_9677_1-5041.html
MICROSOFT SETTLES FLORIDA SUIT
Microsoft has settled a class-action lawsuit with residents of Florida.
According to the suit, Microsoft violated trade practices in the way it
sold software, and consumers who purchased certain of the company's
products between late 1995 and the end of 2002 will be eligible for
vouchers totaling $202 million. The vouchers will be good for hardware
and software from any manufacturer. Details were not released about
when the vouchers will expire, but the settlement stipulates that half
of unclaimed vouchers will be donated to public schools. One public
school official called that part of the settlement "great news for
schools all across Florida," saying that "the timing is particularly
helpful" in the current budgetary situation.
Nando Times, 15 April 2003
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2) A small feature on Shakespeare
English poet, dramatist, and actor, considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare became the first to appeal and to meet with the full approval of a broad and mixed public embracing almost all levels of society. He possessed a large vocabulary for his day, having used 29,066 different words in his plays. Today the average English-speaking person uses something like 2,000 words in everyday speech.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. He was the eldest son of Mary Arden, the daughter of a local landowner, and her husband John Shakespeare (c. 1530-1601), a glover and wood dealer. In 1568 John Shakespeare was made a mayor of Stratford and a justice of peace. His wool business failed in the 1570s, but the family's position was restored in the 1590s by earnings of William Shakespeare, and in 1596 he was awarded a coat of arms.
Shakespeare is assumed to have been educated at Stratford Grammar School, and he may have spent the years 1580-82 as a teacher for the Roman Catholic Houghton family in Lancashire. At the age of 18, he married a local girl, Anne Hathaway (died 1623), who was eight years older. Their first child, Susannah, was born within six months, and twins Hamnet and Judith were born in 1585. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in 1896, at the age of 11.
According to a legend, he left Stratford for London to avoid a charge of poaching. After 1582 Shakespeare probably joined as an actor one or several companies of players. By 1584 he emerged as a rising playwright in London, and became soon a central figure in London's leading theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's Company, renamed later as the King's Men.
Shakespeare was known in his day as a very rapid writer, his publishers Heminges and Condell reported, "and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." Despite all the praise, some writer's were not enthusiastic about his plays. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) called A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM "the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life."
About 1610 Shakespeare returned to his birthplace and lived as a country gentleman. A number of his plays were published during his lifetime, but none of the original dramatic manuscripts have survived. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616.
On Shakespeare's gravestone are four lines of verse.
Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare
To digg the dust enclosed here!
Blest be ye man that spares thes stones
And curst be he that moues my bones.
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From: Tonya Allen
My favorite plays, in approximate order: The Tempest; Hamlet; Julius Caesar;
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Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra's speech upon the death of Antony):
Noblest of men, woo't die?
Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty?--O, see, my women,
[Antony dies.]
The crown o' the earth doth melt.--My lord!--
O, wither'd is the garland of the war,
The soldier's pole is fallen: young boys and girls
Are level now with men: the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon.
--Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, SCENE XV
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April
23rd Ngaio Marsh, Vladimir Nabokov, Halldor Laxness, William
Shakespeare(189)
24th R M Ballantyne(1), Daniel Defoe(9), Anthony Trollope(39), Carl Spiteller,
Robert Penn Warren
25th Walter de la Mare
26th Vicente Aleixandre, Anne Fried, Morris West, Akseli
Gallen-Kallela
27th Cecil Day-Lewis
28th Johan Borgen, Alistair Maclean, L. Onerva, Harper Lee
29th Pedro Antonio, Correia Garcao
Deaths
1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of Don Quixote, aged 69
1616 William Shakespeare, renowned playwright, and hated by UK
schoolchildren, aged 52
1740 Thomas Tickell, poet
1910 Bjornstjerne Bjornson, aged 77
1915 Rupert Brooke, poet, aged 27
1926 Joseph Pennell
1929 Rudolf W Nilsen, author, aged 28
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[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7692-7699]
Mar 2005 A Strange Story, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 8 [BL#127][b127wxxx.xxx]7699
Mar 2005 A Strange Story, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 7 [BL#126][b126wxxx.xxx]7698
Mar 2005 A Strange Story, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 6 [BL#125][b125wxxx.xxx]7697
Mar 2005 A Strange Story, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 5 [BL#124][b124wxxx.xxx]7696
Mar 2005 A Strange Story, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#123][b123wxxx.xxx]7695
Mar 2005 A Strange Story, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#122][b122wxxx.xxx]7694
Mar 2005 A Strange Story, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#121][b121wxxx.xxx]7693
Mar 2005 A Strange Story, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#120][b120wxxx.xxx]7692
Feb 2005 Images from Theuriet's Woodland Queen, by Widger [dw69wxxh.xxx]7585
Feb 2005 Images from Souvestre's Attic Philosopher, Widger [dw68wxxh.xxx]7584
Feb 2005 Images from Ohnet's Serge Panine, by David Widger [dw67wxxh.xxx]7583
Feb 2005 Images from De Musset's Child of a Century, Widger[dw66wxxh.xxx]7582
Feb 2005 Images from De Massa's Zibelene, by David Widger [dw65wxxh.xxx]7581
[Above five files are Illustrated HTML zipped only in dw6?w10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete [OWH#27][ohp13xxx.xxx]7400
[Full Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]
Jan 2005 Verses from the Oldest Portfolio, Holmes [OWH#26][ohp12xxx.xxx]7399
Jan 2005 Poems from The Teacups, by O. W. Holmes [OWH#25][ohp11xxx.xxx]7398
Jan 2005 Before the Curfew, by O. W. Holmes [OWH#24][ohp10xxx.xxx]7397
Jan 2005 The Iron Gate and Other Poems, by Holmes [OWH#23][ohp09xxx.xxx]7396
Jan 2005 Bunker Hill and Other Poems, by Holmes [OWH#22][ohp08xxx.xxx]7395
[Full Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]
Jan 2005 Songs of Many Seasons (1862-74), by Holmes[OWH#21][ohp07xxx.xxx]7394
Jan 2005 Poems From The Breakfast Table, by Holmes [OWH#20][ohp06xxx.xxx]7393
Jan 2005 Poems Class of '29 (1851-1889), by Holmes [OWH#19][ohp05xxx.xxx]7392
Jan 2005 Songs In Many Keys, by Oliver W. Holmes [OWH#18][ohp04xxx.xxx]7391
Jan 2005 Medical Poems, by Oliver Wendell Holmes [OWH#17][ohp03xxx.xxx]7390
[Full Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]
Jan 2005 Additional Poems (1837-1848), by Holmes [OWH#16][ohp02xxx.xxx]7389
Jan 2005 Earlier Poems (1830-1836), by Holmes [OWH#15][ohp01xxx.xxx]7388
Jan 2005 Carta da Companhia, by St. Joseph Anchieta [8cartxxx.xxx]7384
[Anchieta was the first Brazilian author, d.1587] [Language: Portuguese]
Jan 2005 Life of Charles W. Dilke V1, by Stephen Gwynn [?dlk1xxx.xxx]7382
[Full title: The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1]
Jan 2005 The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope [#41][stdmdxxx.xxx]7381
Jan 2005 Alone, by Norman Douglas [?alonxxx.xxx]7380
[Plain text in 7alon10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8alon10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8alon10h.htm and 8alon10h.zip]
Jan 2005 The Early Life of Mark Rutherford, Mark Rutherford[emrtxxxx.xxx]7379
[Author Note: Mark Rutherford AKA William Hale White]
[Text in emrt10.txt/.zip, XHTML in emrt10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Chantry House, by Charlotte M. Yonge [chhsxxxx.xxx]7378
[Text in chhs10.txt/.zip, XHTML in chhs10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Reincarnation, by Swami Abhedananda [?rincxxx.xxx]7377
[Also posted HTML - 8rinc10h.zip and 8rinc10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Zhong yong zhang ju, by xi zhu [?zyzjxxx.xxx]7376
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Da xue zhang ju, by xi zhu [?dxzjxxx.xxx]7375
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 An American Politician, by F. Marion Crawford [?apolxxx.xxx]7374
[Plain text in 7apol10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8apol10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8apol10h.htm and 8apol10h.zip]
Jan 2005 The Path to Rome, by Hilaire Belloc [?tptrxxx.xxx]7373
[Plain text in 7tptr10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8tptr10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8tptr10h.htm and 8tptr10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Septimius Felton, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [?septxxx.xxx]7372
[Also posted HTML - 8sept10h.zip and 8sept10h.htm]
Jan 2005 A Sicilian Romance, by Ann Radcliffe [siromxxx.xxx]7371
Jan 2005 Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke [trgovxxx.xxx]7370
[HTML version in trgov10h.htm and trgov10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Jim Davis, by John Masefield [#4][jmdvsxxx.xxx]7369
[Also posted HTML - jmdvs10h.zip and jmdvs10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Lifted Masks, by Susan Glaspell [masksxxx.xxx]7368
Jan 2005 Guan zi, by zhong guan [?guanxxx.xxx]7367
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Three Comedies, by Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson [#2][?3comxxx.xxx]7366
Jan 2005 If I May, by A. A. Milne [?imayxxx.xxx]7365
[Also posted HTML - 8imay10h.zip and 8imay10h.htm]
Jan 2005 The Albany Depot, by W. D. Howells [#61][lbdptxxx.xxx]7364
Jan 2005 Master Olof, by August Strindberg [#4][?olofxxx.xxx]7363
[Full title: Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts.]
Jan 2005 Life at High Tide, by Various [htidexxx.xxx]7362
[Also posted HTML - htide10h.zip and htide10h.htm]
Jan 2005 A Brief History of Panics, by Clement Juglar [panicxxx.xxx]7361
Jan 2005 The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead,various[twpwmxxx.xxx]7360
[Transcribed from the COMPLEAT COLLECTION OF STATE TRYALS]
[Author's Full Name: various] [Editor: Don C. Seitz]
[HTML version in twpwm10h.htm and twpwm10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Indian Summer, by William D. Howells [?insmxxx.xxx]7359
[Plain text in 7insm10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8insm10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8insm10h.htm and 8insm10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Brought Home, by Hesba Stretton [bhomexxx.xxx]7358
[HTML version in bhome10h.htm and bhome10h.zip]
Jan 2005 J. Cole, by Emma Gellibrand [?colexxx.xxx]7357
Jan 2005 The Boy Scout Camera Club, by G. Harvey Ralphson [bscamxxx.xxx]7356
Jan 2005 Texas, by Anonymous [texasxxx.xxx]7355
Jan 2005 On Something, by H. Belloc [?somexxx.xxx]7354
Jan 2005 Birds of Town and Village, by W. H. Hudson [brdtvxxx.xxx]7353
[Plain text in brdtv10.txt/.zip; Illustrated HTML zip only in brdtv10h.zip]
Jan 2005 First and Last, by H. Belloc [Tr.: unknown] [?flstxxx.xxx]7352
[Plain text in 7flst10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8flst10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8flst10h.htm and 8flst10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alex. Maclaren [#2][?mattxxx.xxx]7351
[Full author: Alexander Maclaren]
Jan 2005 Prepare and Serve a Meal and Interior Decoration [psmidxxx.xxx]7350
[Author's Full Name: Lillian B. Lansdown]
Jan 2005 Sun zi / Sun zi bing fa, by Sun Wu [?suzixxx.xxx]7349
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 The Jewel City, by Ben Macomber [jcityxxx.xxx]7348
Jan 2005 The Lincoln Story Book, by Henry L. Williams [?lincxxx.xxx]7347
[Also an HTML version in 8linc10h.htm and 8linc10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Among Malay Pirates, by G. A. Henty [piratxxx.xxx]7346
[Also posted HTML - pirat10h.zip and pirat10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Travels in Alaska, by John Muir [#3][trlskxxx.xxx]7345
[Also posted HTML as trlsk10h.zip - zipped only]
Jan 2005 Archibald Malmaison, by Julian Hawthorne [armalxxx.xxx]7344
[Also posted HTML - armal10h.zip and armal10h.htm]
Jan 2005 The Church and the Empire, by D. J. Medley [?ch04xxx.xxx]7343
Jan 2005 Shi ping, by zhong rong [?spngxxx.xxx]7342
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Lie zi, by lie yu kou [?lizixxx.xxx]7341
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Liu tao (B.C 1134-1116), by lv wang [?ltaoxxx.xxx]7340
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, by John Niles Hubbard [redjkxxx.xxx]7339
[Subtitle: Red Jacket and his people, 1750-1830]
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[Subtitle: A Selection of Uncollected Articles, 1884-1932]
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Apr 2003 Into The Darkness, by Lothrop Stoddard [030073xx.xxx]0222A
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Apr 2003 Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe [030072xx.xxx]0221A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300721.txt or .ZIP]
Apr 2003 Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, by Maurice Magnus [030071xx.xxx]0220A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300711.txt or .ZIP]
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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!!!
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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
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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
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[Subtitle: Impressioni di un reduce Garibaldino] [Language: Italian]
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Mar 1999 At the Sign of the Cat & Racket, by Balzac[Hdb#58][ctrktxxx.xxx]1680
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Jun 1998 Bureaucracy, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #14][brcrcxxx.xxx]1343
[HTML in brcrc10h.zip and brcrc10h.htm]
May 1997 To Be Read At Dusk, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#28][rddskxxx.xxx] 924
[HTML version in rddsk10h.htm and rddsk10h.zip]
Mar 1993 Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Traditional [aladxxxx.xxx] 57
[HTML version in alad10h.htm and alad10h.zip]
Mar 1991 The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll[Carroll#3][snarkxxx.xxx] 13
[HTML in snark12h.htm and snark12h.zip]
We have posted an improved 11th edition AND HTML of the following:
Sep 2004 Himalayan Journals (Complete), by J. D. Hooker [hmjncxxx.xxx]6478
[Files in etext04: hmjnc11.txt/.zip; hmjnc11h.zip -- zipped file only]
Oct 1992 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving [sleepxxx.xxx] 41
[HTML posted in sleep11h.htm/.zip]
The following have been re-posted in an improved 11th edition:
Jul 2003 Abbeychurch, by Charlotte M Yonge [abchrxxx.xxx]4267
Feb 2001 The Sorrows of Young Werther, by J.W. Goethe [#31][sywerxxx.xxx]2527
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Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#119][b119wxxx.xxx]7691
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7685-7690]
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 6 [BL#118][b118wxxx.xxx]7690
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 5 [BL#117][b117wxxx.xxx]7689
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#116][b116wxxx.xxx]7688
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#115][b115wxxx.xxx]7687
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#114][b114wxxx.xxx]7686
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#113][b113wxxx.xxx]7685
Feb 2005 Images from Malot's Conscience, by David Widger [dw64wxxh.zip]7580
Feb 2005 Images from Loti's Crysantheme, by David Widger [dw63wxxh.zip]7579
Feb 2005 Images from Halevey's Abbe Constantin, by Widger [dw62wxxh.zip]7578
Feb 2005 Images from France's The Red Lily, by David Widger[dw61wxxh.zip]7577
Feb 2005 Images from Feuillet's, Monsieur de Camors, Widger[dw60wxxh.zip]7576
[The above five files all Illustrated HTML zip only in dw6?w10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Studies in the Life of the Christian,Henry T. Sell[sinlcxxx.xxx]7338
[Subtitle: His Faith and His Service]
Jan 2005 Lau-zi dao de jing, by Lau-zi [?laujxxx.xxx]7337
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Home Lyrics, by Hannah. S.Battersby [?lyrcxxx.xxx]7336
Jan 2005 Harkaway and His Son's Escape, Bracebridge Hemyng [?harkxxx.xxx]7335
[Full title: Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece]
Jan 2005 With Buller in Natal, by G. A. Henty [#14][?bullxxx.xxx]7334
Jan 2005 Sidelights on Relativity, by Albert Einstein [#2][slrtvxxx.xxx]7333
[Also posted: HTML as slrtv10h.zip - zipped only]
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Complete, by Liuxiang [#6][?shouxxx.xxx]7332
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 17-20, by Liuxiang [#5][?sh17xxx.xxx]7331
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 13-16, by Liuxiang [#4][?sh13xxx.xxx]7330
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 9-12, by Liuxiang [#3][?sh09xxx.xxx]7329
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 5-8, by Liuxiang [#2][?sh05xxx.xxx]7328
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 1-4, by Liuxiang [#1][?sh01xxx.xxx]7327
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 The Yeoman Adventurer, by George W. Gough [yeoadxxx.xxx]7326
[HTML version in yeoad10h.htm and yeoad10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Dreams and Days, by George Parsons Lathrop [#4][drmdaxxx.xxx]7325
[HTM version also -- drmda10h.htm and drmda10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Tropic Days, by E. J. Banfield [#3][?tdayxxx.xxx]7324
Jan 2005 Konigs Richard des zweyten, by Shakespeare [#15][?gs15xxx.xxx]7323
[Full title: Leben und Tod Konigs Richard des zweyten (Richard II.)]
[Full author: William Shakespeare] [Language: German]
Jan 2005 Our Hundred Days in Europe, Oliver Wendell Holmes [?hundxxx.xxx]7322
[Also posted HTML - 8hund10h.zip and 8hund10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Nibelungendlied, by trans. by George Henry Needler[niebnxxx.xxx]7321
[Also posted HTML - niebn10h.zip and niebn10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Afghanistan-Anglo-Russian Dispute by Rodenbough [aaardxxx.xxx]7320
[Full title: Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute]
[Author's Full Name: Theo. F. Rodenbough]
[Also posted: Illustrated HTML zip only in aaard10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Good Sense, by Baron D'Holbach [gsensxxx.xxx]7319
Jan 2005 The Bravest of the Brave, by G. A. Henty [brotbxxx.xxx]7318
[Also posted HTML - brotb10h.zip and brotb10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Complete, by Gua Shen [#6][mnxbtxxx.xxx]7317
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 22-26, by Gua Shen [#5][mng22xxx.xxx]7316
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 17-21, by Gua Shen [#4][mng17xxx.xxx]7315
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 11-16, by Gua Shen [#3][mng11xxx.xxx]7314
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 7-10, by Gua Shen [#2][mng07xxx.xxx]7313
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 1-6, by Gua Shen [#1][mng01xxx.xxx]7312
[Full title: Meng Xi Bi Tan (1031-1095 A.D.)]
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 The Leatherwood God, by William Dean Howells [lthwdxxx.xxx]7311
Jan 2005 Mr. Pim Passes By, by A. A. Milne [mrppbxxx.xxx]7310
[Subtitle: A Comedy in Three Acts] [Author AKA: Alan Alexander Milne]
[Also posted HTML version in mrppb10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Business Correspondence, by Anonymous [buscrxxx.xxx]7309
Jan 2005 The History of Mr. Polly, by H. G. Wells [?hmrpxxx.xxx]7308
[Plain text in 7hmrp10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8hmrp10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8hmrp10h.htm and 8hmrp10h.zip]
Jan 2005 The Precipice, by Ivan Goncharov [Tr: Unknown] [?prpcxxx.xxx]7307
[Plain text in 7prpc10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8prpc10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Autobiographical Sketches, by Thomas de Quincy [?tdqaxxx.xxx]7306
Jan 2005 Letters Francis Newman, by Giberne Sieveking [?mlfnxxx.xxx]7305
[Full title: Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman]
Jan 2005 Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, by Ernest Scott [flindxxx.xxx]7304
Jan 2005 Equality, by Edward Bellamy [equalxxx.xxx]7303
[Also posted HTML - equal10h.zip and equal10h.htm]
Jan 2005 My Friends at Brook Farm,by John Van Der Zee Sears[brfrmxxx.xxx]7302
[Also posted HTM- brfrm10h.zip (with illustrations) and brfrm10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Nathaniel Hawthorne, by George E. Woodberry [?nhwtxxx.xxx]7301
[Plain text in in 7nhwt10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8nhwt10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Woman and the Republic, by Helen Kendrick Johnson [?womsxxx.xxx]7300
Jan 2005 Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell [?obitxxx.xxx]7299
Jan 2005 Leben und Tod des Koenigs Johann, Shakespeare[#14][?gs14xxx.xxx]7292
[Language: German] [Translator: Christoph Martin Wieland]
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Apr 2003 Time Regained, by Marcel Proust [030069xx.xxx]0218A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300691.txt or .ZIP]
Nov 2002 Magic for Marigold, by L M Montgomery [030068xx.xxx]0217A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300681.txt or .ZIP]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300681h.html]
(Note: With this posting we now have all of the Montgomery books at PG,
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AOL SUES SPAMMERS
AOL has filed five federal lawsuits against alleged distributors of mass
junk-mail, seeking damages of more than $10 million plus an end to the
messages. The case comes in response to about 8 million individual spam
complaints registered by AOL subscribers, most of whom used a "Spam Report"
feature introduced on the Web site last fall. Most of the defendants are
referred to as "John Doe," meaning that AOL could not determine their true
identities, but the suits also name Michael Levesque of Issaquah, Wash.,
and George A. Moore Jr. of Linthicum, Md., both of whom had listed false
phone numbers in their domain name registrations. By filing the lawsuits,
AOL gains additional authority to subpoena Internet service providers and
others trying to track down the other spammers. Meanwhile, AOL has also
begun targeting spammers who use residential broadband services such as
Comcast and RoadRunner, which is owned by AOL Time Warner. (AP 15 Apr 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030415/D7QDV6A00.html
GOOGLE'S JUGGLING ACT
Google's aggressive move into revenue-generating ventures over the past two
years is changing the way it presents information and could tarnish its
reputation as one of the more untainted search engines, say critics. In
addition to devising new schemes for advertisers, Google has gotten its
foot in the door in the corporate market, peddling a combined hardware and
software approach to corporate searching. And while that's a fairly limited
market, Google could use its corporate search product as a launch pad into
the wider realms of information retrieval and knowledge management, says
Forrester analyst Laura Ramos, where there is an increasingly significant
demand by businesses for search tools that work across different
applications, such as Web content management, customer support, e-mail and
databases. "I think (corporate search is) potentially lucrative because of
Google's brand and reputation." But critics are grumbling that Google could
begin to lose its credibility if too much of its business becomes ad-driven
rather than search-related and say they fear that Google could use its
dominant position to manipulate Web searchers without their knowledge.
"Google has discovered there's a ton of money to be made, and they're going
for the gold. The only purpose for Google to crawl the rest of the
(noncommercial) Web is to legitimize themselves as a search engine," says
David Brandt, president of Public Information Research, which publishes
theGoogle-watch.org Web site. (E-Commerce Times 15 Apr 2003)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/21267.html
EXPEDIA COMMISSION LOWERED IN ITS NEW DEAL WITH HILTON HOTELS
The Hilton Hotel chain has struck what it is calling "the best deal in the
industry" by making a deal with online travel site Expedia that will reduce
Expedia commissions by about one-third. The online travel business is
thriving, and already accounts for 10% of all travel bookings, a figure
expected to increase to 20% in 2005. In contrast, the travel industry is
stagnant, and burdened by the fees for online bookings -- fees that may
account for about 35% of what customers pay for a room. Online travel
company executive Eric Christenson notes, "That is a hell of a lot of money
for an electronic reservation." As a result, the travel industry is
pressuring online travel sites to reduce their service charges.
(Reuters/USA Today 15 Apr 2003)
APPLE TO LAUNCH ITS OWN MUSIC SERVICE
Apple Computer is launching its own music service in the next few weeks,
offering users songs from all five major record labels. The new music
service will be integrated with Apple's iTunes music software, which is
used to organize and play MP3 files on Macs. Rather than following the
subscription-based model adopted by the record-label-backed pressplay and
MusicNet services and others, Apple plans to sell its songs individually
for about 99 cents a track. And while the service is rumored to be more
consumer-friendly than many of the other legitimate online music services,
it's available only to Mac users -- a group that comprises about 5% of the
global market. (Wall Street Journal 14 Apr 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105027555531211100.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
RISE OF LINUX IS CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE
The growing appeal of Linux as an alternative to rival operating systems
such as Microsoft's Windows and Sun Microsystems' Solaris is changing the
dynamics of the computer software business. Although currently relegated to
"back-office" operations that handle e-mail, Web pages, file-sharing and
printing, Linux is primed to begin making inroads into the higher echelons
of business computing, such as telecom billing and airline reservation
systems. A recent Garner report says that "businesses are coming to regard
Linux as a worthy alternative to Unix and Windows." That trend has proven a
boon for IBM, which embraced Linux in 1999 and now offers it across its
entire product range, from lowly PCs to mighty mainframes. Also benefiting
are Hewlett-Packard and Dell, both of which have been successful selling
Linux servers. But the blossoming of Linux could prove toxic to Sun, which
has seen some of its high-end Solaris server customers migrate to
inexpensive Linux-run machines. Sun has compensated by offering its own
cheap boxes running Linux alongside its more powerful Solaris-based ones,
but many in the industry predict the dual strategy is "doomed." (The
Economist 10 Apr 2003)
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1699434
TIVO REACHES OUT TO THE INTERNET
TiVo Series2 recorders can now be given a software update to allow the
device to record not only TV programs but also Internet-downloadable music,
video, and graphics files. A software update will cost $99, and will also
allow a viewer with multiple Series2 TiVos to record on one machine while
watching on another after transferring the recording over the network. (USA
Today 11 Apr 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/2003-04-11-tivo_x.htm
NEWS FILTERS AT CNN: EXEC FELT 'AWFUL' ABOUT SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH
In a confessional mood, top CNN news executive Eason Jordan has admitted in
a New York Times op/ed piece that over a dozen-year period CNN deliberately
withheld news that would have exposed to the world the horrors of the
Saddam Hussein regime. His examples of those horrors include the
electroshock torture of a CNN cameraman and the beatings and execution of a
31-year-old woman charged with talking to a CNN reporter. ("They beat her
daily for two months, forcing her father to watch. In January 1991, on the
eve of the American-led offensive, they smashed her skull and tore her body
apart limb by limb. A plastic bag containing her body parts was left on the
doorstep of her family's home.") During the course of 13 trips he made to
Baghdad to ensure that CNN's bureau there could remain open, Jordan "came
to know several Iraqi officials well enough that they confided in me that
Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed." But CNN chose not to
share any of this information with its U.S. or worldwide audiences. Now
Jordan says: "I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me. Now
that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many
more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last,
these stories can be told freely." (New York Times 11 Apr 2003)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11JORD.html
[40% of all email is spam!]
[Would email run nearly twice as fast without spam?]
SENATORS INTRODUCE ANTI-SPAM BILL
Senators Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) have introduced
legislation that seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by requiring Internet
marketers to provide legitimate return addresses on their e-mail and to
honor consumers' requests to be taken off e-mail distribution lists. "This
bill will help to keep legitimate Internet traffic and e-commerce flowing
by going after those unscrupulous individuals who use e-mail in annoying
and misleading ways," said Wyden in a statement. The bill would not allow
individuals to sue spammers directly, but would require that state
attorneys general sue on their behalf. The Federal Trade Commission could
also fine violators, and ISPs could block spammers from their networks. The
average U.S. Internet user received more than 2,200 spam messages last
year, according to Jupiter Research, and the UK government said last month
that spam now accounts for 40% of global e-mail traffic. A similar bill
sponsored by Burns and Wyden cleared the Commerce Committee last year, but
was not taken up for a vote in the Senate. "Now it's time to move forward.
This legislation has been on hold for too long," says Burns.
(Reuters 10 Apr 2003) http://
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=581&ncid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20030410
[More Google Faux Pas News]
GOOGLE SEEKS TO DIFFERENTIATE PR, NEWS
Google is changing the way its Google News pages handle press releases,
after some releases appeared in its news listings without being tagged as
such. The search engine company started including press releases two months
ago. A company spokesman said that the listing of unmarked press releases
was "not intentional" and that Google was working to ensure that all press
releases were marked. "Google includes press releases in Google News
because we believe they are an additional resource that offers our users a
valuable perspective on the genesis of a story," he said. (AP 10 Apr 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030410/D7QARTG02.html
[More Apple Music News]
APPLE -- THE COMPUTER AND RECORD COMPANY
Apple has been holding secret talks with Vivendi Universal exploring the
possibility of Apple's acquisition, for about $6 billion, of Vivendi's
Universal Music Group, which is the largest record company in the world.
Although no Apple or Vivendi managers have commented on the talks, it is
known that the investment bank Morgan Stanley is now conducting due
diligence to set the stage for the purchase. Apple has been working to
develop a new service that would make downloading and purchasing music
from the Internet as easy as buying a book from Amazon.com.
(Los Angeles Times/San Jose Mercury News 11 Apr 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5611142.htm
PREVENTING TINY (OR LARGE) UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Experts have told the House Science Committee that a portion of the
proposed $2.1 billion government funding for nanotechnology research should
be earmarked for research on the societal and ethical implications of such
research. Ray Kurzweil, a leader in artificial intelligence research, said
that because the technology is so tiny that it can "get in our tissues, our
bloodstream, our brains," it poses "a new type of safety concern" since it
could be used by bioterrorists. (Gannett/USA Today 10 Apr 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-10-nanotech_x.htm
WIRELESS CARRIERS PROPOSE NEW 'NUMBER PORTABILITY' PLAN
For years, U.S. wireless operators have opposed efforts to force them to
allow customers to keep their cell phone number when they switch to another
carrier. But the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association is now
pushing a new plan -- one that would comply with Federal Communications
Commission rules on cell phone number portability, but would also require
land-line carriers to allow customers to switch their traditional phone
numbers to cell phones. The new proposal, if adopted, could accelerate the
trend of people dropping their land-line service in favor of going
completely wireless. Wireless operators have fought number portability over
the years because they fear a dramatic increase in "churn," as they
eliminate one inhibition to switching carriers. That could increase costs
and likely would spark another round of price wars. "It's basically the
nightmare before Christmas," says Roger Entner, an analyst with Yankee
Group, who predicts that escalating churn following the Nov. 24 deadline
set by the FCC could cost the industry $3 billion in the fourth quarter
this year and the first quarter next year in increased commissions, phone
subsidies and other sales-related expenditures. By including traditional
phone providers in the number portability plan, wireless carriers hope to
compensate for loss of cell phone customers with a new influx of former
land-line subscribers. "The opportunity to take the wire-line phone and
port it to wireless is an opportunity that the wireless industry wants to
have happen," says Michael Altschul, general counsel to the CTIA. FCC
chairman Michael Powell plans to rule on the CTIA proposal before the Nov.
24 deadline. (Wall Street Journal 10 Apr 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB104993000328997700.djm,00.html
INTERNET FRAUD COMPLAINTS TRIPLE
Complaints about fraudulent schemes perpetrated over the Internet tripled
in 2002 from the previous year, with the most common grievance being
auction fraud, followed by non-delivery of promised merchandise, credit
card fraud and fake investments. According to a report from the Internet
Fraud Complaint Center, which is run by the FBI and the National White
Collar Crime Center, the 48,252 complaints referred for prosecution in 2002
represent only a fraction of the crimes authorities believe are occurring.
The center also received almost 37,000 other complaints that did not
constitute fraud, but involved such things as spam, illegal child
pornography and computer intrusions. The report says 80% of known fraud
perpetrators and about 71% of complainants are male. Fraud complaints
originated in all parts of the country, with a third coming from
California, Florida, Texas and New York. One of the most persistent scams
described in the report is the infamous "Nigerian letter," which urges
victims to pay an upfront fee (characterized as a bribe to the government)
in order to receive non-existent funds from the "Government of Nigeria."
There were 16,000 complaints related to that scam in 2002, up from 2,600 in
2001. (AP 9 Apr 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030409/D7QA6UFO0.html
[Copyrights Ruled More Important Than Constitutional Free Speech]
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JUDGE DISMISSES CHALLENGE TO DIGITAL COPYRIGHT ACT
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns has dismissed a lawsuit by the American
Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a Harvard student who sought proprietary
information from software company N2H2 so that he could reverse-engineer
its software filtering product. The student and the ACLU had argued that
software filters violate constitutional free speech protections because
such filters unintentionally block far more than just pornography, and
thereby deny people access to information to which they have a right. But
Judge Stearns ruled that "there is no plausible protected constitutional
interest that Edelman can assert that outweighs N2H2's right to protect its
copyrighted material from an invasive and destructive trespass."
(AP/USA Today 9 Apr 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-09-filter-suit_x.htm
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GERMANY EXPANDS ACADEMIC USE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
The German Parliament has passed a law allowing academics to distribute
copyrighted works digitally to students and other academics. The
copyright exemptions allowed by the new law cover "small parts" of
copyrighted works distributed to small groups of people, such as the
students in a class. The law also stipulates that access must be
controlled by passwords or a similar mechanism, and Parliament must
re-approve the law in 2006 for it to remain in place. Academics cheered
the new legislation, saying it explicitly gives them the same freedom
with electronic materials that they already have with printed ones.
Publishers and some authors of copyrighted material strongly opposed
the law, saying it would kill the academic publishing industry. Many
academics dismissed that argument, saying publishers must work with
academic interests to "develop ... new ways to organize and distribute
digital material."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 April 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003041407n.htm
MICHIGAN TECH RESPONDS TO RIAA LAWSUITS
The president of Michigan Technological University (MTU) responded
angrily to four lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) against students--including one at MTU--for illegal file
swapping. In a letter to the RIAA, Curtis Tompkins accused the
association of acting in bad faith in pursuing prosecution against
students. Despite his school's cooperation with the RIAA in stopping
illegal peer-to-peer networks, according to Tompkins, the RIAA has not
shown reciprocity in working with the university. Tompkins said the
RIAA had clearly known for some time about the MTU student named in the
suit but that the RIAA never contacted MTU. Had the RIAA done that, he
said, "we would have shut off the student and not allowed the problem
to grow to the size and scope that it is today."
Internet News, 9 April 2003
http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/2179281
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SUES AOL OVER INVESTMENT LOSSES
The University of California has filed suit against AOL Time Warner,
alleging that the company misrepresented its financial situation,
thereby costing the university $450 million. During the past year, AOL
has restated its earnings, eliminating about $600 million from
previously reported revenues. Those revelations caused the company's
stock to plummet, resulting in the losses. Amalgamated Bank, the
university's co-plaintiff in the case, said that because of the
alleged misrepresentation and ensuing drop in stock price, its AOL
stock lost almost $56 million. The plaintiffs argued that AOL's new
earnings statements may be "too conservative" and that AOL may have
overstated earnings by close to $1 billion. The suit also charges that
AOL executives knew about the restatements and sold hundreds of
millions of dollars in stock before the announcements were made.
Wall Street Journal, 14 April 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105032911672076100,00.html
[WHERE'S THE ART???!!! Apparently there isn't any, just policy/politics]
PRINCETON LAUNCHES ARTS ARCHIVE
Princeton University has unveiled what it calls "the world's first
fully interactive, Web-accessible digital archive of policy-relevant
data on culture and the arts." Visitors to the Cultural Policy and the
Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA), a project of the Princeton
University Library and the university's Center for Arts and Cultural
Policy Studies, can access both current and past research findings,
such as public opinion, city-specific data, and statistics dealing with
the arts. Resources available are currently broken down into four categories:
artists, audiences, organizations, and support for the arts.
Information Today, 14 April 2003
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd030414.shtml
["The list of Web sites their filters block" is copyrighted/copyrightable?!]
["You will be allowed to speak, they will not be allowed to listen."
At the execution of Sir Thomas More by King Henry VIII, about royal divorces.]
JUDGE DISMISSES ANTI-DMCA SUIT
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Harvard University
law school student to test the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Benjamin Edelman asked the court to prevent Internet-filtering company
N2H2 from suing him if he circumvented the company's encryption to see
the list of Web sites their filters block. The DMCA forbids such
circumvention, and opponents of the law have argued that it impedes
research into encryption and other technologies. Federal Judge Richard
G. Stearns disagreed that Edelman's research interests outweigh
N2H2's right to protect its copyrighted property. The judge said, "The
court has no inkling of the exact dimension of the research that
Edelman proposes to undertake and doubts that Edelman does either."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 April 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003041001t.htm
FORMER OPPONENTS AGREE TO E-PUBLISHING DEAL
Two years ago Random House and RosettaBooks were involved in a legal
battle over the right to publish books electronically. RosettaBooks had
made deals with Random House authors, arguing that rights to digital
media were not covered by the original contracts with Random House.
Random House disagreed and sued RosettaBooks. Although the key point of
that suit--what happens when e-rights are not specified--was left
unresolved by a settlement the two companies reached, they have entered
into an agreement for RosettaBooks to publish 51 e-books of Random
House authors, including Margaret Atwood and John Updike. The list does
not include books from Random House's top-selling authors, such as
John Grisham or Anne Rice, but, according to Arthur Klebanoff, CEO of
RosettaBooks, "We're bringing some terrific books and terrific authors
into the electronic format." A spokesman for Random House called the
agreement with RosettaBooks "mutually advantageous," saying Random
House is focusing on audio and print books while RosettaBooks is
focusing on e-books.
Associated Press, 9 April 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/847467p-5948492c.html
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36 in 1999 [is our official schedule, we are now about 8 months ahead,
but, as luck would have it, on the day the muse struck to
write this article, I learned that our funding is again lost.]
40 in 2000 [I was never personally comfortable doing over 30 per month,
50 in 2001 so this is when I started planning all the delegating of today]
100 in 2001 [Starting on our 30th Anniversay, and we thought we would NEVER
be able to do this many, so it would bring us back on schedule,
but so far, only three months later, we have. . .so who knows.]
[Note added in January, 2002, we managed to do 1240 in 2001, so
we did somehow manage to average 100 per month--who knows how.]
200 in 2002 We started 2002 with an incredible 200 eBooks per month,
and managed to increase that to 203 by the end of the year.
300 in 2003 That's what we need, and are currently averaging about 268.
THAT'S WHY WE NEED ***YOU***!!!
Here are some highlights:
#### Date Title
1 1971 The U.S. Declaration of Independence [July 4, 1971]
10 1990 The King James Bible
100 1994 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [December 10, 1993]
1000 1997 Dante's Divine Comedy, In Italian[September 1, 1997]
2000 1999 Don Quixote, In Spanish [April 23, 1999]
3000 2000 A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs V3 by Proust, In French
4000 2001 The Complete Works of "The French Immortals", In English
5000 2002 The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, In English [April 10, 2002]
6000 2002 Our First Polish eBook "Ironia Pozorow" [September, 2002]
7000 2003 January 31, and 7500 on March 29!
[Now that we can officially say we have "thousands" of these
eBooks online, we should prepare to create an institution of
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we released Project Gutenberg eBook #7500.
Next year, as the population grows, this percentage should
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leveling out just before we reach 10 billion: this figure
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lot with the other eBook makers. Creating a liaison between
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There are currently over 20,000 eBooks listed in the indices
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We should undoubtedly also try the other talk shows, and "magazine"
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have had no luck "generating" publicity. . .which seems to be easy,
for those who have the knack. . .it's just not MY knack. . .help!!!
We really need to find some Public Relations help!!!
2. However, running this great group of volunteers to generate the
more than 2,500 new eBooks over the recently past eleven months has
been something that is a knack I have. . .and it hasn't cost a very
large amount of money to do this: otherwise you wouldn't know that
we exist. . .BUT running a group of 10,000 volunteers to create the
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be able to find someone else to replace me, as it did not cost real
money or take real time to run. . .but for the last 10 years it has
taken just about all the time I have, including what I would need a
lot more of to have a personal life. . .and I would LIKE to have an
expectation that Project Gutenberg would survive at least 10 years,
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Contents
Overview
0.
eBooks in Various Languages
1.
Copyright
2.
Scanning and Typing
3.
Proofreading
4.
FTP and WWW Sites
5.
Donations
6.
Raiders of the Lost Archives
7.
Special Requests
8.
Programming
9.
New eBooks Needing Proofreading
Followed By More Detailed Information On Most Of These Subjects
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0.
eBooks in Various Languages
As you may be aware, this last year we have greatly expanded our
output of eBooks in languages other than English, including:
1. English
2. Latin
3. French
4. Italian
5. German
6. Spanish
7. Chinese
8. Japanese
9. Swedish
10. Danish
11. DNA/ATGC
12. Welsh
13. Portuguese
14. Old Dutch [pre 1949]
15. Bulgarian
16. Dutch/Flemish
17. Greek
18. Hebrew
19. Polish
20. Finnish
21. Old French*
22 Russian*
23. Romanian*
24. Hawaiian*
[Those with an * are still in need of more help]
eBook Languages
alphabetically:
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4. DNA/ATGC
5. Dutch
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11. Greek
12. Hebrew
13. Italian
14. Japanese
15. Latin
16. Polish
17. Portugese
18. Spanish
19. Swedish
20. Welsh
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The Distributed Proofreaders work in a variety of languages.
Also, we have just purchased and installed TWO new super-scanners
for the Distributed Proofreaders (http://charlz.dns2go.com/gutenberg)
so we can scan more books. We will also help with copyright research.
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We will help you do the copyright research for your chosen books,
the laws are changing, perhaps even in the next few weeks, so I am
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If you would like to help us make eBooks available in the future,
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3.
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files are only available on one server that we know of. If you can
help us get our books into South America, Africa, and further, this
would be a great help. We have something restarted in New Zealand,
with extensions into Australia, but the load this server can handle
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Anything you can do in these states would be greatly appreciated,
since we are at this juncture, helping us get more Public Relations
coverage of our just released 7,500th eBook.
As I said, anything would be greatly appreciated. This SHOULD BE a
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project has been written up probably about 300 times, that they are
going to write us up when THEY have a reason to rather than when WE
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If you have any "ins" in the press or with the corporate world, this
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Raiders of the Lost Archives
As you may be aware from several events of a month ago, and earlier,
there is a downside to having eBook archives in limited distribution
modalities, simply because if one site, or one person, or even whole
countries, change their minds about what they are going to archive--
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A good example was the loss of The Oxford Book of English Verse from
Project Bartleby. We have taken great pains to get this book, which
is undoubtedly important, back on the Net. If you want to see which
sites have lost this file, just do a Yahoo search for the book, then
count the vast number of sites that have blank entries for the book,
once it was deleted from a multiplicity of links; this is an example
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We need volunteers who will search the world for every possible book
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become more and more apparent why this is a good policy as copyright
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going to be some time in the next calendar year that a United States
law killing off another 20 years of public domain in the US will get
passed, to join the countries listed above, in eliminating a million
books from potentially being posted as eBooks, even though 99% are a
dead issue, out of print for decades. . . .
[It did pass. October 27, 1998 - the U.S. went from life plus 50 to
life plus 70 for works created after 1/1/78, and from 75 to 95 years
for many works published before 1978. . .but this doesn't change the
items that had already entered the public domain in the US, unlike a
reversion from public domain status to copyright status in countries
in the European Union and other locales. Thus, the US copyright for
most works still cuts in at 1923. . .and this is scheduled to stay a
cutoff date until around 2020.]
So the rule of thumb we use most is that anything pre-1923 is ok.
7.
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more cleanup before it was sent to us. What we need is proofers with
patience to read through an eBook and take out stray letters, clean up the
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Copyright Extension Is Also Happening in the United States
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for our first release, which is usually raised to 99.95% before the
vast majority of people ever see them, and this standard has been a
standard that has been adopted by most eBook providers, including a
new effort toward Etext by the Library of Congress and the national
libraries of Great Britain and other countries.
What we hope you realize is that any serious effort to get an eBook
to 100% accuracy should take MORE effort than to create an entirely
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While many, even most, of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are accurate
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.02% perhaps, would have anywhere near the value of the preparation
of an entirely new eBook with the same amount of effort.
Nevertheless, even the most famous universities of the world have a
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of what are the great books of human history.
More on:
Proofreading: We could also use people who know how to use DIFF or
Word's "compare" that point out differences between two files, even
programmers that might only be able to search our files for matched
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Our proofreading is a never-ending story. . .we run spell-checkers,
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We are willing to adjust the bandwidth on various sites by adjusting
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