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The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens 37581
[Subtitle: A Fairy Tale of Home]
[Illustrators: Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle,
Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer]
Catastrophe and Social Change, by Samuel Henry Prince 37580
[Subtitle: Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster]
Aufsätze, by Robert Walser 37579
[Illustrator: Karl Walser]
[Language: German]
The Later Life, by Louis Couperus 37578
[Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos]
L'Illustration, No. 3651, 15 Février 1913, by Various 37577
[Language: French]
The Golden Hope, by Robert H. Fuller 37576
[Subtitle: A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893, 37575
by Various
[Editor: Sir Francis Burnand]
Great Inventions and Discoveries, by Willis Duff Piercy 37574
Pencil Sketches, by Eliza Leslie 37573
[Subtitle: or, Outlines of Character and Manners]
The Way of Decision, by M. C. Pease 37572
Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession 37571
of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth,
Volume II (of 2), by Lady Anne Hamilton
[Subtitle: Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full
Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte]
Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession 37570
of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth,
Volume I (of 2), by Lady Anne Hamilton
[Subtitle: Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full
Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte]
La Maison de l'Ogre, by Alphonse Karr 37569
[Language: French]
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851, by Various 37568
[Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary
Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.]
[Editor: George Bell]
Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie, II, by Hector Berlioz 37567
[Language: French]
Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene 37566
ornata ornata Agassiz, by John M. Legler
Psychical Miscellanea, by J. Arthur Hill 37565
[Subtitle: Being Papers on Psychical Research,
Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc.]
Christ Going Up to Heaven, by Unknown 37564
[Subtitle: No. 47]
A Man of Honor, by George Cary Eggleston 37563
Wrestling and Wrestlers:, by Jacob Robinson and Sidney Gilpin 37562
[Subtitle: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern
Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting]
"That's me all over, Mable", by Edward Streeter 37561
[Illustrator: G. William Breck]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893, by Various 37560
[Editor: Sir Francis Burnand]
Fern Vale (Volume 3), by Colin Munro 37559
[Subtitle: or the Queensland Squatter]
A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman 37558
Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2), by A. H. Smith
37557 not ready
37556 not ready
L'Illustration, No. 3650, 8 Février 1913, by Various 37555
[Language: French]
The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp, by Laura Lee Hope 37554
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2, 1893, 37553
by Various
[Editor: Sir Francis Burnand]
The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, 37552
James, and Dewey, by Delton Loring Geyer
Ann Boyd, by Will N. Harben 37551
Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, 37550
by J. Newton Terrill
The Beauty, by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow 37549
[Illustrator: Will Grefe]
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851, by Various 37548
[Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men,
Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.]
[Editor: George Bell]
The Fairies and the Christmas Child, by Lilian Gask 37547
[Illustrator: Willy Pogány]
The Female Wits, by Anonymous 37546
[Editor: Lucyle Hook]
"Persons Unknown", by Virginia Tracy 37545
[Illustrator: Henry Raleigh]
Cupid in Africa, by P. C. Wren 37544
Watt's Songs Against Faults, by Anonymous 37543
Watt's Songs Against Evil, by Anonymous 37542
Sinivuokkoja Suomen salomailta, by Nestor Tanner 37541
[Language: Finnish]
The Hearth-Stone, by Samuel Osgood 37540
[Subtitle: Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities]
37539 not ready
Southern War Songs, by Various 37538
[Subtitle: Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental]
San Francisco in Ruins, by Various 37537
[Editor: A. M. Allison]
[Illustrator: J. D. Givens]
The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia, 37536
by Fydor Dostoyevsky
[Subtitle: with and introduction by Julius Bramont]
History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington 37535
National Monument Society, by Frederick Loviad Harvey
A travers chants, by Hector Berlioz 37534
[Language: French]
Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1-2, by Elizabeth Bonhote 37533
The Scottish Fairy Book, by Elizabeth W. Grierson 37532
[Illustrator: Morris Meredith Williams]
Theology and the Social Consciousness, by Henry Churchill King 37531
[Subtitle: A Study of the Relations of the Social
Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.)]
The Story of an Ostrich, by Judd Isaacs 37530
[Subtitle: An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme.]
[Illustrator: Edmund Nolcini]
The Adventures of Puss in Boots, by Anonymous 37529
[Subtitle: Marks's Edition]
Quick Action, by Robert W. Chambers 37528
[Illustrator: Edmund Frederick]
Sermons, by J. B. Lightfoot 37527
L'Illustration, No. 3649, 1 F?vrier 1913, by Various 37526
[Language: French]
Dvojník. Néticka Nezvánova a Malinký Hrdina, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 37525
[Language: Czech]
La dette de jeux, by Paul Lacroix 37524
[Language: French]
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7, by Various 37523
[Subtitle: "Geoponici" to "Germany"]
Kort verhaal van eene aanmerkelijke luchtreis en nieuwe 37522
Planeetontdekking, by Willem Bilderdijk
[Language: Dutch]
The Broken Bough, by Anonymous 37521
[Subtitle: No. 435, IV. Series]
Surnames as a Science, by Robert Ferguson 37520
Curiousities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated 37519
Vol.1, by Thomas Dugdale
[Subtitle: Historical, Entertaining & Commercial;
Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set.]
The Butterflys' Ball, by Anonymous 37518
[Subtitle: Mother's Series]
The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus, by Elkanah Settle 37517
Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851, by Various 37516
[Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary
Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.]
[Editor: George Bell]
In a Mysterious Way, by Anne Warner 37515
[Illustrator: J. V. McFall]
Jemima Placid, by Mary Ann Kilner 37514
[Subtitle: or, The Advantage of Good-Nature]
Spencer's Philosophy of Science, by C. Lloyd Morgan 37513
[Subtitle: The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered
at the Museum 7 November, 1913]
A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family 37512
Colubridae, from Middle America), by John Willman
The Child's Story-Book, by Anonymous 37511
[Subtitle: Second Series--No. 4]
By Trench and Trail in Song and Story, by Angus MacKay 37510
[Author a.k.a. Oscar Dhu]
[Illustrator: William R. McKay]
The Cassowary, by Stanley Waterloo 37509
[Subtitle: What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains]
The Cochineal, by Anonymous 37508
The Spaniards in Florida, by George R. Fairbanks 37507
[Subtitle: Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564,
and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565]
L'Illustration, No. 3648, 25 Janvier 1913, by Various 37506
[Language: French]
A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace 37505
John, D. of Marlborogh, by Daniel Defoe
IBM System 360 RPG Debugging Template and Keypunch Card, by Anonymous 37504
Gammer Gurton's Needle, by Mr. S. Mr. of Art 37503
Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II, 37502
by W. P. Haskett Smith and H. C. Hart
[Subtitle: Wales and Ireland]
[Illustrator: Ellis Carr]
In Answer to Prayer, by W. Boyd Carpenter, Theodore L. Cuyler, 37501
John Watson, Knox Little and William Quarrier
[Subtitle: The Touch of the Unseen]
Het Auteursrecht, by Henri Louis de Beaufort 37500
[Subtitle: in het Nederlandsche en internationale recht]
[Language: Dutch]
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, by Henry Foljambe Hall 37499
Stories of Old Kentucky, by Martha Grassham Purcell 37498
The Tour, by Louis Couperus 37497
[Subtitle: A Story of Ancient Egypt]
[Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos]
Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851, by Various 37496
[Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary
Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.]
[Editor: George Bell]
Text books of art education, v. 2 of 7, by Hugo B. Froehlich 37495
[Subtitle: Book II, Second Year]
The Gospel According To Peter, by Walter R. Cassels 37494
Fast Nine, by Alan Douglas 37493
[Subtitle: or, A Challenge from Fairfield]
The Chalice Of Courage, by Cyrus Townsend Brady 37492
[Subtitle: A Romance of Colorado]
[Illustrators: Harrison Fisher and J. N. Marchand]
Les bijoux indiscrets, by Denis Diderot 37491
[Language: French]
The Gray Phantom's Return, by Herman Landon 37490
An Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible Fire of London, 37489
Sept. 2nd 1666, by Gideon Harvey
Asgard Stories, by Mabel H. Cummings and Mary H. Foster 37488
[Subtitle: Tales from Norse Mythology]
Boy Scouts in the Northwest, by George Harvey Ralphson 37487
[Subtitle: Fighting Forest Fires]
The Outdoor Chums on the Lake, by Quincy Allen 37486
[Subtitle: Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island]
Boy Scouts in Glacier Park, by Walter Prichard Eaton 37485
[Subtitle: The Adventures of Two Young Easterners
in the Heart of the High Rockies]
[Illustrator: Fred H. Kiser]
The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904, by Various 37484
Sequoia [California] National Park, 37483
by the United States Department of the Interior
The Postmaster, by Joseph C. Lincoln 37482
The Tangled Skein, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy 37481
Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life, by Charles King 37480
The Debit Account, by Oliver Onions 37479
[Author a.k.a. George Oliver]
The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine, by Heinrich Heine 37478
Taking Chances, by Clarence L. Cullen 37477
Jessie Graham, by Mary Jane Holmes 37476
Turkey, by Julius R. Van Millingen 37475
[Subtitle: Peeps at Many Lands]
[Illustrator: Warwick Goble]
Ystäväni kertomus, by Mathilda Roos 37474
L'Illustration, No. 3647, 18 Janvier 1913, by Various 37473
Zanzibar Tales, by Various 37472
[Subtitle: Told by natives of the East Coast of Africa]
[Illustrator: Walter Bobbett]
[Translator: George W. Bateman]
Mind Amongst the Spindles, by Various 37471
[Editor: Charles Knight]
The Great War in England in 1897, by William Le Queux 37470
[Illustrator: Cyril Field]
Some Imagist Poets, 1916, by Richard Aldington, 37469
Hilda Doolittle, John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell,
D. H. Lawrence and F. S. Flint
[Subtitle: An Annual Anthology]
Pastels, by Paul Bourget 37468
[Subtitle: dix portraits de femmes]
[Language: French]
Daisy Thornton, by Mary J. Holmes 37467
Lost in the Cañon, by Alfred R. Calhoun 37466
[Subtitle: The Story of Sam Willett's Adventures
on the Great Colorado of the West]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887, by Various 37465
Bluebeard, by Clifton Johnson 37464
[Illustrator: Harry L. Smith]
The Builders, by Ellen Glasgow 37463
Boating, by W. B. Woodgate 37462
[Illustrator: Frank Dadd]
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6, by Various 37461
[Subtitle: "Geodesy" to "Geometry"]
Blackie & Sons Catalogue - 1891, by Various 37460
[Subtitle: Books for Young People]
Polly in New York, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37459
[Illustrator: H. S. Barbour]
Natalie: A Garden Scout, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37458
Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery, 37457
By Clifton Armstrong Howes
Cycling and Shooting Knickerbocker Stockings, by H. P. Ryder 37456
[Subtitle: How to Knit Them With Plain and Fancy Turnover Tops]
The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy, by Mabel Henriette Spielmann 37455
[Illustrators: Arthur Rackham, Hugh Thomson,
Bernard Partridge, and Lewis Baumer]
The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson, by Laura Dent Crane 37454
[Subtitle: Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow]
The Barber of Paris, by Charles Paul de Kock 37453
[Translator: Edith May Norris]
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I, 37452
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rough-Hewn, by Dorothy Canfield 37451
Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie 37450
Vole (Microtus ochrogaster), by Henry S. Fitch
Puppets at Large, by F. Anstey 37449
[Subtitle: Scenes and Subjects from Mr. Punch's Show]
[Illustrator: J. Bernard Partridge]
Comet's Burial, by Raymond Zinke Gallun 37448
Hand-Craft, by John D. Sutcliffe 37447
[Subtitle: The Most Reliable Basis of Technical
Education in Schools and Classes]
King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; 37446
Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Danaë, by Gordon Bottomley
The Lady and Her Horse, by T. A. Jenkins 37445
[Subtitle: Being Hints Selected from Various Sources
and Compiled into a System of Equitation]
Cookery for Little Girls, by Olive Hyde Foster 37444
The Fascinating Boston, by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe 37443
[Subtitle: How to Dance and How to Teach
the Popular New Social Favorite]
Gulliver's Reizen, by Jonathan Swift 37442
[Subtitle: naar Lilliput en Brobdingnag]
[Language: Dutch]
The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37441
[Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties]
The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37440
[Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties]
The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37439
[Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties]
The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37438
[Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties]
The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37437
[Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties]
Verfall und Triumph, Zweiter Teil, by Johannes R. Becher 37436
[Subtitle: Versuche in Prosa]
[Language: German]
Verfall und Triumph, Erster Teil, by Johannes R. Becher 37435
[Subtitle: Gedichte]
[Language: German]
The Motor Maids' School Days, by Katherine Stokes 37434
The Motor Maids Across the Continent, by Katherine Stokes 37433
Short Stories of the New America, by Various 37432
[Subtitle: Interpreting the America of this age
to high school boys and girls]
[Editor: Mary A. Laselle]
Pride and Predjudice, a play, by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye 37431
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, by Richard Connell 37430
[Subtitle: and other humorous tales]
Polly and Her Friends Abroad, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37429
[Illustrator: H. S. Barbour]
L'Illustration, No. 3646, 11 Janvier 1913, by Various 37428
[Language: French]
Scientific Culture, and Other Essays, by Josiah Parsons Cooke 37427
[Subtitle: Second Edition; with Additions]
Whirlpools, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37426
[Subtitle: A Novel of Modern Poland]
[Translator: Max A. Drezmal]
Within the Rim and Other Essays, by Henry James 37425
Views and Reviews, by Henry James 37424
How We Think, by John Dewey 37423
Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce, 37422
by William Mountfort
The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, by Ellen H. Walworth 37421
[Subtitle: The Lily of the Mohawks]
Paint Technology and Tests, by Henry A. Gardner 37420
Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch, by Ulrich Frank 37419
[Subtitle: Two Stories of Jewish Life]
A Primer of Assyriology, by Archibald Henry Sayce 37418
L'Illustration, No. 0018, 1 Juillet 1843, by Various 37417
[Language: French]
The Princess of Bagdad, by Alexandre Dumas 37416
[Subtitle: A Play In Three Acts]
Trumpeter Fred, by Charles King 37415
[Subtitle: A Story of the Plains]
The World Turned Upside Down, by E. C. Clayton 37414
The Duke Decides, by Headon Hill 37413
The Empty Sack, by Basil King 37412
A Primer of Assyriology, by Archibald Henry Sayce 37411
Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey 37410
Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, by Arvede Barine 37409
[Subtitle: 1652-1693]
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, 37408
by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard
William Blake, by Irene Langridge 37407
[Subtitle: A Study of His Life and Art Work]
On the Field of Glory, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37406
[Subtitle: An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski]
[Translator: Jeremiah Curtin]
A Maid at King Alfred's Court, by Lucy Foster Madison 37405
[Illustrator: Ida Waugh]
Church History, Vol. 3 of 3, by J. H. Kurtz 37404
[Subtitle: 2nd Edition]
[Translator: John MacPherson]
Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851, by Various 37403
[Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary
Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.]
[Editor: George Bell]
Anekdoten, by J. van Lennep 37402
[Subtitle: Vermakelijke anekdoten, en historische herinneringen]
[Language: Dutch]
Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Massé, by Simon Tyssot de Patot 37401
[Language: French]
The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, by Simon Tyssot de Patot 37400
The Executioner's Knife, by Eugène Sue 37399
[Subtitle: Or Joan of Arc]
[Translator: Daniel De Leon]
Edgar Saltus: The Man, by Marie Saltus 37398
Weird Stories, by Edgar Alan Poe 37397
[Language: Greek]
The Strange Story Book, by Mrs. Andrew Lang 37396
[Editor: Andrew Lang]
[Illustrator: H. J. Ford]
Novels, Volume B, by Alexandros Moraitides 37395
[Language: Greek]
Fifty Years of Golf, by Horace G. Hutchinson 37394
Aumolan emäntä, by J. A. Bergman 37393
[Subtitle: Novelli]
[Language: Finnish]
'Green Balls', by Paul Bewsher 37392
[Subtitle: The Adventures of a Night-Bomber]
Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre, by Anonymous 37391
[Subtitle: A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror.
Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York,
Theatre on the night of December 5th, 1876]
My Memoirs, by Marguerite Steinheil 37390
Chlorination of Water, by Joseph Race 37389
Tobacco Leaves, by W. A. Brennan 37388
[Subtitle: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers]
Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, by John Donne 37387
Cultus Arborum, by Anonymous 37386
[Subtitle: Phallic Tree Worship]
Embryology, by Gerald R. Leighton 37385
[Subtitle: The Beginnings of Life]
Ma vie musicale, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 37384
[Translator: Ely Halpérine-Kaminsky]
[Language: French]
The Argentine Republic, by Anonymous 37383
Los cursos, by Pierre-Eugène Veber 37382
[Translator: José A. Luengo]
[Language: Spanish]
Snowdrop and Other Tales, by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 37381
[Illustrator: Arthur Rackham]
The Student's Mythology, by Catherine Ann White 37380
[Subtitle: A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian,
Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian,
Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies]
Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851, by Various 37379
[Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary
Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.]
[Editor: George Bell]
The Secret Toll, by Paul Thorne and Mabel Thorne 37378
Ueber die Wirkung des Nordsee-Bades, by F. W. Beneke 37377
[Subtitle: Eine physiologisch-chemische Untersuchung]
[Language: German]
Wang the Ninth, by Putnam Weale 37376
[Subtitle: The Story of a Chinese Boy]
Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill 37375
and The Fairy Bride, by Patrick Buchan
The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle, by Charles Bradlaugh 37374
Indian Scout Talks, by Charles A. Eastman 37373
[Subtitle: A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls]
In the Russian Ranks, by John Morse 37372
[Subtitle: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland]
The Triumph of Music, by Madison Julius Cawein 37371
[Subtitle: And Other Lyrics]
The Relations of Science and Religion, by Henry Calderwood 37370
[Subtitle: The Morse Lecture, 1880]
Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2), by John P. Kennedy 37369
[Subtitle: A Legend of St. Inigoe's]
The Right to Privacy, by Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis 37368
Verses of Feeling and Fancy, by W. M. MacKeracher 37367
Vacation Verse, by W. M. MacKeracher 37366
Sonnets and Other Verse, by W. M. MacKeracher 37365
The Second Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling 37364
[Illustrator: John Lockwood Kipling]
Making Up with Mr. Dog, by Albert Bigelow Paine 37363
[Subtitle: Hollow Tree Stories]
[Illustrator: J. M. Cond?]
Beautiful Bulbous Plants, by John Weathers 37362
[Subtitle: For the Open Air]
Pan Michael, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37361
[Subtitle: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey.]
[Translator: Jeremiah Curtin]
Object: matrimony, by Montague Glass 37360
Motor Truck Logging Methods, by Frederick Malcolm Knapp 37359
[Subtitle: Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12]
Determinism or Free-Will?, by Chapman Cohen 37358
Annie o' the Banks o' Dee, by Gordon Stables 37357
In Touch with Nature, by Gordon Stables 37356
[Subtitle: Tales and Sketches from the Life]
Born to Wander, by Gordon Stables 37355
[Subtitle: A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures]
[Illustrator: W. Cheshire]
Condensation of Determinants, Being a New and Brief Method 37354
for Computing their Arithmetical Values, by Lewis Carroll
[Author a.k.a. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Stories of Great Musicians, by Kathrine Lois Scobey 37353
and Olive Brown Horne
Daphnis and Chloe, by Longos 37352
[Language: Greek]
Contemporary Socialism, by John Rae 37351
Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence, 37350
by Theodore H. Eaton
Varjojen kautta, by Mathilda Roos 37349
[Subtitle: Nykyajan kuvaus]
[Language: Finnish]
The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book, by Constance Cary Harrison 37348
[Illustrator: Rosina Emmet]
Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How, 37347
by Frederick Douglas How
Mortmain, by Arthur Cheny Train 37346
The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon, by Alexander Maclaren 37345
Four Years in France, by Henry Digby Beste 37344
[Subtitle: or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence
there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the
Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith]
Caught by the Turks, by Francis Yeats-Brown 37343
Medieval English Literature, by William Paton Ker 37342
[Subtitle: Home University of Modern Knowledge #43]
Count Frontenac, by William Dawson LeSueur 37341
[Subtitle: Makers of Canada, Volume 3]
The Clan Fraser in Canada, by Alexander Fraser 37340
[Subtitle: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering]
'Midst the Wild Carpathians, by Mór Jókai 37339
[Translator: R. Nisbet Bain]
The Crime Doctor, by Ernest William Hornung 37338
[Illustrator: Frederick Dorre Steele]
My Lord Duke, by E. W. Hornung 37337
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21, 37336
by Alexander Leighton
Brenda's Bargain, by Helen Leah Reed 37335
[Subtitle: A Story for Girls]
[Illustrator: Ellen Bernard Thompson]
Näkymättömiä teitä, by Mathilda Roos 37334
[Subtitle: Runoelma elämästä]
[Language: Finnish]
The Little Red Foot, by Robert W. Chambers 37333
A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 37332
[Subtitle: Being the whole story of Sara Crewe
now told for the first time]
[Illustrator: Ethel Franklin Betts]
Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front, by E. W. Hornung 37331
Aileen Aroon, A Memoir, by Gordon Stables 37330
[Subtitle: With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites]
The Domestic Cat, by Gordon Stables 37329
Medical Life in the Navy, by Gordon Stables 37328
O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas, by Gordon Stables 37327
Turkish and Other Baths, by Gordon Stables 37326
[Subtitle: A Guide to Good Health and Longevity]
[Illustrator: Messrs Allen]
Harry Milvaine, by Gordon Stables 37325
[Subtitle: The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy]
Mrs. Bindle, by Hebert Jenkins 37324
[Subtitle: Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles]
Poems on Golf, by Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society 37323
Music-Study in Germany, by Amy Fay 37322
[Subtitle: from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay]
Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, 37321
Under the Authority of the Board of Longitude, by John Harrison
Tiny Luttrell, by Ernest William Hornung 37320
L'Illustration, No. 0017, 24 Juin 1843, by Various 37319
[Language: French]
Helena, by Arvid Järnefelt 37318
[Subtitle: Romaani]
[Language: Finnish]
Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, 37317
in Colorado, by Phillip M. Youngman
De Ellendigen (Deel 1 van 5), by Victor Hugo 37316
[Language: Dutch]
The Boy's Book of Heroes, by Helena Peake 37315
The Bradys After a Chinese Princess, by Francis Worcester Doughty 37314
[Subtitle: The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco]
The Standard Galleries - Holland, by Esther Singleton 37313
Egmont, by J. W. von Goethe 37312
[Subtitle: Viisinäytöksinen murhenäytelmä]
[Language: Finnish]
John Woolman's Journal, by John Woolman 37311
The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water, by Carolyn Judson Burnett 37310
[Subtitle: Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise
Through the Panama Canal]
Violins and Violin Makers, by Joseph Pearce 37309
[Subtitle: Biographical Dictionary of the Great
Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators,
to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects
Connected with the Violin.]
The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2), by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37308
[Subtitle: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia.]
[Translator: Jeremiah Curtin]
Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures, 37307
by Carolyn Judson Burnett
[Subtitle: Shirley Willing to the Rescue]
Les Précurseurs, by Romain Rolland 37306
[Language: French]
Roman d'Eustache le moine, by Francisque Michel 37305
[Subtitle: pirate fameux du XIIIe siècle publié
pour la première fois d'après un manuscrit de
la bibliothèque royale]
[Language: French]
Those Dale Girls, by Frank Weston Carruth 37304
The Girls of Central High on the Stage, by Gertrude W. Morrison 37303
[Subtitle: The Play That Took The Prize]
An Account of the Growth of Deism in England, by William Stephens 37302
The Whale and the Grasshopper, by Seumas O'Brien 37301
[Subtitle: And other Fables]
[Illustrator: Robert McCraig]
Henry James, by Rebecca West 37300
Talks to Freshman Girls, by Helen Dawes Brown 37299
Garcia the Centenarian And His Times, by M. Sterling Mackinley 37298
[Subtitle: Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and
Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science]
Beknopte geschiedenis van het vaderland, by J. A. Wijnne 37297
[Language: Dutch]
Samboe; or, The African Boy, by Mary Ann Hedge 37296
Soft Candy for Bees, by Dr. Burton N. Gates 37295
The Red Cross Barge, by Marie Belloc Lowndes 37294
The Divine Adventure Volume IV, by Fiona Macleod 37293
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, by Various 37292
[Editor: Dwight L. Moody]
The Heroes of the School, by Allen Chapman 37291
[Subtitle: or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin]
The life and teaching of Karl Marx, by M. Beer 37290
Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs, by Anne Warner 37289
[Illustrator: H. M. Brett]
Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century, 37288
by Henry Chandlee Forman
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Two days ago, on the 6th September 2011, Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, was found dead in his home in Urbana, Illinois, aged just 64.
Michael invented the eBook (electronic book) in 1971 when he typed the U.S. Declaration of Independence into the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois in celebration of the American Bicentennial. Just six out of the then 100 users on the network downloaded the file, but it was from these humble beginnings that Michael founded Project Gutenberg, which is now recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects.
These ten quotes are excerpts from email interviews. Their authors are Michael Hart, John Mark Ockerbloom, Robert Beard, Jean-Paul, Nicolas Pewny, Marc Autret, Pierre Schweitzer, Denis Zwirn, Catherine Domain and Henk Slettenhaar.
August 1998
“We consider etext to be a new medium, with no real relationship to paper, other than presenting the same material, but I don’t see how paper can possibly compete once people each find their own comfortable way to etexts, especially in schools.” (Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg in 1971)
September 1998
“I’ve gotten very interested in the great potential the net has had for making literature available to a wide audience. (…) I am very excited about the potential of the internet as a mass communication medium in the coming years. I’d also like to stay involved, one way or another, in making books available to a wide audience for free via the net, whether I make this explicitly part of my professional career, or whether I just do it as a spare-time volunteer." (John Mark Ockerbloom, founder of The Online Books Page in 1993)
In 2010, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) launched a free Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger.
The online edition is a complement of the print edition (3rd edition, 2010), edited by Christopher Moseley, and available in English, French and Spanish, with previous editions in 1996 and 2001.
2,473 languages were listed on 25 July 2011, with a search engine by country and area, language name, number of speakers from/to, vitality and ISO 639-3 code.
The language names have been indicated in English, French and Spanish transcriptions. Alternate names (spelling variants, dialects or names in non-Roman scripts) are also provided.
6,909 living languages were cataloged in the 16th edition (2009) of “The Ethnologue: Languages of the World”, an encyclopedic reference work freely available on the web since 1996, with a print book for sale.
As stated by Barbara Grimes, its editor from 1971 to 2000, the Ethnologue is “a catalog of the languages of the world, with information about where they are spoken, an estimate of the number of speakers, what language family they are in, alternate names, names of dialects, other socio-linguistic and demographic information, dates of published Bibles, a name index, a language family index, and language maps." (NEF Interview)
A core team of researchers in Dallas, Texas, has been helped by thousands of linguists gathering and checking information worldwide. A new edition of the Ethnologue is published approximately every four years.
The Ethnologue has been an active research project since 1950. It was founded by Richard Pittman as a catalog of minority languages, to share information on language development needs around the world with his colleagues at SIL International and other language researchers.
Henk Slettenhaar has extensive knowledge of communication technology, with a long career in Geneva, Switzerland, and California. Ten years after getting a broadband connection at home, he reads ebooks on a Kindle or an iPad.
Henk joined CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva in 1958 to work with the first digital computer. He was involved in the development of CERN’s first digital networks.
His U.S. experience began in 1966 when he joined a team at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) for 18 months to build a film digitizer. Returning to SLAC in 1983, he designed a digital monitoring system, which was used for more than ten years.
For 25 years he tought information technology at Webster University, Geneva. He is the former head of the Telecom Management Program created in fall 2000. He also worked as a consultant for a number of international organizations.
A writer and musician, Jean-Paul has offered beautiful works of digital literature, while searching how hyperlinks could expand his writing towards new directions.
In October 1998, Jean-Paul switched from being a print author to being an hypermedia author, and created cotres.net (“cotres” could be translated by “cutters” in English) as a website “telling stories in 3D”, either French-language stories or plurilingual stories.
Jean-Paul also enjoyed the freedom of online self-publishing. He explained in June 2000: “The internet allows me to do without intermediaries, such as record companies, publishers and distributors. Most of all, it allows me to crystallize what I have in my head: the print medium (desktop publishing, in fact) only allows me to partly do that. (…) Surfing the web is like radiating in all directions (I am interested in something and I click on all the links on a home page) or like jumping around (from one click to another, as the links appear). You can do this in the written media, of course. But the difference is striking. So the internet changed how I write. You don’t write the same way for a website as you do for a script or a play. (…)
We have several special projects we will be starting on or around July 4, and if you have a project you like to work on, why not send us a note and see if we can get a team of volunteers to help.
Our newest project is to solicit suggestions where this project should be in it’s 50th year. Suggestions are:
Make it more obvious that PG wants error messages–how to write them, where to send them, etc.
Make it more obvious that PG will send DVD’s so the people who have to pay by the megabyte can use PG.
An extensive library of human read audiobooks.
Please make it more obvious how to do PG eBooks for Kindle, Sony, nook, and other eReaders.
More current books under Creative Commons licenses. More apps for cellphones. A model to encourage new writers to share their work in the same spirit. Showcase how people who used to be on the bad sides of various digital divides enjoyed and benefitted.
Please add more bookshelves, particularly one to do eBooks from each country and make sure each one has at least one eBook to show how it can be done.
Proofread the Top 100 or so downloaded books to the point where we they approach perfection.
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In 2000, Stephen King was the first best-selling author to launch digital experiments, followed by Frederick Forsyth and Arturo Pérez-Reverte in Europe and many other authors then, for example Paolo Coehlo in Brazil.
Stephen King
As a first step, Stephen King distributed in March 2000 his short story “Riding the Bullet” as an electronic file, with 400,000 downloads during the first 24 hours in the digital bookstores that were selling it.
In the wake of the media attention that followed, Stephen King launched its own website in July 2000 to self-publish his epistolary novel “The Plant” in episodes. The chapters were available at regular intervals and could be downloaded in several formats (PDF, OeB, HTML, TXT). After the publication of the sixth chapter in December 2000, the author decided to stop the experiment, because more and more readers were downloading the chapters without paying for them.
The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Jul. 21, 2011
eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971
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The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!!
Just about TWO WEEKS The World eBook Fair will end.
Be sure to download your choices from the millions, and
millions of items available.
REQUEST FOR VOLUNTEERS!!!
We finished that last two CIA Factbooks!!!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO START ON OLDE PAPER COPIES!!!!!!!
We would like to start an almanac project, more details
will be forthcoming.
Please forgive me for send this out a day early, but it
is somewhat in doubt as whether I will be here tomorrow
as we are having an ever increasing heat wave and I may
try to get out of here as much as possible and I'm also
due for a virtual appearance at my mother's birthday...
number 99, so I will have lots of things on my mind.
Is anyone familiar with an eBook program named CALIBRE?
We've heard some great things about it as per indexing,
format conversion, etc?
We would love for more people to try it out and give us
some feedback on this and other conversion programs.
Update:
It appears that Amazon will now continue to sell eBooks
in greater numbers than paper books for the foreseeable
future. . .does anybody know if there was a blip in the
numbers where paper books outsold eBooks again???
AMAZON eBOOKS OUTSELL ALL THEIR PAPER BOOKS!!!
"As further proof of how digital media dominate today's
entertainment,Amazon announced Thursday that its customers
now buy more e-books for its Kindle device than all print books -- hardcover
and paperback -- combined."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH
/gaming.gadgets/05/19/kindle.outsells.books/index.html?hpt=Sbin
"It's the Year of the eBook!!!"
Update:
Not just the original story as reported below, but it's
now appearing The Barnes & Noble online stores are also
selling more eBooks than paper books.
Even the professional pundits are now on board with the
new catch phrase: "It's the Year of the eBook."
This may or may not be highly complimentary, as we know
just how much they all seem to copy each other, without
a bit of research to corroborate or enhance the story.
However, it would be nice if they mentioned birthday 40
for eBooks, if you had a chance to mention it to them.
"Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books.
We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never
imagined it would happen this quickly -- we've been selling print
books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,"
according to Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos.
According to the Association of American publishers eBook sales
for March were just about 2.5 times [in dollars] what they were
in March, 2010.
I suppose the next be milestone in this area will be if
a large physical bookstore actually sells more e-things
than paper books: eBooks, digital movies, music, etc.
Recent Milestones:
We are just about to reach 300 eBooks in Italian!!!
We have passed 1800 eBooks in French!!!
This Really Is "The Year of the eBook!!!"
More and more reports say eBooks are outpacing paper in
various retail markets and that doesn't even measure in
the free eBooks being handed out all over the world.
Project Gutenberg has reached the 100,000 eBook mark via
40,000+ internally created eBooks and 75,000 via donated
materials from other eLibraries, and subtracting ~15,000
to account for duplications.
It would take just under 1.5% of the world population to
receive the average one of these eBooks for Gutenberg to
have already given away TEN TRILLION eBOOK!!!!!!!
1.5% of the world population is over 100 million people.
100,000 eBooks times 100 million people is ten trillion.
18 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring
on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011]
[The next scheduled Rapture is now October 25 presuming
we survive October 11th.]
Leaving 1 year, 6 months, 6 seasons, or 18 months.
[OR Leaving 0 years, 4 months, 1 1/3 seasons. . ..]
[All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.]
Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions,
such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021],
and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the
same time. Current long range prediction for drives:
1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along
with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte=
enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion
books of 1 million characters each.
>From Jun. 21, 2011 to December 21, 2012 is 18 Months.
June 21, 2011 to October 11, 2011 is 4 Months -10 days.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED OVER THIS COMING MONTH!!!
We need more volunteers for these projects with about 1
month of events celebrating our 40th birthday. . . .
My own particular project is proofreading Alice to some
level of perfection and I'd love it if 100 people would
read Alice along with me in the next three months!
So far we have a couple proofreading Alice, and we need
some for Sherlock Holmes and for Pride and Prejudice.
So far we have one volunteer working on each of these.
We need some vol who can use COMP/DIFF related programs
such as WDIFF, etc., to note differences between eBooks.
Several Major New Projects Are In The Works. . . .
Right now looking for volunteers to fine tooth comb PG
eBooks of Alice In Wonderland, Through Looking-Glass &
Hunting Of The Snark for errors!!! See #7 below.
Also during this last two weeks before the US election
is the last time for two years you can ask politicians
about their stance on copyright and possibly get a lot
more than either silence or "I don't know."
40th Year Special Projects!!!
We have several special projects we will be starting on
or around July 4, and if you have a project you like to
work on, why not send us a note and see if we can get a
team of volunteers to help.
Our newest project is to solicit suggestions where this
project should be in it's 50th year. Suggestions are:
1. Make it more obvious that PG wants error messages--
how to write them, where to send them, etc.
2. Make it more obvious that PG will send DVD's so the
people who have to pay by the megabyte can use PG.
3. An extensive library of human read audiobooks.
4. Please make it more obvious how to do PG eBooks for
Kindle, Sony, nook, and other eReaders.
5. More current books under Creative Commons licenses.
More apps for cellphones. A model to encourage new
writers to share their work in the same spirit.
Showcase how people who used to be on the bad sides
of various digital divides enjoyed and benefitted.
6. Please add more bookshelves, particularly one to do
eBooks from each country and make sure each one has
at least one eBook to show how it can be done.
7. Proofread the Top 100 or so downloaded books to the
point where we they approach perfection.
So right now I'd like as many volunteers as possible to
let me know they would like like to proofread Top Tens.
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More New Projects We Listed Before
More About Copyright Extensions
Pro-Active Information About New Copyright Extensions
As many of you know, just 5 years ago or so Australia's
Parliament voted a resolution to resist those copyright
extensions that had recently taken place in the US, EU,
and other locations, but only a few years later tumbled
into line after a few rounds of economic warfare levied
upon them by The Mouse or other long copyright holders.
Something on the same order appears to be happening for
copyrights in Canada, so please keep an eye out and let
us know what you see.
What many of you may not remember is how the copyrights
were extended in the U.S. in 1998 and 1976 without even
anything like the publicity in Australia or recently in
Canada where it appears they might be the first country
to actually resist such economic warfare efforts.
If you don't think this deserves the term "warfare" and
that it is really not such, perhaps you should consider
that the 1998 U.S. Copyright Act was passed at the same
time as President Clinton's impeachment bill was passed
and done behind closed doors in a "voice vote" where it
was not recorded who voted which way.
Many people have asked why President Clinton could have
been impeached when it would so obviously fail with far
more votes missing that would have made it interesting.
What they do NOT do is answer that question by listing,
even with just a short list, the other bills that their
special interests got passed, hidden behind smokescreen
politics created by the impeachment.
This is very powerful political maneuvering, and should
be brought to light, even if it cannot be stopped.
Perhaps there is time enough to shed light on these new
bills coming up to continue the ad infinitum extensions
of copyright that have changed the U.S. from having the
shortest copyright terms to having the longest in those
89 years from 1909 to 1998 when U.S. copyright extended
from 42 years maximum with rewnewals to 95 years and no
renewal required. . .even though 92% of all books would
never be renewed via the simple paperwork and the small
nominal fee that was required.
If nothing is done to dissuade Congress from doing this
The Supreme Court has already given them the power from
their point of view to extend as long as they want, and
that makes permanent copyright of Mickey Mouse a given,
and everything else of that era along with it including
Winnie The Pooh [1928 and 1926, respectively.] The new
current U.S. copyrights already date back to 1923 so it
is obvious that Disney has the powerful vested interest
required to keep the lobbying pressure on Congress.
It should be noted that in The Supreme Court case lists
of Eldred v Ashcroft [originally set as Hart v Reno] it
was the Disney representative who got the best seats as
Eric Eldred was confined to the back row as Rosa Parks,
who won her case, and didn't have to sit in the back of
the bus, but had to sit in the back of the courtroom.
Hopefully there is time enough and interst enough to do
something to bring attention to this matter before vote
time for the next such copyright extension.
If they pass another such extension, the odds are we'll
have no more public domain books for Project Gutenberg.
[Apologies for any rough spots here, or not enough good
new materials, Greg and I have been on the road a week,
and are just getting back into the swing of things.]
More About The New Volunteer Support
In our 40th year of Project Gutenberg, we would like to
provide more alternatives for eBook production and also
for eBook distribution.
For added eBook production alternatives, we should also
need some decent supervisors to provide assistance to a
new type of volunteer group[s], as well as to insure an
eBook is quite readable upon release.
Obviously our distribution via our web sites or DVDs is
going to continue, and perhaps our volunteers will have
an interest in handing out DVDs, as well as pointing to
our various download sites.
Timeline Events
As you can see in our Grand Total figures below we have
just passed 40,000 titles the past months and will have
even more during our 40th year celebration, and 1,000 a
month over 40 years doesn't sound like much, and we are
on track right now to do around 4,000 this year.
We are currently giving away about 140,000 books a day,
just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org
~4.5 million eBooks per month or ~50 million per year!
In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with
8M "IBM Memory Sticks" available for about $60 and also
16M and 32M size were available.
Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from
over the counter stores for about $15.
2020
We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do
have them already by then, and all of the findable book
titles that are public domain should have been put into
at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all.
It should be simple to hold each word ever published, a
billion books of a million pages each, uncompressed and
2.5 billion such titles, using compressed formats which
should be the default by then.
However, the rules will likely have been changed again,
and perhaps yet again, to stop the public domain and to
insure that copyright is more and permanent not so much
for the additional few percent in sales, but mostly for
the purpose of preserving and protecting:
"The Digital Divide."
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Request:
1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection.
Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a
couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars
each for for volumes 2 & 6.
GENERATION CHANGE
I got a book this week called "Generation Change," that
lists "150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country,
and Our World." Most of these 150 items come with some
suggestion of sites to visit on the Internet. #1 is:
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There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus
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People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help
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Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book
are also very welcome.
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APPROACHING NEWS. . . .
ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS,
DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS!
THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!!
Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this
upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!!
Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various
copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S.
In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced
in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite
literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years.
Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!!
When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in
Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would
NOT extend copyrights.
Really.
However, just three years later, under economic warfare
from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled
to the pressure and gave in.
The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position--
and while some tell me they have enough signatures from
those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that
they, too, crumble before it is over.
I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!!
Further Information
As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the
characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928],
start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will
be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills
that are designed to go into effect before anything can
happen to those two copyrights.
As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort,
successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid
as a result an additional $200 million for the right to
another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the
fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the
effective date of 1978.
As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse,
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted
to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross.
Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what
must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last
few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this
means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite
soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018.
Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a
session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a
snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out
starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see.
Why?
Even during the election just before the last extension
I went to ask televised press conference questions on a
new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate
responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing."
I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask
the same question in 2015 they will get that answer.
Or non-answer.
>From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement
to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make
all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of
making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first
viewing premise [except public stations].
We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries--
cable products showing up on network television and the
opposite direction as well.
What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the
allowed buyer of NBC?
If you think programming won't leak over:
Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC.
Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed
output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons.
Anyone remember Reboot?
I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and
I fear that all of them underestimate the power working
to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words
"limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description.
However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is
really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft."
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2011-06-21 | 126140
2011-06-22 | 122952
2011-06-23 | 120381
2011-06-24 | 111197
2011-06-25 | 114085
2011-06-26 | 127579
2011-06-27 | 129923
2011-06-28 | 120525
2011-06-29 | 117064
2011-07-01 | 107993
2011-07-02 | 124645
Last month's downloads
2011-06-03 | 112305
2011-06-04 | 116981
2011-06-05 | 119609
2011-06-06 | 127878
2011-06-07 | 130354
2011-06-08 | 186085
2011-06-09 | 167116
2011-06-10 | 170721
2011-06-11 | 165808
2011-06-12 | 181385
2011-06-13 | 151851
2011-06-14 | 117570
Previous month's downloads:
2011-05-13 | 127387
2011-05-14 | 120404
2011-05-15 | 138014
2011-05-16 | 137670
2011-05-17 | 140161
2011-05-18 | 137006
2011-05-19 | 139049
2011-05-20 | 130262
We might get close to giving away 50 million eBooks this
year, just from that one site.
and our other Project Gutenberg Sites
Week up to June 20
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2011-07-13 | 7
Thu 2011-07-14 | 11
Fri 2011-07-15 | 9
Sat 2011-07-16 | 9
Sun 2011-07-17 | 21
Mon 2011-07-18 | 3
Tue 2011-07-19 | 10
Weekly total = 60
Week up to June 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Tue 2011-06-14 | 9
Wed 2011-06-15 | 11
Thu 2011-06-16 | 7
Fri 2011-06-17 | 10
Sat 2011-06-18 | 6
Sun 2011-06-19 | 9
Mon 2011-06-20 | 9
Weekly total = 61
Week up to May 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Sat 2011-05-14 | 9
Sun 2011-05-15 | 11
Mon 2011-05-16 | 8
Tue 2011-05-17 | 10
Wed 2011-05-18 | 21
Thu 2011-05-19 | 10
Fri 2011-05-20 | 8
Weekly total = 77
Week up to April 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Thu 2011-04-14 | 10
Fri 2011-04-15 | 4
Sat 2011-04-16 | 11
Sun 2011-04-17 | 6
Mon 2011-04-18 | 10
Tue 2011-04-19 | 11
Wed 2011-04-20 | 8
Weekly total = 60
Week up to March 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Mon 2011-03-14 | 5
Tue 2011-03-15 | 5
Wed 2011-03-16 | 9
Thu 2011-03-17 | 9
Fri 2011-03-18 | 10
Sat 2011-03-19 | 5
Sun 2011-03-20 | 12
Weekly total = 55
[Low due to moving sites]
Week up to February 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Mon 2011-02-14 | 16
Tue 2011-02-15 | 10
Wed 2011-02-16 | 4
Thu 2011-02-17 | 11
Fri 2011-02-18 | 13
Sat 2011-02-19 | 9
Sun 2011-02-20 | 3
Weekly total = 66
Week up to January 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Fri 2011-01-14 | 7
Sat 2011-01-15 | 20
Sun 2011-01-16 | 7
Mon 2011-01-17 | 11
Tue 2011-01-18 | 4
Wed 2011-01-19 | 8
Thu 2011-01-20 | 11
Weekly total = 68
Week up to December 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Tue 2010-12-14 | 7
Wed 2010-12-15 | 13
Thu 2010-12-16 | 11
Fri 2010-12-17 | 1
Sat 2010-12-18 | 8
Sun 2010-12-19 | 12
Mon 2010-12-20 | 8
Weekly total = 60
Week up to November 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Sun 2010-11-14 | 14
Mon 2010-11-15 | 11
Tue 2010-11-16 | 10
Wed 2010-11-17 | 9
Thu 2010-11-18 | 12
Fri 2010-11-19 | 4
Sat 2010-11-20 | 11
Weekly total = 71
Week up to October 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Thu 2010-10-14 | 10
Fri 2010-10-15 | 18
Sat 2010-10-16 | 10
Sun 2010-10-17 | 9
Mon 2010-10-18 | 15
Tue 2010-10-19 | 10
Wed 2010-10-20 | 10
Weekly total = 77
[Note: last two months
were often much lower]
Week up to September 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Tue 2010-09-14 | 10
Wed 2010-09-15 | 4
Thu 2010-09-16 | 7
Fri 2010-09-17 | 12
Sat 2010-09-18 | 5
Sun 2010-09-19 | 7
Mon 2010-09-20 | 19
Weekly total = 64
Week up to August 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Sat 2010-08-14 | 8
Sun 2010-08-15 | 9
Mon 2010-08-16 | 7
Tue 2010-08-17 | 7
Wed 2010-08-18 | 7
Thu 2010-08-19 | 5
Fri 2010-08-20 | 5
Weekly total = 48
[Lots of people on vacation]
Week up to July 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2010-07-14 | 9
Thu 2010-07-15 | 21
Fri 2010-07-16 | 6
Sat 2010-07-17 | 6
Sun 2010-07-18 | 6
Mon 2010-07-19 | 5
Tue 2010-07-20 | 9
Weekly total = 62
Week up to June 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Mon 2010-06-14 | 15
Tue 2010-06-15 | 10
Wed 2010-06-16 | 17
Thu 2010-06-17 | 20
Fri 2010-06-18 | 20
Sat 2010-06-19 | 17
Sun 2010-06-20 | 35
Weekly total = 134
Week up to May 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Fri 2010-05-14 | 8
Sat 2010-05-15 | 20
Sun 2010-05-16 | 7
Mon 2010-05-17 | 7
Tue 2010-05-18 | 12
Wed 2010-05-19 | 25
Thu 2010-05-20 | 19
Weekly total = 88
week up to Apr. 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2010-04-14 | 14
Thu 2010-04-15 | 11
Fri 2010-04-16 | 12
Sat 2010-04-17 | 19
Sun 2010-04-18 | 12
Mon 2010-04-19 | 19
Tue 2010-04-20 | 7
Weekly total = 94
week up to Mar. 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Sun 2010-03-14 | 9
Mon 2010-03-15 | 16
Tue 2010-03-16 | 11
Wed 2010-03-17 | 12
Thu 2010-03-18 | 16
Fri 2010-03-19 | 6
Sat 2010-03-20 | 11
Weekly total = 81
Week up to Feb. 21
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Sun 2010-02-14 | 5
Mon 2010-02-15 | 12
Tue 2010-02-16 | 10
Wed 2010-02-17 | 16
Thu 2010-02-18 | 11
Fri 2010-02-19 | 4
Sat 2010-02-20 | 4
Weekly total = 62
Week up to Jan. 21st:
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Thu 2010-01-14 | 8
Fri 2010-01-15 | 13
Sat 2010-01-16 | 16
Sun 2010-01-17 | 8
Mon 2010-01-18 | 12
Tue 2010-01-19 | 5
Wed 2010-01-20 | 11
Weekly total = 73
Previous Month 12/09
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Mon 2009-12-14 | 11
Tue 2009-12-15 | 4
Wed 2009-12-16 | 4
Thu 2009-12-17 | 10
Fri 2009-12-18 | 7
Sat 2009-12-19 | 7
Sun 2009-12-20 | 9
Previous month: 11/09
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Sat 2009-11-14 | 6
Sun 2009-11-15 | 4
Mon 2009-11-16 | 6
Tue 2009-11-17 | 9
Wed 2009-11-18 | 3
Thu 2009-11-19 | 6
Fri 2009-11-20 | 5
Weekly total = 39
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner for these figures!
///
Here are the current language totals
for languages with 100 or more eBooks.
July 20th
1 30768 English en
2 1834 French fr
3 776 German de
4 592 Finnish fi
5 536 Dutch nl
6 516 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 308 Spanish es
9 291 Italian it
10 147 Greek el
June 21st
1 30492 English en
2 1817 French fr
3 771 German de
4 588 Finnish fi
5 534 Dutch nl
6 514 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 305 Spanish es
9 289 Italian it
10 144 Greek el
May 21st
Grand total for today: 36085
1 30258 English en
2 1794 French fr
3 762 German de
4 582 Finnish fi
5 525 Dutch nl
6 513 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 302 Spanish es
9 285 Italian it
10 137 Greek el
April 21st
Grand total for today: 35836
1 30051 English en
2 1780 French fr
3 758 German de
4 578 Finnish fi
5 522 Dutch nl
6 511 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 302 Spanish es
9 278 Italian it
10 130 Greek el
and
11 78 Latin la
12 73 Esperanto eo
moving up.
March 21st
Grand total for today: 35542
1 29814 English en
2 1761 French fr
3 751 German de
4 572 Finnish fi
5 516 Dutch nl
6 510 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 300 Spanish es
9 270 Italian it
10 128 Greek el
February 21st
Grand total for today: 35246
1 29549 English en
2 1747 French fr
3 743 German de
4 569 Finnish fi
5 516 Dutch nl
6 510 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 299 Spanish es
9 269 Italian it
10 125 Greek el
January 21st
Grand total for today: 34931
1 29295 English en
2 1723 French fr
3 730 German de
4 563 Finnish fi
5 513 Dutch nl
6 505 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 299 Spanish es
9 266 Italian it
10 122 Greek el
December 21st
Grand total for today: 34616
1 29054 English en
2 1709 French fr
3 724 German de
4 551 Finnish fi
5 508 Dutch nl
6 494 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 298 Spanish es
9 262 Italian it
10 110 Greek el
Grand total for today: 34291
November 21st
1 28791 English en
2 1685 French fr
3 718 German de
4 544 Finnish fi
5 501 Dutch nl
6 488 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 297 Spanish es
9 255 Italian it
10 108 Greek el
Grand total for today: 33980
October 21st
1 28548 English en
2 1664 French fr
3 713 German de
4 540 Finnish fi
5 497 Dutch nl
6 473 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 296 Spanish es
9 253 Italian it
10 102 Greek el
Grand total for today: 33676
September 21st
1 28304 English en
2 1652 French fr
3 706 German de
4 534 Finnish fi
5 493 Dutch nl
6 467 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 294 Spanish es
9 244 Italian it
10 100 Greek el
August 21st
1 28047 English en
2 1633 French fr
3 701 German de
4 532 Finnish fi
5 487 Dutch nl
6 460 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 292 Spanish es
9 244 Italian it
Please note:
10 97 Greek el
July 21st
Grand total for today: 33108
1 27832 English en
2 1617 French fr
3 692 German de
4 531 Finnish fi
5 482 Dutch nl
6 456 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 287 Spanish es
9 244 Italian it
June 21st
Grand total for today: 32841
1 27597 English en
2 1605 French fr
3 685 German de
4 529 Finnish fi
5 481 Dutch nl
6 450 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 287 Spanish es
9 244 Italian it
May 21st
Grand total for today: 32366
1 27176 English en
2 1598 French fr
3 680 German de
4 527 Finnish fi
5 479 Dutch nl
6 433 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 287 Spanish es
9 242 Italian it
Apr 21st
Grand total for today: 31975
26832 English en
1590 French fr
674 German de
526 Finnish fi
476 Dutch nl
424 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
284 Spanish es
236 Italian it
N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language,
up to the top two, of course, tied for third.
What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running?
Mar 21st
Grand total for today: 31616
26540 English en
1568 French fr
662 German de
524 Finnish fi
472 Dutch nl
410 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
283 Spanish es
235 Italian it
Feb. 21st
Grand total for today: 31234
26241 English en
1557 French fr
647 German de
521 Finnish fi
470 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
395 Portuguese pt
275 Spanish es
234 Italian it
Jan. 21st
Grand total for today: 30935
25995 English en
1547 French fr
628 German de
518 Finnish fi
459 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
391 Portuguese pt
274 Spanish es
230 Italian it
Compared to the last month:
Grand total
25757 English en
1520 French fr
618 German de
515 Finnish fi
453 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
376 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
220 Italian it
Compared to previous month's:
Grand total for today: 30399
25587 English en
1498 French fr
614 German de
515 Finnish fi
451 Dutch nl
404 Chinese zh
371 Portuguese pt
268 Spanish es
218 Italian it
Previous increases:
+214
+205
+254
+281
+294
+287
All Reported Languges
Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe
Thanks to Greg Newby!
///
>From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide
[Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf]
July 20th
Grand totals for today:
[Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance,
and doing this Newsletter one day earlier than usual.]
36,701 up from 36,392 up 309 PG General Automated Count
1,972 -- from 1,972 up 0 PG of Australia!!!
777@ up from 777@ up@ 0@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,018 up from 2,017 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved
821 up from 808 up 13 PG of Canada
=====
41,512 UP from 41,289 UP 323 Grand Total [Off by 0]
June 21st
Grand totals for today:
[Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance]
36,392 up from 36,085 up 307 PG General Automated Count
1,972 -- from 1,972 up 0 PG of Australia!!! [My prev. error]
777@ up from 771@ up@ 6@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,017 up from 2,017 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down
808 up from 791 up 17 PG of Canada!!!
=====
41,289 UP from 40,865 UP 320 Grand Total [Off by 4]
May 21st
Grand totals for today:
[Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance]
36,085 up from 35,836 up 249 PG General Automated Count
1,972 -- from 1,957 up 15 PG of Australia!!!
771@ up from 767@ up@ 4@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,017 up from 2,017 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down
791 up from 774 -- 17 PG of Canada!!!
=====
40,865 UP from 40,584 UP 273 Grand Total [Off by 10]
[I must be blind this morning, I can't find the error!]
April 21st
Grand total for today:
[Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance]
35,836 up from 35,542 up 294 PG General Automated Count
1,957 -- from 1,924 up 33 PG of Australia!!!
767@ up from 763@ up@ 4@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,017 up from 2,009 up 8 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down
774 up from 753 up 21 PG of Canada!!!
=====
40,584 UP from 40,228 UP 356 Grand Total [Off by 0]
March 21st
Grand total for today:
[Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance]
35,542 up from 35,246 up 296 PG General Automated Count
1,924 -- from 1,915 -- 9 PG of Australia
763@ up from 761 up@ 2@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down
753 up from 727 up 26 PG of Canada
=====
40,228 UP from 39,897 UP 331 Grand Total [Off by 0]
February 21st
Grand total for today:
35,246 up from 34,931 up 315 PG General Automated Count
1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia
761@ up from 756 up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
727 up from 701 up 26 PG of Canada
=====
39,897 UP from 39,556 UP 341 Grand Total [Off by 0]
January 21st
Grand total for today:
34,931 up from 34,616 up 315 PG General Automated Count
1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia
756@ up from 749@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
701 up from 678 up 18 PG of Canada
=====
39,556 UP from 39,218 UP 333/334 Grand Total [Off by 1]
December 21st
Grand total for today:
34,616 up from 34,291 up 325 PG General Automated Count
1,915 up from 1,890 up 25 PG of Australia
749@ up from 742@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
678 up from 660 up 18 PG of Canada
=====
39,218 UP from 38,850 UP 368/368 Grand Total [Off by 0]
November 21st
Grand total for today:
34,291 up from 33,980 up 311 PG General Automated Count
1,890 up from 1,890 up 0 PG of Australia
749@ up from 736@ up 13@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
660 up from 639 up 21 PG of Canada
=====
38,850 UP from 38,518 UP 332 Grand Total [Off by 0]
October 21st
Grand total for today:
33,980 up from 33,676 up 304 PG General Automated Count
1,890 up from 1,871 up 19 PG of Australia
736@ up from 728@ up 12@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
639 up from 619 up 20 PG of Canada
======
38,518 UP from 38,175 UP 343 Grand Total [Off by 0]
September 21st
Grand total for today:
33,676 up from 33,372 up 304 PG General Automated Count
1,871 up from 1,870 up 1 PG of Australia
728@ up from 723@ up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,009 up from 2,008 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved
619 up from 598 up 21 PG of Canada
======
38,175 UP from 37,848 UP 327 Grand Total
@
Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe
entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope
we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total
figures are somewhere in between:
August 21st
Grand total for today:
33,372 up from 33,108 up 264 PG General Automated Count
1,870 up from 1,866 up 4 PG of Australia
723@ up from 719@ up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved
598 up from 576 up 22 PG of Canada
======
37,848 up from 37,588 UP 260 Grand Total
Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe
entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope
we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total
figures are somewhere in between:
This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system:
38,571 up from 38,277 up 294 Grand Total [off by 2]
[41 entries are still listed as reserved, and the automated
count still seems to have missed about 100 completed eBooks
but I'm leaving both of those out for the moment.]
July 21st
Grand total for today:
33,108 up from 32,841 up 257 PG General Automated Count
1,866 up from 1,854 up 12 PG of Australia
719@ up from 716 up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!]
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42?
576 up from 558 up 18 PG of Canada
======
37,588 DN from 37,977 DN 489 Grand Total
This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system:
38,277 up from 37,977 up 292 Grand Total [off by 2]
As above:
Please note that the Project Gutenberg of Europe entries have
apparently all been fed to general Project Gutenberg counting
systems, though I was originally told they were not due to an
apparently different copyright system. However I am told now
that they all were selected to work under US copyright.
I will continue to research this and make updates.
I think I made an error here, beyone the "off by 2" so if you
figure this out better, please let me know.
Right now I'm just taking people's word for all this and will
have to make future updates and announcements, but give these
weeks included the start of our 40th year, I wanted to made a
change at this time for recording purposes of this year.
June 21st
Grand total for today:
32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count
1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation]
716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42?
558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada
======
37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total
May 21st
Grand totals for today:
32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count
1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation]
712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42?
536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada
======
37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost 1!]
Apr 21st
Grand totals for today:
31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count
1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???]
704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42?
521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada
======
37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total[off by 1]
700th PGEu eBook Posted!!!
Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours.
Mar 21st
Grand totals for today:
31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count
1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia
699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42?
504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada
======
36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total
Feb 21st
Grand totals for today:
31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count
1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia
684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42?
486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
July: 14 (Title 349 to 362)
Aug: 16 (Titles 363 to 378)
Sep: 17 (Titles 379 to 395)
Oct: 13 (Titles 396 to 408)
Nov: 9 [up to November 21]
Dec: 19[up to December 21]
======
36,254 up from 35,919 up 335
Jan 21st
Grand totals for today:
30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count
1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia
680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42?
462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
======
35,919 up from 35,551 up 368
Previous month:
35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations]
35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2]
Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here
that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg.
Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.
///
Here is how we ended 2009
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2009-12-30 | 9
Thu 2009-12-31 | 12
Fri 2010-01-01 | 6
Sat 2010-01-02 | 10
Sun 2010-01-03 | 2
Mon 2010-01-04 | 21
Tue 2010-01-05 | 5
Weekly Total 65
December 21, 2009
Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter
25866 English en
1531 French fr
625 German de
517 Finnish fi
455 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
384 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
225 Italian it
etc.
30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Austr.
675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada
[Estimated]
2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307
Chinese eBooks]
====== ======
35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting
subtractions]
9.825 eBooks Per Day
68.773 eBooks Per Week
297.850 eBooks Per Month
///
Here is how we ended 2008
27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
[202 up to December, no current report]
2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
====== ======
32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles.
The most number of books posted...
...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
We averaged
338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year]
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to
the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
100 eBooks in Greek as of September, 2010
TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about
the number of books in the average U.S. public library
32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints]
[And presuming 3 after official count]
32,000 on Calculating
31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
30,000 on 20081021
29,500 on 20080919
29,000 ~~ Calculating
28,500 ~~ Calculating
28,000 ~~ 20080516
27,500 on 20080405
27,000 ~~ 20080229
26,500 on 20080126
26,000 on 20071224
25,000 on 20071012
24,000 on 20070710
23,000 on 20070415
PG-AU
1,700 on 20081010
1,600 on 20080208
1,500 on 20070407
PG Canada
175 on 20080930
100 on 20080325
110 on 20080417
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PS
A bonus for all of those who have read this far:
Apple reported profits doubled in the last quarter to $7.31
billion from total revenues of $28.57, making ~25% profits,
based on high sales of iPhones and iPads.
Comments from Steve Jobs:
We're thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent
and profits up 125 percent."
"Right now, we're very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to
our users this fall."