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Subject: [gweekly] Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
To: "Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter" <gweekly@listserv.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:40:23 -0400 (EDT)
**Project Gutenberg's Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, August 29, 2001**
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
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Kelly Hurt <klhurt@yahoo.com>
Will send the following book:
Corelli: The Life Everlasting
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Requests
If anyone has Palm foldup keyboard, I am very interested!
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From: studio gordini <studio.gordini@libero.it>
To: hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu
Subject: S.R. Gardiner's Works
Dear Professor Hart,
thank you for your kind and prompt answer.
The dates of S.R. Gardiner's life and works are as follows:
b. 1829 - d. 1902.
(1863--1882): History of England 1603-1642;
(1886-1891): The Great Civil War;
(1895-1901) Commonwealth and Protectorate (unfinished).
So there shouldn't be any problems for the copyright.
The Great Civil War and Commonwealth and Protectorate were reprinted
in the 1980s by The Windrush Press, and, as far as I am aware, are
still in print.
If you decide to put them on the agenda of Project Gutemberg, and you have
nothing to object, I should feel very flattered if you would entrust the
task to me (at least for one work, provided the copy of the book is
scannable). I have enough time on my hands to do the job in about a year.
After retiring from teaching (I was reader of Eng. Lit. at the University
of Padua), I am a partner in a typesetting firm and we do a lot of scanning
with Omnipage 8. Of course the scanning is only the first step, as you
know: the most timeconsuming and difficult part of the job is the reading,
correction and encoding of the text (we do all this using MS Word 5.1).
I am aware that all this must be done for free: but I have availed myself
so many times of the e-texts of PG, that I think it a sort of cultural duty
to contribute to the project.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Sincerely
Mario Manzari
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Here is a list of the 21 other Etexts posted since last Wednesday.
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The filenames for these 5 last week were off by one number. . . .
Apr 2003 The Entire Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet [IM#05][im05bxxx.xxx]3918
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v4 [IM#04][im04bxxx.xxx]3917
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v3 [IM#03][im03bxxx.xxx]3916
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v2 [IM#02][im02bxxx.xxx]3915
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v1 [IM#01][im01bxxx.xxx]3914
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We have produced a significanly improved 11th edition of:
Oct 2002 Jo's Boys, by Louisa May Alcott[Louisa M. Alcott#8[jsbysxxx.xxx]3499
[Author's Full Name: Louisa May Alcott][Filenames jsbys11.txt & jsbys11.zip]
This edition produced the the Project Gutenberg Alcott Team,
who managed this new edition in less than one week from the
date it was requested by one of our readers on the eBook list.
This week we have the 24 following new posts:
Apr 2003 The Entire M, Mme and Bebe, by Gustave Droz[IM#13][im13bxxx.xxx]3926
Apr 2003 Monsieur, Mme, and Bebe, by Gustave Droz v3[IM#12][im12bxxx.xxx]3925
Apr 2003 Monsieur, Mme, and Bebe, by Gustave Droz v2[IM#11][im11bxxx.xxx]3924
Apr 2003 Monsieur, Mme, and Bebe, by Gustave Droz v1[IM#10][im10bxxx.xxx]3923
[Full Title of the above: Monsieur, Madame, and Bebe]
Apr 2003 Entire The Red Lily, by Anatole France [IM#09][im09bxxx.xxx]3922
Apr 2003 The Red Lily, by Anatole France, v3 [IM#08][im08bxxx.xxx]3921
Apr 2003 The Red Lily, by Anatole France, v2 [IM#07][im07bxxx.xxx]3920
Apr 2003 The Red Lily, by Anatole France, v1 [IM#06][im06bxxx.xxx]3919
Feb 2003 The Eskimo Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins [Perkins4][sktwnxxx.xxx]3774
Feb 2003 Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris[WM #12][haffaxxx.xxx]3773
Feb 2003 The Student's Elements of Geology, Charles Lyell [geogyxxx.xxx]3772
Feb 2003 Cynthia's Revels, Ben Johnson [cynthxxx.xxx]3771
70
Feb 2003 A Second Book Of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel 2[2opraxxx.xxx]3770
Feb 2003 Rejected Address, by James and Horace Smith [rjtadxxx.xxx]3769
Feb 2003 The Lamp and the Bell by Edna St. Vincent Millay 3[lmpnbxxx.xxx]3768
Feb 2003 The Man Who Kept His Money In A Box by Trollope#29[mnkmbxxx.xxx]3767
[Author's Full Name: Anthony Trollope]
Feb 2003 Coniston, Complete, by Winston Churchill [WC#18][wc18vxxx.xxx]3766
65
Feb 2003 Coniston, Volume 4, by Winston Churchill [WC#17][wc17vxxx.xxx]3765
Feb 2003 Coniston, Volume 3, by Winston Churchill [WC#16][wc16vxxx.xxx]3764
Feb 2003 Coniston, Volume 2, by Winston Churchill [WC#15][wc15vxxx.xxx]3763
Feb 2003 Coniston, Volume 1, by Winston Churchill [WC#14][wc14vxxx.xxx]3762
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Feb 2003 This Country Of Ours, by H. E. Marshall [coursxxx.xxx]3761
[Full Name: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall]
Feb 2003 Sybil, or the Two Nations, by Benjamim Disraeili [sybilxxx.xxx]3760
Feb 2003 Fridthjof's Saga, by Esaias Tegne'r [fridjxxx.xxx]3759
[Index with Norse Mythology, Wagner's Ring, and Odin, Thor, Loki, etc.]
*** Progress Chart ***
This is NOT counting the Etexts recently posted on the Project Gutenberg of
Australia site[s]. . .which will be added in a week or so, as we figure up
the ways to include them in our listings, depending on which ones are legal
to post on our US sites. Even not counting those, we are surpassed 100
Etexts for August. . .but remember, August has five Wednesdays. . . .
However, we HAVE managed to do over 100 Etexts per month since we changed
our scheduled goad from 50 to 100 on our 30th Anniversary, July 4, 2001.
We have added 24 eTexts in the past week.
With 3862 eTexts online as of August 29, it now takes an average of
100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $2.58 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One
Trillion Dollars] in books.
*100,000,000 readers is one to two percent of the world's population!*
Our Total For The Year Is About 765 For 241 days,
this is 3.17 per day or 95 Per 30 day month. . . .
This Would Yield About 1159 For The Year. . . .
We are about 35 weeks through the year. . . .
counting each Wednesday as ending one week.
Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
08/29/01 25 22
08/22/01 21 22
08/15/01 30 22
08/08/01 20 22
08/01/01 22 22
August total 117
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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***News Headlines From Newsscan and Edupage***
DIGITAL PIRACY SPREADS FROM MUSIC TO BOOKS
Book publishers are beginning to see the same kind of piracy tactics
recently experienced by the recording industry, and Internet monitoring firm
Envisional predicts that the illegal downloading of books could become as
big a problem as Napster. Envisional found nearly 7,300 copyrighted titles
available for free through file-sharing networks such as Gnutella, including
more than 700 individual copies of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. In
most cases, the book has been scanned and converted into downloadable text,
but in a few instances hackers had cracked the copyright protection codes to
e-books and made them available. Envisional says the files it found are
simply the tip of the iceberg. "It's a relatively conservative estimate of
the number of illegal books out there," says an Envisional executive.
(Financial Times 23 Aug 2001)
http://news.ft.com/news/industries/internet&e-commerce
INTEL INTRODUCES PENTIUM 4 CHIP
Intel is releasing its new 2-gigahertz microprocessor, to be priced in the
mid-$500 range (about half of what it charged for its fastest chips a year
ago); prices on the older Pentium chips will be cut by as much as 54%, as
part of a continuing price war between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
Industry analyst Douglas Lee says, "Intel has made it very clear that they
are going to rapidly push the Pentium 4 into the mainstream desktop. I don't
think Intel's mission is to kill AMD. Their primary mission is to stimulate
PC demand. What that does to AMD is helpful to their business, but I don't
think it's the primary objective." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 23 Aug 2001)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/004841.htm
WORK FROM HOME, SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
The U.S. Commerce Department has begun a pilot program that will give
economic incentives to companies in five cities with poor air quality --
Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Philadelphia and Washington -- for allowing
their employees to telecommute. Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta assured a
group of Los Angeles executives: "E-commuting is a tool that help your
employees be more productive workers. It could be the best thing you do for
your bottom line this year." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 22 Aug 2001)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/051210.htm
LIBRARY PACT SIGNALS NEW CHAPTER IN E-BOOK LENDING
California State University system is working with NetLibrary to provide
simultaneous access to electronic books for multiple borrowers -- a
significant change in how subscription models generally work. Previously, a
single copy of an e-book could be borrowed by only one reader at a time --
just like a print version. Under the new rules, half of the 1,500 e-books
owned by Cal State will be available to multiple readers at the same time,
at no extra cost. Libraries need to exert more influence in the ongoing
debate over the fledgling e-book industry, says Evan Reader, of the CSU
Chancellor's office. "They accept what's put on the plate. We don't want
to do that." The Cal State system has 23 campuses and 370,000 students. "I
suspect (NetLibrary) went along with it because of our size," says Reader.
(Wired.com 21 Aug 2001)
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46160,00.html
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FBI'S CARNIVORE MIGHT TARGET WIRELESS TEXT
An association of telecommunications carriers warns that the
FBI could soon be using the Carnivore electronic eavesdropping
device to capture wireless text messages. In a letter sent to the
FCC, Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association general
counsel Michael Altschul said that the telecom industry could
not devise sufficient standards and procedures to allow FBI
investigators to capture the contents of wireless text messages
the same way they can listen in on analog communications. Such
ability is required by law, and thus the industry's failure to
provide the FBI with a solution could mean the use of Carnivore,
which privacy and technology experts say gleans far more
information than is needed by investigators. Privacy advocates
say that Carnivore has not been shown to be as selective in the
gathering of information as targeted data collection carried
out by ISPs. (Washington Post, 24 August 2001)
MOBILE COMPUTER LAB COMBATS DIGITAL DIVIDE
The Community College Foundation of California promotes
technology awareness in poor urban areas with eBuses. An eBus
is a mobile computer lab with workstations and a satellite
linkup that travels through underprivileged neighborhoods,
offering computer training and Web access services. The
foundation is sponsoring a six-week eBus tour in Illinois.
Corporate sponsors and state organizations will work with the
eBus to facilitate its state-wide promotion. The foundation's
Joyce Schriebman noted that raising technology awareness through
initiatives like eBus is one way to bridge the digital divide in
communities that lack funding, local facilities, and Internet
connectivity. "We can just park the bus and people come right
up," she said. "We'll park in front of a library, do some
training, and then show people that the same technology is
available inside that library."
(Wireless Newsfactor, 23 August 2001)
MALAYSIA'S INTERNET ROAD SHOW
Malaysia's Mobile Internet Unit is sparking interest elsewhere in
similar initiatives to bridge the digital divide. Ghana already
has buses filled with computers rolling through rural areas, and
Lebanon, Iran, and other countries are interested in having a bus
program of their own. Started in Malaysia in 1998, the Mobile
Internet Unit is a bus tour through the countryside designed to
introduce poor children to computers and the Internet. Prime
Minister Mahathir Mohamed said Malaysia, which has nearly half as
many Internet users per capita as the United States, is committed
to a "knowledge economy," and the government plans to increase
the number of the project's buses by 20 over the next four years.
The Mobile Internet Unit is a United Nations Development Program,
and the agency's Asia-Pacific Development Information Program
hopes the bus program can be used to relieve some fears often
associated with the Internet in some parts of the world. The bus
program was the idea of the former head of the Asia-Pacific
Development Information Program, Gabriel Accascina.
(New York Times, 23 August 2001)
E-TEXTBOOKS OFFER LIGHT READING
College educators sympathize with students over the rising
costs of textbooks as well as the inconvenience of carrying
them around, while sales of used textbooks do not yield any
revenue for publishers and authors. These developments are making
both teachers and publishers see the advantage in providing
customized, interactive digital textbooks to students, said
Forrester Research analyst Dan O'Brien. The University of Phoenix
has initiated a plan to convert itself into a "bookless college."
And efforts such as Adobe's eBook Initiative help teachers develop
their own digital courseware. Experts such as the University of
Phoenix's Dr. Adam Honea believe that e-textbooks will eventually
supplant print textbooks.
(Wired News, 23 August 2001)
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Subject: [gweekly] Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
To: "Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter" <gweekly@listserv.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:38:20 -0400 (EDT)
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Australia
We now have eight books posted at Project Gutenberg of Australia,
but I don't have the fine print yet figured out to tell you,
legally, how to get them. . .but I am working on it. Hence
these four are NOT listed in our index as of yet. . .more below.
North Dakota!!! Don't we have ANYone there???
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PG of Oz is up and running for posting of etexts which are "in the public
domain" in Australia. Under Australian copyright law literary and dramatic
works published and offered for sale in an author's lifetime are protected for
the life of the author plus fifty years from the end of the year of the
author's death. The work need not have been published in Australia. This means
that the works of many authors are now in the public domain in Australia and
in any other country which embraces the "plus fifty" principle. Copyright
cannot be renewed or revived by subsequent publication, nor does a copyright
held by a person other than the author have any validity in such cases. The PG
of Oz site is presently at http://au.geocities.com/gutenberg_au/ (watch the
underscore in gutenberg_au). So far, we have the following titles:-
1 0100011.txt Animal Farm Orwell George
2 0100021.txt Nineteen eighty-four Orwell George
3 0100031.txt When the World Screamed Doyle Sir Arthur C
4 0100041.txt Under the Northern Lights Sullivan Alan
Next is The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (trilogy) by H H Richardson...
5 0100051.txt Australia Felix Richardson Henry Handel
6 0100061.txt The Way Home Richardson Henry Handel
7 0100071.txt Ultima Thule Richardson Henry Handel
8 0100081.txt Here's Luck Lower Lennie
We already have a few earlier works by Richardson on the main PG site. If
works are eligible to be posted to the main site we will always do that. I am
sure that there are many of you out there who have considered creating etexts
from particular works only to find that they were ineligible for acceptance by
PG. Now is the time to take another look at them to see if they can be posted
on our Oz site.
"Project Gutenberg of Australia--"a treasure-trove of literature"
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We will try to have these in our own indices by month's end.
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Here is a list of the 21 other Etexts posted since last Wednesday.
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We have posted a significantly improved 11th edition of:
Sep 2001 With Lee in Virginia [US Civil War], by G.A. Henty[leeivxxx.xxx]2805
[The new files are leeiv11.txt and leeiv11.zip]
And 21 New eTexts for your reading pleasure and research:
Apr 2003 The Entire Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet [IM#05][im04bxxx.xxx]3918
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v4 [IM#04][im03bxxx.xxx]3917
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v3 [IM#03][im02bxxx.xxx]3916
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v2 [IM#02][im01bxxx.xxx]3915
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v1 [IM#01][im00bxxx.xxx]3914
Apr 2003 Entire Confessions of J.J.Rousseau/Book 13 [JJ#13][jj13bxxx.xxx]3913
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 12 [JJ#12][jj12bxxx.xxx]3912
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 11 [JJ#11][jj11bxxx.xxx]3911
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 10 [JJ#10][jj10bxxx.xxx]3910
Feb 2003 The Gates of Chance, Van Tassel Sutphen [thgtsxxx.xxx]3758
Feb 2003 The White Bees, Henry Van Dyke [Henry Van Dyck #7][twbeexxx.xxx]3757
Feb 2003 Indiscretions of Archie, by P. G. Wodehouse[PGW#5][ndscrxxx.xxx]3756
55
Feb 2003 Common Sense, by Thomas Paine [Tom Paine#5][comsnxxx.xxx]3755
[New text comsn10a.txt and .zip based on the Collected works of Thomas Paine]
Also see: Jul 1994 Common Sense, Thomas Paine [comsnxxx.xxx]147]
Feb 2003 The Wonders Of Instinct, by J H Fabre[JH Fabre #6][nstncxxx.xxx]3754
Feb 2003 Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes by Walter de la Mare[pcockxxx.xxx]3753
Feb 2003 Voyager's Tales, by Richard Hakluyt [Hakluyt #2] [vgrtlxxx.xxx]3752
Feb 2003 The Psychology of Beauty, by Ethel D. Puffer [psbtyxxx.xxx]3751
Feb 2003 Letters of Franz Liszt Vol 2, From Rome to the End[2loflxxx.xxx]3750
Also see:
Jan 2003 Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, Paris To Rome [1loflxxx.xxx]3689
Feb 2003 Quotations of Rousseau's Confessions, David Widger[dwqjjxxx.xxx]3749
Feb 2003 Journey to Interior of Earth, by Verne [Verne #17][xjrnyxxx.xxx]3748
[8-bit accents are included in 8jrny10.*, plain characters are in 7jrny10.*]
Feb 2003 Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto in Italian [xofurxxx.xxx]3747
[8-bit accents are included in 8ofur10.*, plain characters are in 7ofur10.*]
*** Progress Chart ***
This is NOT counting the Etexts recently posted on the Project Gutenberg of
Australia site[s]. . .which will be added in a week or two, as we figure up
the ways to include them in our listings, depending on which ones are legal
to post on our US sites. If we had counted those, we would already be past
100 Etexts for August, even with another week to go.
Our Total For The Year Is About 741 For 234 days,
this is 3.16 per day or 95 Per 30 day month. . . .
This Would Yield About 1160 For The Year. . . .
We are about 34 weeks through the year. . . .
counting each Wednesday as ending one week.
Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
08/22/01 21 22.30 or 29 this week, counting the 8 from Australia
08/15/01 30 22
08/08/01 20 22
08/01/01 22 22
August subtotal 93
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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***News Headlines From Newsscan and Edupage***
HP UNVEILS FIRST DVD+RW DRIVE
Hewlett-Packard next month will debut the first commercially available DVD
drive for PCs that allows users record a movie, watch it on a typical home
DVD player, and then erase and record again on the same disc. The
DVD-writer dvd100i will carry a price tag of $599, and PC and electronics
makers are hoping the new product will jumpstart holiday sales as consumers
seek out the latest gadgetry to complement their home entertainment
centers. Dataquest estimates that 2.1 million DVD rewritable drives will
ship by the end of next year, and that by 2005, that number will reach 14.3
million drives. In addition to HP's backing, the DVD+RW format has the
support of Dell, Sony, Philips Electronics, Mitsubishi, Ricoh, Thomson
Multimedia and Yamaha. (ZDNet News 20 Aug 2001)
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010820/07/hp-plays-first
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E-BOOKS MAY SAVE STUDENTS' ACHING BACKS
Responding to worries that students in Texas are carrying too
many weighty textbooks, the state is increasing the use of
electronic textbooks and broadening the curriculum to include
digital media. The state has earmarked $1.8 million to be spent
on e-books over six years. E-books are also handy "for courses
in which the information changes rapidly, for example history,"
noted Charles Mayo of the Texas Education Agency. In September,
the state legislature will release the results of a $1.3 million
e-book effectiveness analysis. Some people criticize that viewing
books on computer screens for prolonged periods of time is
unhealthy for kids and that electronic textbook technology is
not available for lower-income school districts.
(Houston Chronicle, 12 August 2001)
[And how many of us are happy with even licensing a bike or dog?]
LICENSE WEB USERS? IT'S A THOUGHT
An increasing number of security experts say the Internet would
be a much safer place if consumers had the basic computer skills
to protect themselves. Some have begun to float the idea that
computer users should be required to obtain licenses. Richard
Forno, co-author of the security book "Incident Response," said
this argument would lead to licenses for usage of household
appliances next, because mishaps also occur when people use
power tools or items such as barbeque grills. Rob Rosenberger
of vMyths, a virus information Web site, said that a global
licensing body would be needed if there is to be formal
policing for the Internet.
(Wired News, 16 August 2001)
[What a waste of bandwidth!]
HOLLYWOOD, AN EYE ON PIRACY, PLANS MOVIES FOR A FEE ONLINE
Five movie studios have teamed up to develop a video-on-demand
service that allows users essentially to rent movies online.
"This announcement confirms that film producers are eager for
the Internet to enlarge and flourish," declared Jack Valenti,
president of the Motion Picture Association of America. For a
fee, consumers with high-speed connections will be able to
download films. The studios involved--Sony Pictures, MGM, Warner
Brothers, Paramount, and Universal--are hoping that the service
will be adequately secure against digital piracy. The downloaded
films will be programmed to stay on consumer hard drives for 30
days but erase themselves 24 hours after the first viewing.
Video-on-demand will initially be available on Web-enabled TVs
and PCs, but is expected to branch out into cable TV and other
media. (New York Times, 17 August 2001)
"WEB BUGS" TRACK INTERNET USE
A new Cyveillance report finds that "Web bugs"--invisible
technology that gathers information on Web site visitors--are
embedded in 18 percent of personal Web pages, compared to less
than 0.5 percent in 1998. Companies such as America Online and
Yahoo!'s Geocities include Web bugs in the Web page-building
technology they offer free to users. Spokesmen for Web bug
distributors claim that the technology is not in any way used to
collect personally identifiable data on visitors, but privacy
proponents are concerned, especially when consumers are unaware
that their personal pages host Web bugs. Yahoo! does not mention
the fact that Web bugs are placed on personal pages, and AOL
fails to describe their use. "It's extremely troubling--the
technology should not be used to collect information in such a
covert way," argued PricewaterhouseCoopers' Scott Charney.
(New York Times, 14 August 2001)
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Sep 2000 The Iceberg Express, by David Cory [icbxpxxx.xxx]2325
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Feb 1998 Taras Bulba, et. al, by Nikolai Gogol [Gogol #2-7][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
[Author's full name: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol]
[Variant spelling: Nicolay Gogol]
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St John's Eve [#3]
The Cloak [#4]
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled [#5]
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The Calash [#7]
Oct 1997 Dead Souls, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [Gogol #1][dsolsxxx.xxx]1081
The following listing is a correction to last week's new post:
Feb 2003 Famous Men of the Middle Ages, by Haaren & Poland [xfmtm10x.xxx]3725
[8-bit accents are included in 8fmtm10.*, plain characters are in 7fmtm10.*]
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Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 9 [JJ#09][jj09bxxx.xxx]3909
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 8 [JJ#08][jj08bxxx.xxx]3908
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 7 [JJ#07][jj07bxxx.xxx]3907
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 6 [JJ#06][jj06bxxx.xxx]3906
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 5 [JJ#05][jj05bxxx.xxx]3905
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 4 [JJ#04][jj04bxxx.xxx]3904
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 3 [JJ#03][jj03bxxx.xxx]3903
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 2 [JJ#02][jj02bxxx.xxx]3902
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 1 [JJ#01][jj01bxxx.xxx]3901
[Author's Full Name: Jean Jacques Rousseau]
Feb 2003 The Judgment House, by Gilbert Parker [jhousxxx.xxx]3746
Feb 2003 The Road To Providence, by Maria Thompson Davies [r2prvxxx.xxx]3745
Feb 2003 The Trial, by Charlotte M. Yonge [C. M. Yonge #13][trialxxx.xxx]3744
Feb 2003 The Age Of Reason, by Thomas Paine [Tom Paine #4][twtp4xxx.xxx]3743
Feb 2003 The Rights Of Man, by Thomas Paine [Tom Paine #3][twtp2xxx.xxx]3742
Feb 2003 The American Crisis, by Thomas Paine[Tom Paine #2][twtp1xxx.xxx]3741
Feb 2003 The Entire PG Memoirs of Napoleon, by Various [napolxxx.xxx]3740
[Authors: Bourrienne, Constant, and a "Gentleman at Paris"]
Feb 2003 A Far Country by Winston Churchill All[Winston#13][wc13vxxx.xxx]3739
Feb 2003 A Far Country, by Winston Churchill V3[Winston#12][wc12vxxx.xxx]3738
Feb 2003 A Far Country, by Winston Churchill V2[Winston#11][wc11vxxx.xxx]3737
Feb 2003 A Far Country, by Winston Churchill V1[Winston#10][wc10vxxx.xxx]3736
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Feb 2003 The Inspector-General, by Nicolay Gogol [Gogol #8][thnspxxx.xxx]3735
[Variant spellings: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol]
Feb 2003 Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, by Victor Appleton [08tomxxx.xxx]3734
Feb 2003 Bel Ami, by Henri Rene Guy De Maupassant [GDM #18][blamixxx.xxx]3733
Feb 2003 Wolfville, by Alfred Henry Lewis [A. H. Lewis #2] [wlfvlxxx.xxx]3732
[Also see:
Jan 2003 Wolfville Days, by Alfred Henry Lewis [wlfdzxxx.xxx]3667
[Alfred Henry Lewis is a pseudonym of Dan Quin]
Feb 2003 Disturbances of the Heart, by Oliver T. Osborne #4[dohrtxxx.xxx]3731
[Osbourne's others Gutenberg Etexts were works with Robert Louis Stevenson.]
[This is a medical essay on the heart and circulatory system.]
Feb 2003 Quotations from The Court Memoirs of France/Widger[dwqcmxxx.xxx]3730
Feb 2003 Quotations from Memoirs of Napoleon, David Widger [dwqnbxxx.xxx]3729
Feb 2003 The Getting of Wisdom, Henry H. Richardson [HHR#2][tgttwxxx.xxx]3728
[Author's Full Name: Henry Handel Richardson]
Feb 2003 Maurice Guest, Henry Handel Richardson [HHR#1][mrcgsxxx.xxx]3727
[Pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson]
Feb 2003 The Decameron, Volume I, Giovanni Boccaccio [GB#1][thdcmxxx.xxx]3726
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Our Total For The Year Is About 720 For 227 days,
this is 3.15 per day or 95 Per 30 day month. . . .
This Would Yield About 1150 For The Year. . . .
We are about 32.5 weeks through the year. . . .
Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
08/15/01 30 22
08/08/01 20 22
08/01/01 22 22
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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ENCRYPTION AND ORGANIZED CRIME
When Phil Zimmerman created the encryption software known as PGP ("Pretty
Good Privacy") he knew that his program would be used not only by honest
citizens but also by criminals, and he says "I felt bad about that," but
notes that "the fact that criminals use cars doesn't mean that the rest of
us shouldn't have cars." Criminal use of PGP is now being examined in a
federal case against Nicodemo S. Scarfo Jr., accused of running gambling
and loan sharking operations for the Gambino crime family. The defendant's
lawyers are arguing that federal law enforcement officials acted
unconstitutionally when they evaded the privacy protections of PGP by
surreptitiously installing on Scarfo's personal computer some technology
that recorded every keystroke made, including his password. Their position
is that this action amounted to a wiretap, for which they should have
obtained a special court order, called a "Title III" order. But assistant
U.S. attorney Ronald Wigler says that "letters do not become 'electronic
communications' subject to Title III merely because they happen to have
been typed on a computer." (New York Times 30 Jul 2001)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/technology/30TAP.html
more. . .
PRIVACY ADVOCATES OBJECT TO "KEY LOGGING" TECHNOLOGY
Privacy advocates are strenuously criticizing the use by federal law
enforcement officials of "key-logging" technology to monitor the
communications of "Little Nicky" Scarfo, a reputed Philadelphia mob boss.
Rather than obtain a court-approved wiretap order, the officials used a
simple search warrant (much easier to obtain) in order to plant on Scarfo's
computer a yet-to-be-explained technology that monitors every keystroke,
including e-mail. Mark Rasch of the security consulting firm Predictive
Systems says: "The logical consequence of the government's argument is that
the government will never need to get a wiretap order for a computer. With
the technology that's available today, the government can remotely install
software on a computer to capture all keystrokes and transmit that report
to its agents in real time." (Washington Post 14 Aug 2001)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55606-2001Aug9.html
and more. . . .
JUDGES TOLD THEY CAN'T REFUSE TO HAVE THEIR COMPUTERS MONITORED
In mid-September a policy-making group of 27 judges will decide whether to
accept the recommendations of a report urging denial of one court's request
to put an end to the monitoring of its computers for Internet misuse. One
observer says: "When the courts find themselves as not the arbitrators but
the victims of such a policy, all of a sudden you find judges saying 'this
could very well be a violation of our rights.' Now the judges are beginning
to understand how difficult this has been for the private sector so long."
The judge who objects to the monitoring says it should be used to prevent
vandal attacks by outside hackers, and not focused on internal computer
uses. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 14 Aug 2001)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/060305.htm
INTERNET REGISTRAR TO CHALLENGE NAME CLAIMS
In response to widespread criticism, Afilias -- the company that runs the
new ".info" domain -- says it will challenge some of the more shaky claims
made on the most desirable names. The situation arose when Afilias allowed
businesses to claim their trademarks before registration was opened up to
the general public. Many of those claims were made on common dictionary
words, with registrants providing little or no trademark documentation.
Afilias rules allowed would-be challengers to register their complaints,
but charged them $295 to begin the process. Even if they were successful,
challengers were refunded only $220 of that fee. More than 25,000 .info
names have been claimed since preliminary registration opened July 25, and
Afilias exec Roland LaPlante says his company expects to file hundreds of
challenges with arbiters at the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Some of the names already claimed include books.info, consumers.info and
business.info. (AP 15 Aug 2001)
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010815/00/internet-names-for-grabs
PRIVACY GROUPS STILL UNHAPPY WITH MICROSOFT
A coalition of consumer and privacy groups, including Junkbusters and the
Electronic Privacy Information Center, is making a new assault on
Microsoft, objecting to the Microsoft Passport service that will be
included in the forthcoming Windows XP: "We charge Microsoft with specific
unfair, deceptive and illegal behavior in collecting information [about
Passport users], and their [Microsoft's] response is to make merchants use
this pseudo-privacy technology. It's just insultingly nonresponsive."
Microsoft denies the group's claims, and says that Passport will give
people more convenience and control over what information they reveal about
themselves. (USA Today 15 Aug 2001)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-08-15-xp-privacy-complaint.htm
MICROSOFT MAKES CONCESSION ON WINDOWS XP LINKS
Microsoft says it will modify its upcoming Windows XP software to make it
easier for users to work with digital photography software from Kodak and
others. The system originally had been designed to launch a "camera wizard"
(which was really Microsoft's competing program), and Kodak had complained
that it took considerable effort to install the software that it ships with
digital cameras. Microsoft had softened its stance on controlling the
interaction between Windows XP and digital photography after Kodak took its
case to antitrust officials and lawmakers in Washington. Still under
negotiation is Microsoft's plan to charge Kodak and others for placement in
a list of companies offering photo-finishing services online. (Los Angeles
Times 13 Aug 2001)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000065690aug13.story?coll=la%2Dheadline
s%2Dtechnology
WIRELESS INTERNET SPARKS SECURITY CONCERNS
Business travelers plugging into wireless Wi-Fi networks now found in
airports and coffee shops should beware -- those networks can easily be
intercepted, according to security experts. "When you sit in an airport and
use your laptop you might as well be broadcasting to anyone within listening
distance," says a digital forensics specialist with Predictive Systems. No
special software is required to intercept data off a Wi-Fi network, and
eavesdropping on other's e-mail exchanges is easy to do, says one security
expert. "Everyone who is touching the Internet should know that it is wide
open to everyone," says MobileStar chief technology officer Ali Tabassi.
"People should think of it as a pay phone or a cell phone, in a public
place." (AP 12 Aug 2001)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6853688.html?tag=mn_hd
CRITICS SAY MICROSOFT SONG IS: 'IT'S MY PARTY AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO'
"Clarifying its policies," Microsoft announced yesterday that if PC
manufacturers plan to use the Windows XP desktop to display icons of
products that compete with its own, then the desktops will have to feature
at least three Microsoft products as well. In July, Microsoft had relaxed
its licensing requirements and allowed other manufacturers' products shown
on Windows desktops; now, critics are attacking it for changing course. An
AOL Time Warner executive says the company's decision "reveals the July 11
announcement of flexibility to be truly a farce. Microsoft's message to
consumers, computer makers and the government is, 'We own the desktop and
there's nothing you can do about it.'" (AP/San Jose Mercury News 10 Aug 2001)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/030333.htm
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NEW VIRUS SPREADS USING ACROBAT FILES
Portable Document Format (PDF) files used in Adobe Acrobat are
susceptible to an experimental virus, according to analysis by
HispaSec Sistemas head Bernardo Quinteros and Privacy Foundation
CTO Richard M. Smith. Quinteros and Smith say the virus,
Outlook.pdf, embeds itself in PDF files via Outlook. Users who
open the file with Acrobat are encouraged to click on an image
of a peach, thus releasing the virus. The e-mail addresses in
Outlook's Address Book and its folder are used to spread
Outlook.pdf. "Since PDF files are considered safe by Internet
Explorer, it means that Acrobat security holes are easy to
exploit from Web pages and HTML e-mail messages," warned Smith.
(InfoWorld.com, 8 August 2001)
[Perhaps clearer]
MORE ASTERISKS ADDED TO WINDOWS XP ICON POLICY
Microsoft has amended its decision to allow computer makers to
configure the Windows desktop. Although the company previously
said it would require only an MSN service icon if competing
services were added, Microsoft now asks for three specific
service icons, including Windows Media Player, MSN Explorer, and
Internet Explorer. Manufacturers can choose to remove icons for
Internet Explorer and MSN Explorer, but if they remove the MSN
Explorer icon, it must be replaced with an icon for MSN Internet
service. The Media Player icon cannot be removed. Critics see
the move as backtracking from the July 11 announcement that the
company would open up the desktop.
(Washington Post, 9 August 2001)
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Nov 2002 Beethoven: The Man And The Artist/Kerst & Krehbiel[lvbmaxxx.xxx]3528
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[Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel]
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Mar 2003 The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series [CM#63][cm63bxxx.xxx]3900
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud [CM#62][cm62bxxx.xxx]3899
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v7 [CM#61][cm61bxxx.xxx]3898
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v6 [CM#60][cm60bxxx.xxx]3897
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v5 [CM#59][cm59bxxx.xxx]3896
95
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v4 [CM#58][cm58bxxx.xxx]3895
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v3 [CM#57][cm57bxxx.xxx]3894
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v2 [CM#56][cm56bxxx.xxx]3893
Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v1 [CM#55][cm55bxxx.xxx]3892
25
Feb 2003 Famous Men of the Middle Ages, by Harren & Poland [fmtmaxxx.xxx]3725
[Authors' Full Names: John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland]
[Not sure this one actually on line yet as of this writing, as this is the
FIRST new Etext not to be posted by Greg Newby or myself since Judy Boss
did a month of 19 for me years ago, and said: "Never again!". . . .]
Feb 2003 The House Of Heine Brothers by Anthony Trollope 28[hheinxxx.xxx]3724
Feb 2003 A Ride Across Palestine, by Anthony Trollope [#27][rdpalxxx.xxx]3723
Feb 2003 A Daughter Of The Land, by Gene Stratton-Porter #8[adotlxxx.xxx]3722
Feb 2003 Pioneers Of France In The New World, by Parkman #2[pofnwxxx.xxx]3721
[Full Name: Francis Parkman, Jr., though the Jr. is often left off.]
20
Feb 2003 Returning Home, by Anthony Trollope [Trollope #26][rtnhmxxx.xxx]3720
Feb 2003 The Mistletoe Bough, by Anthony Trollope [AT #25][mstlbxxx.xxx]3719
Feb 2003 George Walker At Suez, by Anthony Trollope[AT #24][grgwkxxx.xxx]3718
Feb 2003 The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, by Trollope [prsndxxx.xxx]3717
Feb 2003 Mrs. General Talboys, by Anthony Trollope [AT #22][talbyxxx.xxx]3716
15
Feb 2003 The Parenticide Club, by Ambrose Bierce[Bierce #6][prntcxxx.xxx]3715
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My Favorite Murder
Oil of Dog
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The Hypnotist
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Our Total For The Year Is About 690 For 220 days,
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Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
08/08/01 20 22
08/01/01 22 22
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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E-BOOKS SAID TO BE "UTTERLY UNNEEDED"
According to publishing consultant Jim Lichtenberg, the e-book business is
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mess. This is like having a car in 1905. It breaks down constantly, which
means you have to travel with your own mechanic--and since there are no
roads, there's nowhere to go anyway." Prize-winning novelist Kurt Vonnegut
agrees: "The e-book is a ridiculous idea. The printed book is so
satisfactory, so responsive to our fingertips. So much of this new stuff is
utterly unneeded." But a spokesman for Random House [see Honorary
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is greatly exaggerated, and that its potential is yet to be realized.(Los
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-080601ebooks.story
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COURT BACKS ONLINE RADIO RULING
The broadcasting industry suffered a setback Wednesday when a U.S. district
judge threw out a challenge to the U.S. Copyright Office, which ruled last
year that radio stations must pay additional royalties to stream music over
the Internet. The National Association of Broadcasters responded that the
ruling would upset a long-standing, mutually beneficial relationship
between the broadcasting and recording industries. "Broadcasters currently
pay in excess of $300 million annually in music licensing fees to
compensate songwriters and music publishers. Any additional fee to
compensate record companies would be unfair and unreasonable," said NAB
president and CEO Edward O. Fritts. The ruling was hailed as a victory by
the Recording Industry Association of America. "Any licensing fees that
these companies would be paying would pale in comparison... to the cost to
stream their signal over the Internet," said RIAA senior VP Steven M.
Marks. (AP 2 Aug 2001)
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Dec 1979 Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address [linc1xxx.xxx] 9
Nov 1994 The American, by Henry James [James #2] [theamxxx.xxx] 177
Oct 1997 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [US President] V2 [2musgxxx.xxx]1068
Jan 1998 The Chessman of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs[ERB#11][cmarsxxx.txt]1153
May 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2186
May 2001 Du Cote de Chez Swann, Marcel Proust [Proust #1][xswan11x.xxx]2650
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Jun 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2225
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Most of our readers missed our announcements of this one before:
Jan 2003 The Chronicles of Clovis, by Saki [H. H. Munro] #6[clovsxxx.xxx]3688
[Since this was left out of the totals before, it is included this week]
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V8, by Richard Burton[81001xxx.xxx]3442
[8 volumes done, 8 to go!!!!!!!]
Mar 2003 The Entire Marie Antoinette, by Campan [CM#54][cm54bxxx.xxx]3891
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v7 [CM#53][cm53bxxx.xxx]3890
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v6 [CM#52][cm52bxxx.xxx]3889
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v5 [CM#51][cm51bxxx.xxx]3888
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v4 [CM#50][cm50bxxx.xxx]3887
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v3 [CM#49][cm49bxxx.xxx]3886
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v2 [CM#48][cm48bxxx.xxx]3885
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v1 [CM#47][cm47bxxx.xxx]3884
Mar 2003 The Entire Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset [CM#46][cm46bxxx.xxx]3883
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v7 [CM#45][cm45bxxx.xxx]3882
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v6 [CM#44][cm44bxxx.xxx]3881
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v5 [CM#43][cm43bxxx.xxx]3880
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v4 [CM#42][cm42bxxx.xxx]3879
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v3 [CM#41][cm41bxxx.xxx]3878
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v2 [CM#40][cm40bxxx.xxx]3877
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v1 [CM#39][cm39bxxx.xxx]3876
Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon[CM#38][cm38bxxx.xxx]3875
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v15 [CM#37][cm37bxxx.xxx]3874
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v14 [CM#36][cm36bxxx.xxx]3873
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v13 [CM#35][cm35bxxx.xxx]3872
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v12 [CM#34][cm34bxxx.xxx]3871
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v11 [CM#33][cm33bxxx.xxx]3870
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v10 [CM#32][cm32bxxx.xxx]3869
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v9 [CM#31][cm31bxxx.xxx]3868
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v8 [CM#30][cm30bxxx.xxx]3867
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v7 [CM#29][cm29bxxx.xxx]3866
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v6 [CM#28][cm28bxxx.xxx]3865
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v5 [CM#43][cm43bxxx.xxx]3880
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v4 [CM#42][cm42bxxx.xxx]3879
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v3 [CM#41][cm41bxxx.xxx]3878
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v2 [CM#40][cm40bxxx.xxx]3877
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v1 [CM#39][cm39bxxx.xxx]3876
Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon[CM#38][cm38bxxx.xxx]3875
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v15 [CM#37][cm37bxxx.xxx]3874
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v14 [CM#36][cm36bxxx.xxx]3873
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v13 [CM#35][cm35bxxx.xxx]3872
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v12 [CM#34][cm34bxxx.xxx]3871
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v11 [CM#33][cm33bxxx.xxx]3870
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v10 [CM#32][cm32bxxx.xxx]3869
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v9 [CM#31][cm31bxxx.xxx]3868
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v8 [CM#30][cm30bxxx.xxx]3867
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v7 [CM#29][cm29bxxx.xxx]3866
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v6 [CM#28][cm28bxxx.xxx]3865
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v5 [CM#27][cm27bxxx.xxx]3864
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v4 [CM#26][cm26bxxx.xxx]3863
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v3 [CM#25][cm25bxxx.xxx]3862
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v2 [CM#24][cm24bxxx.xxx]3861
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v1 [CM#23][cm23bxxx.xxx]3860
Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans[CM#22][cm22bxxx.xxx]3859
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v4[CM#21][cm21bxxx.xxx]3858
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v3[CM#20][cm20bxxx.xxx]3857
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v2[CM#19][cm19bxxx.xxx]3856
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v1[CM#18][cm18bxxx.xxx]3855
Feb 2003 Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque[Fouque #5][ndinexxx.xxx]3714
Feb 2003 Aaron Trow, by Anthony Trollope[Ant. Trollope #21][arntrxxx.xxx]3713
Feb 2003 Chateau of Prince Polignac, by Anthony Trollope 20[chtppxxx.xxx]3712
Feb 2003 Relics of General Chasse, by Anthony Trollope[#19][rlcgcxxx.xxx]3711
10
Feb 2003 An Unprotected Female, by Anthony Trollope[AT #18][unpfmxxx.xxx]3710
Feb 2003 Love Eternal, by H. Rider Haggard[H R Haggard #34][xlovexxx.xxx]3709
[We are releasing as 7love10.txt & 8love10.txt and 7love10.zip & 8love10.zip]
[The 8 bit version include high bit binary characters, accents, etc.]
Feb 2003 An Introduction to Chemical Science by RP Williams[aitcsxxx.xxx]3708
Feb 2003 The Trimmed Lamp, et al, by O Henry [O Henry #12][tlampxxx.xxx]3707
Contains:
THE TRIMMED LAMP
A MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHT
THE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALL
THE PENDULUM
TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN
THE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESS
THE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITY
THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON
BRICKDUST ROW
THE MAKING OF A NEW YORKER
VANITY AND SOME SABLES
THE SOCIAL TRIANGLE
THE PURPLE DRESS
THE FOREIGN POLICY OF COMPANY 99
THE LOST BLEND
A HARLEM TRAGEDY
"THE GUILTY PARTY"--AN EAST SIDE TRAGEDY
ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS
A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT'S DREAM
THE LAST LEAF
THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUEST
THE COUNTRY OF ELUSION
THE FERRY OF UNFULFILMENT
THE TALE OF A TAINTED TENNER
ELSIE IN NEW YORK
Feb 2003 The Valiant Runaways, by Gertrude Atherton [valruxxx.xxx]3706
05
Feb 2003 Happy Hawkins, by Robert Alexander Wason [hhwknxxx.xxx]3705
Feb 2003 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#18] [vbglexxx.xxx]3704
[This is based on the 11th paper edition, 1890, first edition was 1860]
[This file [vbgle10a] is the significantly improved version of:
Jun 1997 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#1] [vbglexxx.xxx] 944
[Actual Full Title: A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World]
Feb 2003 Dot And The Kangaroo, by Ethel Pedley [dkangxxx.xxx]3703
Feb 2003 Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault [foulpxxx.xxx]3702
Feb 2003 Letters From High Latitudes, by Lord Dufferin [hilatxxx.xxx]3701
[Author's Full Name: The Marquess of Dufferin]
Jan 2003 The Courtship of Susan Bell, Anthony Trollope[#17][crtsbxxx.xxx]3700
Jan 2003 Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, by Trollope [#16][sarjkxxx.xxx]3699
[Full Names: Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, Jamaica, by Anthony Trollope]
Jan 2003 The Task and Other Poems, by William Cowper [#1][ttaskxxx.xxx]3698
Jan 2003 A Century of Roundels, by Swinburne [Swinburne #4][cnrndxxx.xxx]3697
[Author's Full Name: Charles Algernon Swinburne]
Jan 2003 The Prince and the Page, by Charlotte M. Yonge[12][prcpgxxx.xxx]3696
Jan 2003 Every Man Out Of His Humour, by Ben Jonson[Ben #2][emohhxxx.xxx]3695
Jan 2003 Every Man In His Humour, by Ben Jonson [Jonson #1][emihhxxx.xxx]3694
Jan 2003 Louisa of Prussia and Her Times, by L. Muhlbach #7[luisaxxx.xxx]3693
[Variant spellings: Louisa, Louise, Luise Muhlbach; and Luise von Muhlbach]
Jan 2003 The House of Life, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti [thslfxxx.xxx]3692
Jan 2003 Little Wars, by (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells[Wells#20][ltwrsxxx.xxx]3691
Jan 2003 Floor Games, by (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells[Wells#19][flrgmxxx.xxx]3690
Jan 2003 Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, Paris To Rome [1loflxxx.xxx]3689
[Full Title: Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1]
[From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso]
Jan 2003 The Chronicles of Clovis, by Saki [H. H. Munro] #6[clovsxxx.xxx]3688
Jan 2003 The Ruby of Kishmoor, by Howard Pyle [Pyle #5][rubykxxx.xxx]3687
Jan 2003 The Army of the Cumberland, Henry M. Cist [xcmbrxxx.xxx]3686
[8-bit accents are included in 8cmbr10.*, plain characters are in 7cmbr10.*]
Jan 2003 Egypt (La Mort De Philae), by Pierre Loti[Loti #7][egyptxxx.xxx]3685
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, All, by Winston Churchill [#9][wc09vxxx.xxx]3684
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 3, by Winston Churchill[#8][wc08vxxx.xxx]3683
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 2, by Winston Churchill[#7][wc07vxxx.xxx]3682
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 1, by Winston Churchill[#6][wc06vxxx.xxx]3681
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Jan 2003 Cartrefi Cymru, by Owen M. Edwards[O M Edwards #2][crtcmxxx.xxx]3680
[In Welsh, available in plain text as crtcm10.* and in HTML as crtcm10h.*]
Jan 2003 Getting Gold, by J. C. F. Johnson [Miner Handbook][ggoldxxx.xxx]3679
Jan 2003 Jonah, by Louis Stone [jonahxxx.xxx]3678
Jan 2003 On Our Selection, by Steele Rudd [onssrxxx.xxx]3677
[Steel Rudd is pseudonym for Arthur Hoey Davis][Story of Australian Pioneers]
Jan 2003 The Firefly Of France, by Marion Polk Angellotti [fiofrxxx.xxx]3676
Jan 2003 Die Versuchung des Pescara, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer[xversxxx.xxx]3675
[This Etext is in German, 8vers10.* has accents, 7vers10.* has no accents.]
Jan 2003 The Dragon and the Raven, by G. A. Henty[Henty #3][tdatrxxx.xxx]3674
Jan 2003 Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives [ivessxxx.xxx]3673
Jan 2003 The 2000 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook#10][No#7][world00x.xxx]3672
Jan 2003 Christie Johnstone, by Charles Reade[Chas Reade#8][crstixxx.xxx]3671
Jan 2003 Peg Woffington, by Charles Reade[Charles Reade #7][pgwofxxx.xxx]3670
Jan 2003 The Woman-Hater, by Charles Reade[Charles Reade#6][wmnhtxxx.xxx]3669
Jan 2003 The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, Baker[angbnxxx.xxx]3668
[Author's Full Name: Samuel White Baker [Baker #8]
Jan 2003 Wolfville Days, by Alfred Henry Lewis [wlfdzxxx.xxx]3667
Jan 2003 Andreas Hofer, by Lousia Muhlbach [Muhlbach #6] [hoferxxx.xxx]3666
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
Jan 2003 Maurine and Other Poems, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox[5][maurnxxx.xxx]3665
Jan 2003 Yvette, by Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant [GM#17][yvttexxx.xxx]3664
Jan 2003 The Girl From Keller's, by Harold Bindloss [tgfksxxx.xxx]3663
[Alternate Title From The UK: Sadie's Conquest]
Jan 2003 Oscar Wilde, His Life & Confessions, Frank Harris [owhlcxxx.xxx]3662
Jan 2003 Quotations from The Essays of Montaigne, by Widger[dwqmnxxx.xxx]3661
[#12 in our series of Widger's Quotations by David Widger]
Jan 2003 Out Of The Triangle, by Mary E. Bamford [outrixxx.xxx]3660
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V8, by Richard Burton[81001xxx.xxx]3442
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V7, by Richard Burton[81001xxx.xxx]3441
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V6, by Richard Burton[61001xxx.xxx]3440
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V5, by Richard Burton[51001xxx.xxx]3439
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or 96 Per Month. . .This Would Yield Abour 1146 For The Year
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Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
08/01/01 22 22
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
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Jan 2003 The Chronicles of Clovis, by Saki [H. H. Munro] #6[clovsxxx.xxx]3688
[Since this was left out of the totals before, it is included this week]
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V8, by Richard Burton[81001xxx.xxx]3442
[8 volumes done, 8 to go!!!!!!!]
Mar 2003 The Entire Marie Antoinette, by Campan [CM#54][cm54bxxx.xxx]3891
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v7 [CM#53][cm53bxxx.xxx]3890
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v6 [CM#52][cm52bxxx.xxx]3889
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v5 [CM#51][cm51bxxx.xxx]3888
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v4 [CM#50][cm50bxxx.xxx]3887
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v3 [CM#49][cm49bxxx.xxx]3886
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v2 [CM#48][cm48bxxx.xxx]3885
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v1 [CM#47][cm47bxxx.xxx]3884
Feb 2003 Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque[Fouque #5][ndinexxx.xxx]3714
Feb 2003 Aaron Trow, by Anthony Trollope[Ant. Trollope #21][arntrxxx.xxx]3713
Feb 2003 Chateau of Prince Polignac, by Anthony Trollope 20[chtppxxx.xxx]3712
Feb 2003 Relics of General Chasse, by Anthony Trollope[#19][rlcgcxxx.xxx]3711
10
Feb 2003 An Unprotected Female, by Anthony Trollope[AT #18][unpfmxxx.xxx]3710
Feb 2003 Love Eternal, by H. Rider Haggard[H R Haggard #34][xlovexxx.xxx]3709
[We are releasing as 7love10.txt & 8love10.txt and 7love10.zip & 8love10.zip]
[The 8 bit version include high bit binary characters, accents, etc.]
Feb 2003 An Introduction to Chemical Science by RP Williams[aitcsxxx.xxx]3708
Feb 2003 The Trimmed Lamp, et al, by O Henry [O Henry #12][tlampxxx.xxx]3707
Contains:
THE TRIMMED LAMP
A MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHT
THE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALL
THE PENDULUM
TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN
THE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESS
THE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITY
THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON
BRICKDUST ROW
THE MAKING OF A NEW YORKER
VANITY AND SOME SABLES
THE SOCIAL TRIANGLE
THE PURPLE DRESS
THE FOREIGN POLICY OF COMPANY 99
THE LOST BLEND
A HARLEM TRAGEDY
"THE GUILTY PARTY"--AN EAST SIDE TRAGEDY
ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS
A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT'S DREAM
THE LAST LEAF
THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUEST
THE COUNTRY OF ELUSION
THE FERRY OF UNFULFILMENT
THE TALE OF A TAINTED TENNER
ELSIE IN NEW YORK
Feb 2003 The Valiant Runaways, by Gertrude Atherton [valruxxx.xxx]3706
05
Feb 2003 Happy Hawkins, by Robert Alexander Wason [hhwknxxx.xxx]3705
Feb 2003 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#18] [vbglexxx.xxx]3704
[This is based on the 11th paper edition, 1890, first edition was 1860]
[This file [vbgle10a] is the significantly improved version of:
Jun 1997 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#1] [vbglexxx.xxx] 944
[Actual Full Title: A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World]
Feb 2003 Dot And The Kangaroo, by Ethel Pedley [dkangxxx.xxx]3703
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Our Total For The Year Is About 670 For The First 7 Months,
or 96 Per Month. . .This Would Yield Abour 1146 For The Year
Weekly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
08/01/01 22 22
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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Mar 2003 The Entire Marie Antoinette, by Campan [CM#54][cm54bxxx.xxx]3891
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v7 [CM#53][cm53bxxx.xxx]3890
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v6 [CM#52][cm52bxxx.xxx]3889
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v5 [CM#51][cm51bxxx.xxx]3888
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v4 [CM#50][cm50bxxx.xxx]3887
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v3 [CM#49][cm49bxxx.xxx]3886
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v2 [CM#48][cm48bxxx.xxx]3885
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v1 [CM#47][cm47bxxx.xxx]3884
Feb 2003 Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque[Fouque #5][ndinexxx.xxx]3714
Feb 2003 Aaron Trow, by Anthony Trollope[Ant. Trollope #21][arntrxxx.xxx]3713
Feb 2003 Chateau of Prince Polignac, by Anthony Trollope 20[chtppxxx.xxx]3712
Feb 2003 Relics of General Chasse, by Anthony Trollope[#19][rlcgcxxx.xxx]3711
10
Feb 2003 An Unprotected Female, by Anthony Trollope[AT #18][unpfmxxx.xxx]3710
Feb 2003 Love Eternal, by H. Rider Haggard[H R Haggard #34][xlovexxx.xxx]3709
[We are releasing as 7love10.txt & 8love10.txt and 7love10.zip & 8love10.zip]
[The 8 bit version include high bit binary characters, accents, etc.]
dagny
Feb 2003 An Introduction to Chemical Science by RP Williams[aitcsxxx.xxx]3708
Feb 2003 The Trimmed Lamp, et al, by O Henry [O Henry #12][tlampxxx.xxx]3707
Contains:
THE TRIMMED LAMP
A MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHT
THE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALL
THE PENDULUM
TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN
THE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESS
THE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITY
THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON
BRICKDUST ROW
THE MAKING OF A NEW YORKER
VANITY AND SOME SABLES
THE SOCIAL TRIANGLE
THE PURPLE DRESS
THE FOREIGN POLICY OF COMPANY 99
THE LOST BLEND
A HARLEM TRAGEDY
"THE GUILTY PARTY"--AN EAST SIDE TRAGEDY
ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS
A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT'S DREAM
THE LAST LEAF
THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUEST
THE COUNTRY OF ELUSION
THE FERRY OF UNFULFILMENT
THE TALE OF A TAINTED TENNER
ELSIE IN NEW YORK
Feb 2003 The Valiant Runaways, by Gertrude Atherton [valruxxx.xxx]3706
05
Feb 2003 Happy Hawkins, by Robert Alexander Wason [hhwknxxx.xxx]3705
Feb 2003 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#18] [vbglexxx.xxx]3704
[This is based on the 11th paper edition, 1890, first edition was 1860]
[This file [vbgle10a] is the significantly improved version of:
Jun 1997 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#1] [vbglexxx.xxx] 944
[Actual Full Title: A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World]
Feb 2003 Dot And The Kangaroo, by Ethel Pedley [dkangxxx.xxx]3703
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We have REposted significantly improved 11th editions of the following:
Dec 1979 Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address [linc1xxx.xxx] 9
Nov 1994 The American, by Henry James [James #2] [theamxxx.xxx] 177
Oct 1997 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [US President] V2 [2musgxxx.xxx]1068
Jan 1998 The Chessman of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs[ERB#11][cmarsxxx.txt]1153
May 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2186
May 2001 Du Cote de Chez Swann, Marcel Proust [Proust #1][xswan11x.xxx]2650
[We are releasing as 7swan11.txt 8swan11.txt, and swan11h.htm and the .zips]
[This of Volume One of Proust's "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu"]
And edition 11a of:
Jun 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2225
***News Headlines From Newsscan and Edupage***
VIVENDI AND AOL CHARGED WITH CD PRICE-FIXING
The Federal Trade Commission has accused Warner Music (a unit of AOL Time
Warner) and PolyGram (now a part of Vivendi) of colluding in 1998 to fix
prices on CDs, cassettes and videos of opera singers Placido Domingo,
Luciano Pavarotti, and Jose Carreras, knowns as "The Three Tenors." Neither
company has admitted wrong-doing, but AOL has settled the case and Warner
"has made the business decision to resolve this matter amicably rather than
engage in protracted adversarial proceedings." (Washington Post 1 Aug 2001)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12775-2001Jul31.html
FACE-OFF: SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS VS. PRIVACY ADVOCATES
U.S. federal agencies have committed millions of dollars to the improvement
of facial-identification systems that lets cameras scan faces in a crowd and
automatically compare them to stored images. An example of this technology
is the FaceIt system (developed by Visionics), which has been used in Israel
to manage the flow of individuals entering and exiting the Gaza strip and in
Tampa, Florida to taking photos of individuals walking in an entertainment
district and matching the photos with digital mug shots of known criminals.
The Visionics system and systems developed by its competitors have been
funded by such agencies as DARPA, NSA, and the U.S. Justice Department.
George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen, a privacy advocate
who is critical of these developments, warns: "America now faces a choice
about how far we want to go down the road to being a surveillance society."
(San Jose Mercury News 1 Aug 2001)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/016044.htm
VOICE CLONING
AT&T Labs has created new text-to-voice software that makes it possible for
a company to use recordings of a person's voice (for example, John F.
Kennedy's) to utter life-like statements that they never made. Priced in the
thousands of dollars and called "Natural Voices," the software could be used
by telephone call centers and other such activities. An AT&T executive said:
"If ABC wanted to use Regis Philbin's voice for all of its automated
customer-service calls, it could." Issues sure to arise include disputes
over voice-licensing rights and measures to prevent fraudulent uses. One
potential client for the software noted: "Just like you can't trust a
photography anymore, you won't be able to trust a voice either." (New York
Times 31 Jul 2001)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/technology/31VOIC.html
[Remember what I said about pay-per-view. . .eventually you will have to
pay just to give a copy to yourself. . .and then every time you listen.]
BMG TO TEST PROTECTIVE CDs
Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment is testing a new type of compact disc that
enables consumers to make a limited number of digital copies, but prevents
unlimited "ripping" of songs. Listeners can e-mail songs to others, but the
recipients will have to pay a fee to listen to them. The CDs use technology
from SunnComm, based in Phoenix, Ariz. BMG's test is the latest sign that
the era of free music is drawing to a close. (Wall Street Journal 31 Jul
2001)
http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB996530381990482524.djm
"FREE DMITRY" PROTESTS CONTINUE
About a hundred protesters showed up yesterday in San Francisco to denounce
the arrest of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who the government has
accused of violating the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The
charge was based on Sklyarov's role in the development of software used to
evade copyright protections used on Adobe eBook software. An attorney for
the Electronic Freedom Foundation told the gathering of Sklyarov supporters
that the long-standing "Fair Use" principle of copyright law "allows people
to make use of things freely without the permission of the copyright
holder." One protester said: "I'm interested in freedom of speech and trying
to redress the balance between copyright holders to control information and
the lack of the individual's right to challenge that." (Reuters/San Jose
Mercury News 31 Jul 2001) http://www.siliconvalley.com
MICROSOFT SET TO BLOCK AOL-AT&T CABLE DEAL
Microsoft is preparing to flex its financial muscle to block AOL Time
Warner's bid for AT&T Broadband by encouraging alternative bids for the No.
1 U.S. cable operator. With its cash pile of more than $50bn, Microsoft
could afford to make its own overtures, but the company insists it's not
interested in entering the cable business directly. Instead, Microsoft
likely will make further investments in other cable operators. At issue is
the software maker's determination to prevent a merger that would create an
industry giant with about 29 million subscribers, or about 40% of the U.S.
market, and would give AOL control over one of the most promising means of
delivering advanced Internet services to U.S. consumers. (Financial Times
30 Jul 2001) http://news.ft.com/news/industries/infotechnology
[Will this happen with computers???]
REPLACEMENT PHONES TO DRIVE CELL PHONE MARKET
China's vast wireless market is coveted by handset makers, but it won't
revive the sector, says First Union Securities analyst Mark Roberts. "It's
not the new subscriber globally that is going to drive the industry. It is
the replacement market." According to UBS Warburg, more than half the cell
phones sold this year will be replacement models, not new purchases. And
that trend is set to continue -- in 2002, 75% of handset sales will be
replacements. Analyst say that while China boasts hundreds of millions of
potential customers, most of them are poor. "They can sell millions (of
handsets), but they'd have to sell them cheap. It's really a gray market
for unsold, surplus handsets from Europe," says Matt Finick, an analyst
with Thomas Weisel Partners. In contrast, the next-generation handsets
needed for European and U.S. wireless data services can cost $100 and up,
providing manufacturers with healthy profit margins. (Investor's Business
Daily 30 Jul 2001) http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech01.asp?v=7/30
WHO WILL BUY? AND WHY?
Although the personal computer industry has been engaged in a price war and
the price of a 1-GHz Pentium III system has fallen to about $700, sales are
lagging, and research firm Gartner Dataquest thinks the reason is simply
that, for most people, the computers they already own are fast enough. One
glimmer of hope for the industry is that the October release of Microsoft's
new Windows XP operating system will prompt people to decide that it's
easier just to buy a new system than to worry that an existing system might
be growing obsolete. (AP/Washington Post 30 Jul 2001)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5559-2001Jul30.html
CONGRESS AGAINST CARNIVORE
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would require
federal law-enforcement officials to provide a detailed accounting each
year of how they made use of the system known as Carnivore (renamed DCS
1000), which allows criminal investigators with a search warrant to monitor
the e-mail traffic to and from a suspect's computer. The FBI would be
called on to reveal which officials and which courts authorized its use,
which specific laws were invoked to justify its use, and what benefits were
gained from that use. (Reuters/USA Today 25 Jul 2001)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-07-25-carnivore.htm
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LINUX TAKES ON BIG JOBS
The Linux operating system is being used for more and more
mission-critical business applications. Last week, Korean Air
announced that its flight crew scheduling and daily revenue
accounting systems were being moved to Linux. Linux has been
running Newell Rubbermaid's Multi Router Traffic Grapher on its
mainframe for almost a year. Winnebago Industries saved 70
percent of its software licensing costs for e-mail by using
Linux operating on an IBM mainframe. Mainframe Linux has been
downloaded from the Web roughly 3,000 times, and 10 of those
downloads are running mission-critical systems, said Giga
Information Group analyst David Mastrobattista.
(Interactive Week, 23 July 2001)
CONGRESS NOT LIKELY TO CHANGE DMCA
While programmers, technologists, and consumer advocates rail
against the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), insiders
believe that there is little chance of changing the law.
Approved unanimously in both the House and Senate in 1998, the
DMCA has received continued support from Congress and its
corporate lobbyists. Leaders of the technology and intellectual
property rights committees on both sides of Congress say they
approve of the law in its current form. Legal challenges to the
law, including free speech arguments, have not fared well either,
as shown in the case of the recording industry against the online
magazine 2600, which failed in a bid to publish code that can
unscramble DVD copy protection. Currently, many opposed to the
DMCA in its current form are in an uproar over the arrest of a
Russian programmer accused of creating and disseminating software
to circumvent file-copying protections on e-books. Although
Adobe, the software firm that first sought the programmer's
arrest, has since reversed its calls for prosecution, observers
say the government is likely to press forward with its case.
(Wired News, 25 July 2001)
PIRACY BATTLE HITTING HOME
The Fair Use provision of the copyright law give users the
right to quote or reference the intellectual property of others.
Based on this, Raymond Kim, who owns a laptop and two desktop
computers, said he should be allowed to share the software among
his family's machines rather than buy three programs. Most in
the software industry do not agree. For example, Microsoft plans
to allow consumers one standard installation of Office XP and one
backup copy; the software will shut down after 50 uses if the
program is not registered after installation. On the other hand,
Adobe takes a lax attitude toward consumers installing one piece
of software on other computers in their home.
(Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2001)
SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT FUND ONLINE CONTENT?
Former PBS President Lawrence K. Grossman and former FCC Chief
Newton N. Minow argue that the federal government should become
more involved in bridging the digital divide by providing online
public space to supplement their efforts to Web-enable schools
and communities. With this end in mind, Grossman and Minow have
formed the Digital Promise Project, an organization dedicated
to the provision of educational and civic-centered Web content
through initiatives such as the Digital Opportunity Investment
Trust. The project would support the implementation of online
libraries and museum collections, as well as programs to help
teachers learn how to take full advantage of technology in their
classrooms. The Digital Promise group suggests that funding
could be acquired from electromagnetic spectrum auctions, but
they would not be the only agency vying for such revenues. The
promise of public sites uncluttered by marketing is a worthy
goal, said Grossman. "You could have a virtual solar system,
a 3D model of a human body, or a recreation of Mark Twain's America."
(Wall Street Journal, 23 July 2001)
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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:37:08 -0500 (CDT)
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Here is a list of the Etexts posted since last Wednesday.
For "instant" access to our new Etexts you can surf to:
http://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03
or
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You will need the first five letters of the filenames listed below.
Most of our readers missed our announcements of at least one of these before:
Jan 2003 The Dragon and the Raven, by G. A. Henty[Henty #3][tdatrxxx.xxx]3674
Jan 2003 Out Of The Triangle, by Mary E. Bamford [outrixxx.xxx]3660
[Since these were left out of the totals before, they are included this week]
REposted
Jan 2003 Oscar Wilde, His Life & Confessions, V1 by Harris [1whlcxxx.xxx]3662
[Author's Full Name: Frank Harris] [This was not listed as volume 1 of 2]
And here are the 24 new releases for this week.
24 Etext per week would yield 1248 per year, or
just over 100 per month.
Mar 2003 The Entire Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset [CM#46][cm46bxxx.xxx]3883
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v7 [CM#45][cm45bxxx.xxx]3882
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v6 [CM#44][cm44bxxx.xxx]3881
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v5 [CM#43][cm43bxxx.xxx]3880
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v4 [CM#42][cm42bxxx.xxx]3879
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v3 [CM#41][cm41bxxx.xxx]3878
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v2 [CM#40][cm40bxxx.xxx]3877
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, by Hausset, v1 [CM#39][cm39bxxx.xxx]3876
Feb 2003 Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault [foulpxxx.xxx]3702
Feb 2003 Letters From High Latitudes, by Lord Dufferin [hilatxxx.xxx]3701
[Author's Full Name: The Marquess of Dufferin]
Jan 2003 The Courtship of Susan Bell, Anthony Trollope[#17][crtsbxxx.xxx]3700
Jan 2003 Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, by Trollope [#16][sarjkxxx.xxx]3699
[Full Names: Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, Jamaica, by Anthony Trollope]
Jan 2003 The Task and Other Poems, by William Cowper [#1][ttaskxxx.xxx]3698
Jan 2003 A Century of Roundels, by Swinburne [Swinburne #4][cnrndxxx.xxx]3697
[Author's Full Name: Charles Algernon Swinburne]
Jan 2003 The Prince and the Page, by Charlotte M. Yonge[12][prcpgxxx.xxx]3696
95
Jan 2003 Every Man Out Of His Humour, by Ben Jonson[Ben #2][emohhxxx.xxx]3695
Jan 2003 Every Man In His Humour, by Ben Jonson [Jonson #1][emihhxxx.xxx]3694
Jan 2003 Louisa of Prussia and Her Times, by L. Muhlbach #7[luisaxxx.xxx]3693
[Variant spellings: Louisa, Louise, Luise Muhlbach; and Luise von Muhlbach]
Jan 2003 The House of Life, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti [thslfxxx.xxx]3692
Jan 2003 Little Wars, by (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells[Wells#20][ltwrsxxx.xxx]3691
90
Jan 2003 Floor Games, by (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells[Wells#19][flrgmxxx.xxx]3690
Jan 2003 Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, Paris To Rome [1loflxxx.xxx]3689
[Full Title: Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1]
[From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso]
and, of course. . . .
Jan 2003 The Dragon and the Raven, by G. A. Henty[Henty #3][tdatrxxx.xxx]3674
Jan 2003 Out Of The Triangle, by Mary E. Bamford [outrixxx.xxx]3660
Jan 2003 Oscar Wilde, His Life & Confessions, V1 by Harris [1whlcxxx.xxx]3662
[Author's Full Name: Frank Harris]
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Our Total For The Year Is About 652 For The First 7 Months,
or 93 Per Month. . .This Would Yield 1117 For The Year. . .
Total
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
A Little About Last Weeks Headlines. . . .
Vladimir Katalov reports from the frontline
http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=179
Who really owns AEBPR Copyright?
In the U. S. District Court criminal complaint that led to the recent
arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov, a special agent for the FBI made several
references to copyright ownership of the controversial eBook decrypting
software. Sklyarov, an employee of ElcomSoft Ltd., appears to have been
singled out for arrest -- several other ElcomSoft employees were also in
the U.S. at the same Las Vegas conference -- at least in part because
Adobe Systems investigators identified him to the FBI as being the
copyright owner for the company's Advanced eBook Processor software. But
a closer look reveals that may not be true.
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=1546
Thought you guys might wannt to see the interview with Dmitri. One of
the local Las Vegas stations managed to get an exclusive.
http://www.feedroom.com/index.jsp?fr_story=ebdf5e74fbe7141ec78657bf06334
7072e9748f6
Some of you with Macs and Linux boxes may have problem accessing the
site's interface, so here are the Real Media URLs:
Broadband:
rtsp://a555.r.akareal.net/ondemand/7/555/1471/v001/feedroom.download.aka
mai.com/1471/20010718/russianhacker-pkg_bb_90ace3f1ed78c782cbe99741b299f
07b64ebaba7.rm
Narrowband:
rtsp://a555.r.akareal.net/ondemand/7/555/1471/v001/feedroom.download.aka
mai.com/1471/20010718/russianhacker-pkg_5489eca21ffba6acbeb27ae12eeb8127
1e8fadec.rm
This is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release
"Adobe, Electronic Frontier Foundation Call for Release
of Russian Programmer
"For Immediate Release: July 23, 2001
"San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) and the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today jointly recommend the
release of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov from federal custody.
"Adobe is also withdrawing its support for the criminal complaint
against Dmitry Sklyarov.
...
" 'We strongly support the DMCA and the enforcement of copyright
protection of digital content,' said Colleen Pouliot, Senior Vice
President and General Counsel for Adobe. 'However, the prosecution of
this individual in this particular case is not conducive to the best
interests of any of the parties involved or the industry. ElcomSoft's
Advanced eBook Processor software is no longer available in the
United States, and from that perspective the DMCA worked. Adobe will
continue to protect its copyright interests and those of its
customers.' "
and now to our normal headlines. . . .
ADOBE CHIMES IN, ASKS GOVERNMENT TO FREE DMITRY
Adobe Systems is asking the government to release Russian programmer Dmitry
Skylarov, who was arrested last week in Las Vegas for violating the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by trafficking in code used to break the
encryption used to protect Adobe's eBook Reader software. An international
"Free Dmitry" movement has protested the government's action, which was
taken at Adobe's urging. Adobe now says that although it strongly supports
the DMCA and the enforcement of copyright protection of digital content, it
believes that " the prosecution of this individual in this particular case
is not conducive to the best interests of any of the parties involved or
the industry.'' A lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil
liberties advocacy group, said: "We explained to Adobe, imagine how you
would feel if one of your programmers was visiting in Russia and was
arrested for making software that was considered illegal there? It sort of
hit home with them that what they are doing here isn't right.'' However, a
government attorney prosecuting the case says: "This is a criminal case
brought by the United States against the defendant, and to that extent no
one else is a party.'' (San Jose Mercury News 24 Jul 2001)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/adobe072401.htm
[Bargain Hunters Delight!]
PC WORLDWIDE SALES LOWEST IN 15 YEARS
PC shipments fell 2% to 30 million units during the second quarter, Gartner
Research's Todd Kort says: "This is the first time we've had a worldwide
decline since 1986 on a year-over-year basis. Among the top five vendors in
the U.S., Dell was No. 1. They had a share of 23.6% of the market."
Shipments to Asia declined more than had been expected, and Europe
shipments also fell. Kort's analysis: "Without a major shift in the PC
industry structure, future sustained high-growth rates are improbable. For
the time being, vendors continue to opt for price-cutting rather than
changing PC design to stimulate growth." (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 20
Jul 2001) http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/007598.htm
[As I Said About Everything Becoming Pay-Per-View. . . .]
BRITANNICA ADDS FEES FOR FULL-TEXT ACCESS
Britannica.com has become the latest content-based Web site to acknowledge
the need to charge for its information, joining news sites like the Wall
Street Journal and Inside.com, which unveiled a redesigned version of its
media-news site Wednesday, along with a new pricing scheme. Britannica says
it will soon begin charging users $5 a month or $50 for a year of access to
the full online text of Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been free since
the site launched in October 1999. Banners and pop-up ads will be
restricted to the free parts of the site, where users will be able to read
the first few paragraphs of each encyclopedia article. Web readers "have to
face the real world -- which is that the broadcast-television model doesn't
work for three million independent Web sites," says Steve Brill, CEO of
Brill Media Holdings, which acquired Inside.com's parent company, Powerful
Media, in April. "It barely works for the four television networks." (Wall
Street Journal 19 Jul 2001)
http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB995480679374172733.djm
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G8 SETS PLAN TO BRIDGE DIGITAL DIVIDE
The Group of Eight's Digital Opportunity Task Force has produced
a report on tackling the global digital divide that calls for the
use of computers and technology as a way to fight poverty.
Vernon Ellis, international chairman of Accenture and a member of
the task force, said that technology can be used to improve
health and education and foster the growth of enterprise in poor
countries. Group of Eight members are urging the private sector
to help implement the nine strategies outlined in the report,
which include lowering the cost of Internet access and improving
connectivity, helping countries develop their own Internet plans,
and supporting entrepreneurs in these countries. The U.S.
government says it will allocate $100 million in funding to bring
the report's agenda to fruition, according to the Markle
Foundation.
(Reuters, 21 July 2001)
COPY-PROTECTED CDS QUIETLY SLIP INTO STORES
Macrovision, in coordination with several major recording labels,
has for several months been piloting new technology to prevent
music consumers from copying CDs onto their PCs. The technology
distorts CD recordings with a series of audible pops and clicks
when the music is copied onto a PC. The Macrovision pilot is the
latest in a series of attempts by the recording industry to
protect music from digital piracy. Previous efforts have largely
failed, either because various industry elements have been unable
to agree on how to implement the technology or because the
technology also disrupted normal CD playback. The recording
industry's attempts to prevent the copying of CDs onto PCs
presents a legal quandary, however, because the courts have
recognized the right of consumers to copy copyright-protected
work for home use.
(Cnet, 18 July 2001)
MICROSOFT SOFTENS XP ANTIPIRACY FEATURE
Microsoft has announced that it will alter the controversial
Product Activation policy in its forthcoming Windows XP operating
system so that users can modify a certain number of hardware
components inside their PC without having to register with the
company for a new access code. The policy, which is intended to
prevent the software from being copied to multiple PCs, has come
under fire because it restricts access to the operating system
if users make common changes to their PCs' hardware components.
Users who add a graphics card or additional memory, for example,
would have to contact Microsoft and re-register. Microsoft says
it will allow users to change a certain number of hardware
components within a limited amount of time--this time limit has
not been decided yet--without having to gain a new access code.
(Reuters, 18 July 2001)
E-BOOKS IN LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
For the first time, the U.S. Copyright Office has received
copyright-registration submissions for full-length books in
digital format. McGraw-Hill has submitted two books to the
Copyright Office over the Internet. The Office verified the
submissions through digital signatures. Not only is the
Copyright Office the public record of copyright registrations,
but it also furnishes the Library of Congress with copies of
works. Noting the foresight that the Copyright Office and the
Library of Congress have shown in building a digital collection,
a spokesperson for McGraw-Hill said, "Readers and publishers
should be applauding."
(New York Times, 18 July 2001)
THE WAR OVER ROYALTY RATES
The U.S. Copyright Office issued a ruling that Internet music
firms can take part in the federal arbitration proceeding that
will determine the royalties Internet radio operators must pay
to recording companies. The Copyright Office found that the
firms have "a specific interest" in the arbitration process and
are therefore "entitled to participate." The recording industry
objected, arguing that these particular Internet music
firms--which include MTVi Group, Xact Radio, and Launch
Media--should not enter the proceedings, forcing the firms to
reach individual royalty agreements with recording companies,
most likely at rates higher than the federal arbitration will
set. The recording industry and the seven Internet music firms
involved filed lawsuits over the dispute, and the Copyright
Office concluded that the courts should ultimately decide.
(Wall Street Journal, 17 July 2001)
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Jan 2003 The Ruby of Kishmoor, by Howard Pyle [Pyle #5][rubykxxx.xxx]3687
Jan 2003 The Army of the Cumberland, Henry M. Cist [xcmbrxxx.xxx]3686
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Jan 2003 Egypt (La Mort De Philae), by Pierre Loti[Loti #7][egyptxxx.xxx]3685
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, All, by Winston Churchill [#9][wc09vxxx.xxx]3684
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Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 2, by Winston Churchill[#7][wc07vxxx.xxx]3682
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 1, by Winston Churchill[#6][wc06vxxx.xxx]3681
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crash that never actually seemed to happen, but I was
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JAILED FOR DEMONSTRATING COPY PROTECTION IS INADEQUATE
Wired News has a short report on this arrest as well:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45298,00.html
and
Planetebook's story cites Sklyarov's talk at DefCon 9
on e-book security as justification of his arrest.
Vladimir Katalov has informed Planet eBook that Dmitry Sklyarov, author
of the "Advanced eBook Processor", was in fact arrested, and that he is
being held in a Los Vegas prison waiting for subsequent judgement in
Calfornia.
http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=165
and
eBookWeb has a story also about this, written before
the arrest was confirmed, but with additional details.
and
From: Vladimir Katalov <vkatalov@elcomsoft.com>
> I've already contacted the people I know in EFF about this event.
> Hopefully they'll take some action (they may find it useful in
> their ongoing effort to get the more extreme provisions of DMCA
> overturned.)
That's Vladimir Katalov speaking. I'm in Portland (Oregon) now;
Alexander (ElcomSoft director) is still in Las Vegas. If anybody can
help us somehow (at least by making all that as public as possible) --
you're welcome!
> - he reports that Sklyarov gave away copies of software at the
> conference, which may be the justification for the arrest, and
Correction: he gave away *demo* versions, which decrypt only 25% of
the documents. We don't sell that software anymore (we stopped sales
almost immediately after first Adobe complaint).
> According to a media representative in the FBI's Las Vegas field office,
> Sklyarov was arrested on a federal warrant issued by the US District
> Court of the Northern District of California, charging him with one
> count of trafficking in software to circumvent copryrightable materials
> and one count of aiding and abbetting such trafficking. He is being held
> at a US Marshalls detention facility in Las Vegas pending his
> extradition to California.
Actually, Dmitry just a programmer/cryptanalyst, but AEBPR is our
corporate product, released under the copyright of our company,
ElcomSoft!!! He would not do anything without our (company)
permission/request, of course.
--
Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:vkatalov@elcomsoft.com
RANDOM HOUSE SUFFERS SETBACK IN E-BOOK SUIT
Publisher Random House cannot prevent electronic publisher
Rosetta Books from publishing e-book versions of Random House
titles, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. In the suit it filed
against Rosetta this February, Random House argued that
electronic publishing rights to the eight titles in question,
each a part of Random House's backlist of previously published
titles, were a part of the original publishing contract's
stipulation that the publisher had the right to publish a work
"in book form." However, in turning down Random House's request
for a preliminary injunction, Judge Sidney H. Stein concluded
that e-books are not covered by this stipulation because they are
significantly different from printed books. Rosetta officials say
Stein's decision could be a boon to the fledgling e-book industry,
and legal observers agree that his ruling, if unchallenged, could
establish a precedent for electronic publishing rights.
(Wall Street Journal, 12 July 2001)
FREELANCE WIN PUTS LIBRARIANS IN MIDDLE
The librarians who manage the digital archives of major
publications have begun removing freelance articles from their
databases. The recent Supreme Court ruling that requires
publishers to compensate freelance writers for work redistributed
digitally has caused most newspapers and magazines to delete
those articles rather than give the writers additional payment.
Sharon Stewart Reeve, librarian for the San Diego Union-Tribune,
said she and many of her colleagues have mixed emotions over the
verdict. Despite the inconvenience of sorting through 10 years
of archives to mask or delete freelance work, many librarians
sympathize with the writers' small salaries.
(Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2001)
WATCHING YOU WATCHING THEM
New tracking technology in cell phones, interactive TVs, and
GPS-enabled rental cars is raising privacy concerns. Already,
several companies are developing software to help track and make
use of data collected from TV set-top boxes. The Center for
Digital Democracy, an advocacy group for consumer privacy, is
currently lobbying for regulations on the use of such technology
that targets ads and gathers personal data. Aware of the possible
government restrictions, the Association for Interactive Media is
trying to outline privacy guidelines for interactive TV operations
such as Microsoft's UltimateTV and the TiVo recorder. Currently,
those companies are outside of cable regulations because they
make use of phone lines. A host of companies are rushing to take
advantage of a FCC deadline for wireless carriers to be able to
pinpoint the location of cell phone users. Besides being able to
locate users in 911-emergency cases, companies will be able to
send location-specific wireless ads to subscribers of wireless
Internet services.
(Boston Globe, 9 July 2001)
CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUP PLANS EFFORT TO PROTECT NET PARODY
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) this fall intends to
open the "Chilling Effects Clearinghouse," an online repository
of letters sent from lawyers for copyright holders to those
engaged in parodies of those copyrights. Calling such letters
"broad" and "unfounded," EFF legal director Cindy Cohn said the
organization hopes to dissuade corporate attorneys from bullying
the rights of online parodists. Indeed, such a letter spurred
the EFF's action. Lawyers for the children's TV show "Barney"
contacted the EFF, asking it to remove from its archive an
article from the online magazine Computer Underground Digest in
which an author makes negative comments about the singing purple
dinosaur. The EFF, although in the process of removing the
magazine's archive to another site, has taken up the challenge
and contends that the lawyers have misinterpreted the point of
copyright law. Cohn said the author's noncommercial use of
copyrighted material not only fails to violate copyright law,
but is, in fact, protected by it.
(Newsbytes, 6 July 2001)
LECTURER CHARGED OVER WEB SITE CONTENT
La Trobe University, Australia, has closed a Web site that
attacked Federal Health Minister Michael Wooldridge for his
ties to the pharmaceutical industry and charged the site's
administrator, Dr. Ken Harvey, with "serious misconduct." At
issue is an article on the site that refers to Wooldridge as the
"Minister for Pfizer," which the university believes could be a
defamatory statement. However, Harvey, a senior lecturer in the
university's school of public health, said the statement is
"legitimate previously published political comment or satire,
and not defamation." Harvey questions why the university, if so
concerned about the possible liability of the statement, waited
three weeks before taking action.
(Australian IT, 10 July 2001)
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WHEN IS A BOOK NOT A BOOK? WHEN IT'S AN E-BOOK!
Federal District Judge Sidney H. Stein has ruled that the term "book" in a
book contract does not automatically include the right to offer digital
versions of that same book. Judge Stein therefore denied a request by Random
House to enjoin RosettaBooks from publishing new digital editions of such
Random House authors as Robert B. Parker, Kurt Vonnegut, and William Styron.
The case will now go to full trial, although the judge said that "Random
House is not likely to succeed on the merits of its copyright infringement
claim."
http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/07/12/technology/ebusiness/12BOOK.html
NY TIMES "SOLUTION" NOT WHAT FREELANCE WRITERS HAD IN MIND
A Pyrrhic victory for freelance writers? Maybe. After the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled last week that the New York Times (and two other publishers) had
violated the rights of freelancers by not paying them new compensation for
old material made accessible in electronic databases, the Times decided
simply to remove the disputed material entirely. Characterizing the
newspaper's action as a "complete violation of the spirit of the Supreme
Court decision," the writers are insisting that "there is no need to delete
articles" and are filing a new lawsuit. They say they want their works to
remain in the databases, and merely want to be receive what they consider
appropriate compensation. (New York Times 6 Jul 2001)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/07/06/technology/06WRIT.html
MICROSOFT RELENTS ON DESKTOP CONTROL
Admitting "that some provisions in our existing Windows licenses have been
ruled improper by the court," Microsoft says it will now allow PC
manufacturers to change the configuration of the Windows desktop by adding
non-Microsoft products (such as Netscape) and removing Microsoft ones (such
as Internet Explorer). The move may help defuse attempts by competitors or
government officials to block the impending release of XP, the company's new
operating system.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47506-2001Jul11.html
INTERNET FRAUD KEEPS GOING AND GOING
The National Consumer League says that the average loss from Internet fraud
rose from $310 a person in 1999 to $427 last year, when total losses from
Internet fraud reached $3.3 million. New York City's consumer affairs
commissioner Jane Hoffman warns: "Internet fraud runs the gamut from
work-at-home scams to bogus travel and vacation schemes, to securities fraud
and investment scams... For many consumers the Internet can be a virtual
nightmare when it comes to fraud." Hoffman says the five most common
Internet scams are: Web auctions (mainly in the form of goods not delivered
as promised, inflated prices, or fake bids to puff up prices); travel and
vacation schemes with hidden costs; theft of ID numbers, bank data, or
passwords; and investment schemes promising -- but of course failing to
deliver -- huge profits. (AP/Washington Post 15 Jul 2001)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/latestap/A492-2001Jul15.html
USER AGREEMENTS REQUIRE USER CONSENT
A federal judge in New York has ruled that individuals who downloaded free
software from Netscape's Web site are not bound by a "conditions of use"
statement they hadn't read. The reason? The site had not required them to
take positive action -- prior to the download -- to show they agreed to
Netscape's conditions. A lawyer who represented the plaintiffs against
Netscape praised the court's decision: "It applies an ancient and
fundamental principle in a novel context. That is, you can't be bound to
that which you don't agree to." (New York Times 13 Jul 2001)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/technology/13CYBERLAW.html
CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL AGREEMENT: NO HIGH-TECH SURVEILLANCE
Dick Armey, the conservative House Majority Leader, and the left-leaning
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have issued a joint statement
deploring the growing use by law enforcement agencies of high-tech
surveillance tools to monitor ordinary people in public places. Recent news
stories have revealed attempts in Tampa and Virginia Beach to use
face-recognition software to identify passers-by on city streets. An Armey
spokesman calls that trend disturbing, and says that "the American public
doesn't want Big Brother looking over its shoulder." (Newsbytes/USA Today 12
Jul 2001)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/nb/nb2.htm
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My mainframe appears to be crashing, so I am sending out this VERY ROUGH
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Jan 2003 Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives [ivessxxx.xxx]3673
Jan 2003 The 2000 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook#10][No#7][world00x.xxx]3672
[Can anyone find the 1996 & 1997 editions? We have all the rest back to 1990]
Jan 2003 Christie Johnstone, by Charles Reade[Chas Reade#8][crstixxx.xxx]3671
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Jan 2003 Peg Woffington, by Charles Reade[Charles Reade #7][pgwofxxx.xxx]3670
Jan 2003 The Woman-Hater, by Charles Reade[Charles Reade#6][wmnhtxxx.xxx]3669
Jan 2003 The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, Baker[angbnxxx.xxx]3668
[Author's Full Name: Samuel White Baker [Baker #8]
Jan 2003 Wolfville Days, by Alfred Henry Lewis [wlfdzxxx.xxx]3667
Jan 2003 Andreas Hofer, by Lousia Muhlbach [Muhlbach #6] [hoferxxx.xxx]3666
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
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Jan 2003 Maurine and Other Poems, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox[5][maurnxxx.xxx]3665
Jan 2003 Yvette, by Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant [GM#17][yvttexxx.xxx]3664
Jan 2003 The Girl From Keller's, by Harold Bindloss [tgfksxxx.xxx]3663
[Alternate Title From The UK: Sadie's Conquest]
Jan 2003 Oscar Wilde, His Life & Confessions, Frank Harris [owhlcxxx.xxx]3662
Jan 2003 Quotations from The Essays of Montaigne, by Widger[dwqmnxxx.xxx]3661
[#12 in our series of Widger's Quotations by David Widger]
and
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v6 [CM#28][cm28bxxx.xxx]3865
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v5 [CM#27][cm27bxxx.xxx]3864
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v4 [CM#26][cm26bxxx.xxx]3863
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v3 [CM#25][cm25bxxx.xxx]3862
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v2 [CM#24][cm24bxxx.xxx]3861
60
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v1 [CM#23][cm23bxxx.xxx]3860
Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans[CM#22][cm22bxxx.xxx]3859
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v4[CM#21][cm21bxxx.xxx]3858
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v3[CM#20][cm20bxxx.xxx]3857
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v2[CM#19][cm19bxxx.xxx]3856
55
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v1[CM#18][cm18bxxx.xxx]3855
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Subject: [gmonthly] 30th Anniversary Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter" <gmonthly@listserv.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:47:01 -0500 (CDT)
This is Project Gutenberg's Montly Newsletter for Wednesday, July 4, 2001
This Is Our 30th Anniversary Newsletter!
We Are On Schedule To Do 1,000 Etexts This Year!
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
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*Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.*
"When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were
failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work."
George Bernard Shaw
30 years ago today, Project Gutenberg posted the first electronic text
for download on what would eventually become the Internet. . .it was a
simple 5,000 byte file. . .all in CAPS. . .since computers didn't have
lower case yet back then. . .it was the US Declaration of Independence
and one similar Etext was added each year for the rest of the 1970's--
The 1980's saw a great expansion in the size of the Etexts being done,
with two majors works, each 1,000 times larger than the first one. . .
The Bible and The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.
By July of 1991, there were 17 such Etexts including Project Gutenberg
receiving three major Etexts from outside sources: Moby Dick, Roget's
Thesaurus, and The 1990 CIA Factbook. Along with such classics as The
Adventures of Peter Pan and Alice [Wonderland and The Looking Glass] a
new generation of readers had been born.
For each one of those 17 Etexts that were available in 1971, there are
now over 1,000 Etexts listed in the Internet Public Library alone!!!
Just a few years ago, when there were only 10,000, people said this is
the kind of growth pattern that could not continue, but as you read on
below, you will see that it will not only continue, but that we should
still be able to expect 1,000,000 files by 2010 if support continues.
It's hard to realize that Project Gutenberg has been around as long as
Sesame Street and Big Bird, as long as ABC's Wide World Of Sports or a
variety of other continuing events we think of historically, even such
events as the Super Bowl only came into their own about 30 years ago--
believe it or not, the first Super Bowl, even though it was broadcast,
taped, and filmed by BOTH CBS and NBC, all the complete TV recordings,
no kidding, were tossed out, along with most of the other recordings a
world of television and movies has lost throughout the years. . .
Yet not one word of Project Gutenberg has been lost throughout all the
time since July 4th, 1971. . . .
During that time Project Gutenberg has release approximately 3600 text
and other files, for an average of 120 per year, about 1 every 3 days.
Of course, as with all logathrimic growth, half of our work was done a
much shorter while ago with our 100th Etext not coming until then very
end of 1993, officially released in January, 1994. . .even then we all
tried to be a little ahead of schedule for better proofreading. . . .
The 1,000th Etext would come in 1997, and would be Dante in Italian, a
major effort to include the classics of other languages. . .though our
releases that same day included two English translations.
Our 2,000th Etext would continue this trend, with the Spanish classic,
Don Quijote.
We started a new trend of original translations with Siddhartha, since
the original translations were still under copyright monopoly, but the
original German had just expired under US copyright law. Again we did
both the English and German versions, a trend we hope to continue with
more efforts similar to those of our Etexts #2499 and 2500.
For #3000 we started our collection of Proust, in the original French.
And for our recent #3500, we did Ceiriog, in Welsh.
So far we have released Etexts in 16 different languages, and have our
first Greek Etext in progress, as well as one that will include a text
in translation in at least 77 languages.
It looks as though we will complete 1,000 Etexts this year, and soon a
monthly count of 100.
Welcome to the future. . .
in which we hope to post Etexts in all languages, with sites in nearly
all countries, and through which we hope to give away a quadrillion of
these Etext titles to a billion readers around the world.
***
I give my heartfelt thanks to the thousands of volunteers who bring us
these Etexts. . .
Never in the field of education have so many received so much from so few.
Here is a list of the Etexts posted since last month,
these are "cut and pasted" from the weekly Newsletter,
so there will be references to each individual week.
At least one was accidentally listed twice. . . .
For "instant" access to our new Etexts you can surf to:
http://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02
or
ftp://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02
You will need the first five letters of the filenames listed below.
We have posted a significantly improved 11th edition of:
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe V2[Goethe27][7ljw2xxx.xxx]2408
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe V2[Goethe27][8ljw2xxx.xxx]2408
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe V1[Goethe26][7ljw1xxx.xxx]2407
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe V1[Goethe26][8ljw1xxx.xxx]2407
And these are the 29 new Etexts we have posted in the last week.
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Madame de Montespan [CM#17][cm17bxxx.xxx]3854
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v7 [CM#16][cm16bxxx.xxx]3853
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v6 [CM#15][cm15bxxx.xxx]3852
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v5 [CM#14][cm14bxxx.xxx]3851
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v4 [CM#13][cm13bxxx.xxx]3850
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v3 [CM#12][cm12bxxx.xxx]3849
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v2 [CM#11][cm11bxxx.xxx]3848
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v1 [CM#10][cm10bxxx.xxx]3847
Jan 2003 The Rosary, by Florence L. Barclay [rosryxxx.xxx]3659
Jan 2003 The Prospector, by Ralph Connor [Ralph Connor #7][prspcxxx.xxx]3658
Jan 2003 Wild Beasts and their Ways V1 by Samuel W. Baker#7[wbatwxxx.xxx]3657
Jan 2003 Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879, by Samuel W. Baker #6[cyprsxxx.xxx]3656
Jan 2003 The Parent's Assistant, by Maria Edgeworth [prtasxxx.xxx]3655
Jan 2003 Alfred Tennyson, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #33][alftnxxx.xxx]3654
Jan 2003 The Guns of Bull Run, by Joseph A. Altsheler [tgobrxxx.xxx]3653
Jan 2003 History Of The Mackenzies, by Alexander Mackenzie [mcknzxxx.xxx]3652
Jan 2003 The Square Root of 4 To A Million Places[Math #19][ 4sqrt10.zip]3651
[Due to it's peculiar nature, this number presented in .zip format only ;-) ]
Jan 2003 Selections From American Poetry, by Marg. Carhart [apoetxxx.xxx]3650
[With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier]
[Author's Full Name: Margeret Sprague Carhart]
Jan 2003 The Dwelling Place of Light /All/Winston Churchill[wc05vxxx.xxx]3649
Jan 2003 The Dwelling Place of Light, V3, Winston Churchill[wc04vxxx.xxx]3648
Jan 2003 The Dwelling Place of Light, V2, Winston Churchill[wc03vxxx.xxx]3647
Jan 2003 The Dwelling Place of Light, V1, Winston Churchill[wc02vxxx.xxx]3646
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Jan 2003 L'Etourdi, par Moliere [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin][#4[xtrdixxx.xxx]3645
Jan 2003 Vie de Moliere[Jean-Baptiste Poquelin], Voltaire#2[xviemxxx.xxx]3644
[We might need help preserving the accents in these, please email me if. . .]
Jan 2003 Quotations from Albert Paine's Writings, by Widger[dwqabxxx.xxx]3643
[Full: Quotations from Albert B. Paine's Writings, #11 by David Widger]
Jan 2003 The Belgian Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins[Perkins3][bgtwnxxx.xxx]3642
Jan 2003 Who Cares?, by Cosmo Hamilton [caresxxx.xxx]3641
Jan 2003 Literary Taste, by Arnold Bennett [Bennett #3][tastexxx.xxx]3640
Jan 2003 Diary Of Pedestrian In Cashmere & Thibet by Wright[dpcatxxx.xxx]3639
[Full: Diary Of A Pedestrian In Cashmere and Thibet, by William Henry Knight]
[Original Release Date: July, 2002 [Etext #3309]
[RErelease Date: January, 2003 [Etext #3639]
[We accidentally released TWO Etexts #3309]
--=={ WEEKLY UPDATE PROGRESS }==--
Since we started sending out weekly newsletters on 4/11/01, we have posted
253 new Etexts; for those 13 newsletters, we have averaged 19.46 Etexts
posted per week; we need to to continue to average 19.23 Etexts per week
in order to publish 1,000 Etexts this year.
WEEK ##
======== ==
07/04/01 29
06/27/01 22
06/20/01 18
06/13/01 17
06/06/01 20
05/31/01 18
05/23/01 16
05/16/01 18
05/09/01 18
05/02/01 39
04/25/01 15
04/18/01 11
04/11/01 12
============
3 months 253
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Here are the 23 new Etexts and 2 improved Etexts
[23 Etexts per week would yield 1196 per year]
!!!!!!!Please note these files are in our new /etext03 directory!!!!!!!
We averaged about 18.83 per week since we started weekly newsletters.
12 Newsletters and 223 Etexts; we need to average 19.23 for 1,000/yr.
UPDATED EDITIONS:
Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [Our English Edition] [siddhxxx.xxx]2500
[We have finally reached a good enough translation to call our 10th edition!]
We have posted a significantly improved 11th edition of:
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe [Goethe26][7ljw1xxx.xxx]2407
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe [Goethe26][8ljw1xxx.xxx]2407
And here are the 23 new Etexts for this week:
[23 per week would yield 1196 per year]
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz [CM#09][cm09bxxx.xxx]3846
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v4 [CM#08][cm08bxxx.xxx]3845
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v3 [CM#07][cm07bxxx.xxx]3844
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v2 [CM#06][cm06bxxx.xxx]3843
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v1 [CM#05][cm05bxxx.xxx]3842
Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois [CM#04][cm04bxxx.xxx]3841
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v3 [CM#03][cm03bxxx.xxx]3840
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v2 [CM#02][cm02bxxx.xxx]3839
Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v1 [CM#01][cm01bxxx.xxx]3838
[From: The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series]
Jan 2003 The Devil's Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw [#20][tdvldxxx.xxx]3638
Jan 2003 The Garden Of Allah, by Robert Hichens[Hichens #4][allahxxx.xxx]3637
Jan 2003 The Fall of the Niebelungs [Author Unknown] [nieblxxx.xxx]3636
Jan 2003 Mother, by Kathleen Norris [mothrxxx.xxx]3635
Jan 2003 The Guilty River, by Wilkie Collins[W.Collins #27][gltrvxxx.xxx]3634
Jan 2003 Jezebel's Daughter, by Wilkie Collins[Collins #26][jzbelxxx.xxx]3633
Jan 2003 Poor Miss Finch, by Wilkie Collins[W. Collins #25][finchxxx.xxx]3632
Jan 2003 On the Significance of Science and Art, by Toltoy [sgnsaxxx.xxx]3631
[Also list under variants Lyof and Tolstoi]
Jan 2003 What to do? by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Tolstoy #13][whttdxxx.xxx]3630
Contains:
To Women
On Labor And Luxury
Jan 2003 The Titan, by Theodore Dreiser[Theodore Dreiser#3][titanxxx.xxx]3629
Jan 2003 The Kingdom of Love, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox[EWW#4][kgdlvxxx.xxx]3628
Jan 2003 Life of Bunyan, by James Hamilton[Jas. Hamilton#1][lfbunxxx.xxx]3627
[From "The Work of the Puritan Divines"]
Jan 2003 Widger's Quotations from Abraham Lincoln's Writing[dwqalxxx.xxx]3626
[Full: Widger's Quotations from Abraham Lincoln's Writings, by David Widger]
***
Here are the 15 new Etext for January, 2003
Jan 2003 Honore de Balzac, by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet [hblzcxxx.xxx]3625
[This file is available as hblzc10.txt and .zip and also in HTML hblzc10h.zip]
Jan 2003 Chaucer, by Adolphus William Ward [chacrxxx.xxx]3624
Jan 2003 The Golden Bough, by James George Frazer [boughxxx.xxx]3623
Jan 2003 The Duke's Children, by Anthony Trollope [AT#15][dkchlxxx.xxx]3622
Jan 2003 Peg O' My Heart, by J. Hartley Manners [pgomyxxx.xxx]3621
20
Jan 2003 South American Geology, by Charles Darwin [CD #17][smcngxxx.xxx]3620
[Also listed as: Geological Observations On South America]
Jan 2003 Cousin Maude, by Mary J. Holmes [maudexxx.xxx]3619
Jan 2003 Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw[Shaw #19][rmsmnxxx.xxx]3618
Jan 2003 Quotations From Dumas Celebrated Crimes, by Widger[dwqdcxxx.xxx]3617
Jan 2003 O'Conors of Castle Conor, by Anthony Trollope[#14][oconrxxx.xxx]3616
15
Jan 2003 John Bull on the Guadalquivir, by Anthony Trollope[jbgudxxx.xxx]3615
Jan 2003 An Exhortation to Peace and Unity, John Bunyan[#7][expcuxxx.xxx]3614
[This work is incorrectly attributed to Bunyan, but no other author is known]
Jan 2003 Miscellaneous Pieces, by John Bunyan [Bunyan #6[bnmscxxx.xxx]3613
Jan 2003 Second Shetland Truck System Report, by Guthrie [truckxxx.xxx]3611
[Guthrie was a Sheriff who prepared the report for a Royal Commision]
and we have now completed the non-reserved sections of 2002
[Please note that we have whittled down the reserveds to 66,
total, for the total 31+ years of our index. . .we usually
have averaged somewhere around 2% of our numbers reserved.]
Here are the last five Etexts for December, 2002
Dec 2002 The Complete Essays of Montaigne, Cotton [MN#20][mn20vxxx.xxx]3600
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V19, 1877, Cotton [MN#19][mn19vxxx.xxx]3599
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V18, 1877, Cotton [MN#18][mn18vxxx.xxx]3598
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V17, 1877, Cotton [MN#17][mn17vxxx.xxx]3597
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V16, 1877, Cotton [MN#16][mn16vxxx.xxx]3596
***
We have posted a significantly improved 12th edition of:
Jul 1992 The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells[Herbert George2][warw12xx.xxx] 36
We have posted a significantly improved 11th edition of:
Jun 2002 The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper [JFC #7][dslyr11x.xxx]3285
Sep 1994 Flower Fables, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #1] [ffabl11x.xxx] 163
We have posted a slightly improved 10th editin of:
Jun 1997 Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper #1 [mohic10x.xxx] 940
Feb 1995 The Call of the Wild, by Jack London [London #1] [callw10x.xxx] 215
***
***
Here are the 17 new Etexts and 4 improved Dumas Musketeers Etexts
[17 Etexts per week would yield 884 per year]
Jan 2003 John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw#18[jbullxxx.xxx]3612
Jan 2003 Second Shetland Truck System Report, Angus Johnson[truckxxx.xxx]3611
[Truck is a term similar to barter, I would also index under barter]
Jan 2003 The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Yonge[tdcoaxxx.xxx]3610
Jan 2003 To-morrow? by Victoria Cross [Also: Tomorrow?] [tmrrwxxx.xxx]3609
Jan 2003 Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Rob't Tressell[rggdpxxx.xxx]3608
[Full Listing: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell]
Jan 2003 Ismailia, by Samuel W. Baker[Samuel White Baker#5][ismlaxxx.xxx]3607
Jan 2003 Antonina, by Wilkie Collins [Wilkie Collins #24][ntnnaxxx.xxx]3606
05
Jan 2003 On The Firing Line, by A. C. Ray and H. B. Fuller [frnglxxx.xxx]3605
[Authors' Full Names: Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller]
Jan 2003 Jailed for Freedom, by Doris Stevens [j4frexxx.xxx]3604
Jan 2003 Quotations From Guy de Maupassant, by David Widger[dwqgmxxx.xxx]3603
!!!!!!!Please note the above files are in our new /etext03 directory!!!!!!!
****Please note that the entire 2002 catalogue is now filled or reserved***
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V15, 1877, Cotton [MN#15][mn15vxxx.xxx]3595
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V14, 1877, Cotton [MN#14][mn14vxxx.xxx]3594
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V13, 1877, Cotton [MN#13][mn13vxxx.xxx]3593
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V12, 1877, Cotton [MN#12][mn12vxxx.xxx]3592
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V11, 1877, Cotton [MN#11][mn11vxxx.xxx]3591
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V4, by Richard Burton[41001xxx.xxx]3438
[These are in 7 and 8 bit unaccented and accented versions]
[Filenames are x1001xx7.txt and .zip and x1001xx8.txt and .zip]
[X will be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f and g]
[Full Title: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night, Volumes 1 - 16]
[Also listed under:
The Arabian Nights
A Thousand and One Nights. . .and. . .A Thousand and One Arabian Nights]
Jan 2002 Project Gutenberg Dumas Commentary, by John Bursey[vbcomxxx.xxx]3010
[The following are now available in significantly improved 11th editions as
both xxxxx11.txt or xxxxx11.zip and xxxxx11h.htm or xxxxx11h.zip Etexts]
Aug 2001 The Man in the Iron Mask[The Novel]Dumas, Pere #28[nmaskxxx.xxx]2759
[This is the novel entitled The Man in the Iron Mask. The essay is #2751]
Jul 2001 Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere #9[luisexxx.xxx]2710
Jun 2001 Ten Years Later, by Alexandre Dumas[Dumas Pere #8][tenyrxxx.xxx]2681
Apr 2001 The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, Pere[vicomxxx.xxx]2609
[We are releasing these as BOTH xxxxx10.txt AND xxxxx10h.htm and in zip files]
Please see the introduction which describes the various books of this title,
and how the various editions were published, and how they have been named,
and what in what order to read them.
Also see:
Mar 1998 Ten Years Later, by Alexandre Dumas[Dumas Pere #3][2muskxxx.xxx]1258
and
We discovered a duplication in filenames we thought we had fixed long ago:
Apr 1997 Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis #2[ironmxxx.xxx] 876
These ironm10.txt and ironm10.zip files are now liron10.txt and liron10.zip]
Apr 1997 Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis #2[lironxxx.xxx] 876
The novel The Man In The Iron Mask by Dumas stays ironm10.txt & ironm10.zip]
[It was easier this way because this file has four times as many versions]
For the moment I am leaving BOTH ironm10.* files AND the liron10.* files,
until enough time has passed for the indexes and catalogs to be updated]
***
We have a total of 20 new files to download this week:
[This would yield a total of 1040 new files per year.]
Jan 2003 Cupid's Understudy, by Edward Salisbury Field [cpdndxxx.xxx]3602
Jan 2003 The Captives, by Hugh Walpole [Hugh Walpole #3][cptvsxxx.xxx]3601
!!!!!!!Please note the above files are in our new /etext03 directory!!!!!!!
***Please note that the December, 2002 catalogue is filled, and the***
****reserved portion should be completed within the next two weeks.***
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V10, 1877, Cotton [MN#10][mn10vxxx.xxx]3590
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V9, 1877, Cotton [MN#09][mn09vxxx.xxx]3589
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V8, 1877, Cotton [MN#08][mn08vxxx.xxx]3588
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V7, 1877, Cotton [MN#07][mn07vxxx.xxx]3587
Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V6, 1877, Cotton [MN#06][mn06vxxx.xxx]3586
This should complete our November listings:
Nov 2002 La Mere Bauche, by Anthony Trollope [Trollope #12][merbuxxx.xxx]3550
Nov 2002 Cowley's Essays, by Abraham Cowley [cowesxxx.xxx]3549
Nov 2002 The Pharisee And Publican, by John Bunyan[Bunyan5][pharpxxx.xxx]3548
Nov 2002 See America First, by Orville O. Hiestand [cusa1xxx.xxx]3547
Nov 2002 The Eureka Stockade, by Carboni Raffaello[Carboni][rkstkxxx.xxx]3546
[Wrote as Carboni Raffaello, however Carboni was really Raffaello Carboni]
Nov 2002 The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith #3[cpwogxxx.xxx]3545
Nov 2002 How He Lied to Her Husband, by George Bernard Shaw[lied2xxx.xxx]3544
Nov 2002 Heartbreak House, by George Bernard Shaw [GBS #16][hrtbkxxx.xxx]3543
Nov 2002 Quotations of Jacques Casanova, by David Widger #6[dwqjcxxx.xxx]3542
Nov 2002 Thoughts Evoked By The Census Of Moscow by Tolstoi[tecomxxx.xxx]3541
Nov 2002 Article On The Census In Moscow, by Leo Tolstoi/11[ancimxxx.xxx]3540
[Also list under Lyof and Tolstoi, middle inital is N.]
Nov 2002 The Love-Chase, by James Sheridan Knowles [JSK #2][lvchsxxx.xxx]3539
Nov 2002 The Americanization of Edward Bok, by Edward Bok [ewbokxxx.xxx]3538
[The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, by Edward William Bok]
If you sent in a file you don't see here, or sent in a revision, or xeroxes
for our copyright research, and haven't heard from me let me know. Most of
these should only take a few days.
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on FTP, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid
torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want
to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it
on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
(Albert Einstein)
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