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Subject: Anniversary Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Project Gutenberg mailing list" <gutnberg@listserv.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:41:07 -0500 (CDT)
oThis is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter for Wednesday, July 5th, 2000*
!!!!!!!Yesterday was our 30th Fourth of July on the Internet!!!!!!!
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This "cost" is down from $3.77 when we had 2650 Etexts in June
This "cost" is down from $3.92 when we had 2550 Etexts in May
This "cost" is down from $4.00 when we had 2500 Etexts in April
Can you imagine each one of thousands of books reduced by 30 cents???
For The Future
We just barely managed to meet our Site Guru's challenge of 50 Etexts
in the past month, coming in at 54 new Etexts and 4 improved editions.
Thus, you may notice that there are more than 40 Etexts labelled "July
2001" as I am hoping we will again meet that challenge next month, and
thus will accept his challenge to permanently make our goal 50/month!
[If you had asked me 10 days ago, I would have said we would need some
big push just to get to 40 new Etexts since the last Newsletter. . . ]
Table of Contents:
Headline News
Requests For Assistance
Comments About Our New Files
Comments About Our Improved Files
Index Listings for Improved Files
Index Listings for the New Files
Notes from Edupage and News Scan
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Headline News
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FTP vs HTTP
Please note:
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usually via an announcement only for our proofreaders, but
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If you are interested in INSTANT access to our Etexts, FTP
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will be easy for you to download a file literally a second
after it has reached our sites.
This is a VERY good reason to save these Newsletters. . .
Requests For Assistance
We propose to post Bengali books (in Bengali script) soon.
Since OCR-scanning software is apparently not yet available
in Indian languages, initially short books are proposed to
be added by manual data entry. Volunteers are invited to
contact Mr. Amitananda Das <amitdascal@yahoo.com>, cc:me
Can anyone find a copy of:
The Log of Christopher Columbus
translated by John Boyd Thacher, 1903
We have an Etext, we need a clearable edition.
Short Stories
We have had a policy that unless there are special exceptions,
that we should not post items whose contents are under 25-35K,
and in some instances we have posted collections whose elements
are, indeed, longer than this required size. We have received
several requests to make these available as individual Etexts,
in the same manner as we made the Shakespeare works available.
Unless anyone has strong objections we will do the same with a
few of our previously released collections, so they can be more
easily downloaded, indexed, found, searched, and researched.
In particular, we have an interest in doing Sherlock Holmes,
since we started Holmes long before such indexing became an issue.
So. . .if we have any volunteers interested. . . .
"Watson, come here, I need you."
[Does this ring a Bell?]
We need a Dr. Watson to index the chronicles of Mr. Holmes.
[See our Etext #221B for the first clew.]
Request for proofing for Long Live the King, by Mary Roberts Rinehart
[This was a VERY tough scan, and I know we missed some of the errors]
We posted our first Welsh Etext, and we need anyone who is fluent in
Welsh and interested in helping do other Welsh eTexts to contact us.
Please email David Price <ccx074@coventry.ac.uk> and cc:me.
Someone named Len wrote me about Guy de Maupassant, etc.
I have not been able to contact him. . .didn't leave a
last name or email address. . .is in Danvers, MA. . . .
We will shortly be releasing a number of Etexts by
Louisa May Alcott. We need someone to write up a
blurb describing how some of the books fit together
as continuing stories. This *could* be just a list
of which are sequels, etc.
As a Fellow of the Internet Archive, I am looking for libraries
that might be for sale. . .tens of thousands of books. . . .
Even libraries that might be selling off just portions. . . .
We are revising our largest access site:
sailor.gutenberg.org or 198.76.201.198
If you are an experienced web designer
or indexer, please take a look and let
me know if you are willing to help.
Comments About Our New Files
We are now posting a series of books in Welsh,
the first is listed below.
We have only one more book to go to complete
the Three Musketeers series, by Dumas, Pere,
in English. Would love to do them in French!
Index Listings for Improved Files
Rereleases: [These are always version 11, except where otherwise indicated]:
Mar 1998 Father Goriot, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #8] [frgrtxxx.xxx]1237
Nov 2000 The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot [marboxxx.xxx]2401
[We are releasing a new version of this in .rtf the filename is marbo10r.zip]
Jan 1994 A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens [CD#1] [2city10x.xxx] 98
[This is 2city12.txt and .zip. . .a number of errors have been corrected, but
I am sure there are still many more bad=had, be=he, etc. . .please help us!!]
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 21 [21hgpxxx.xxx]2221
[This is version 11, listed as "complete," but I presume changes will occur.]
Index Listings for the New Files
Jul 2001 Gwaith Twm o'r Nant (Cyfrol II.) [In Welsh] [twmntxxx.xxx]2734
Jul 2001 The Works of Twm o'r Nant (Volume II) [In Welsh] [twmntxxx.xxx]2734
[Two versions, twmnt10h.htm = HTML accents, twmnt10.txt plain][and zip files]
Jul 2001 Romano Lavo-Lil, by George Borrow [Geo. Borrow #8][rmlavxxx.xxx]2733
Jul 2001 Romany Dictionary, by George Borrow [G. Borrow #8][rmlavxxx.xxx]2733
Jul 2001 Gypsy Dictionary, by George Borrow [G. Borrow #8][rmlavxxx.xxx]2733
Jul 2001 Ballads, by William Makepeace Thackeray [WMT #20][8bwmtxxx.xxx]2732
Jul 2001 Ballads, by William Makepeace Thackeray [WMT #20][7bwmtxxx.xxx]2732
[Two versions, 8bwmt10.* with accents and 7bwmt10.* without accents; and zip]
Jul 2001 The Christmas Books, by W. M. Thackeray [WMT #19][chmsbxxx.xxx]2731
Jul 2001 The Christmas Books, by M. A. Titmarsh [WMT #19][chmsbxxx.xxx]2731
[M. A. Titmarsh is a pseudonym of William Makepeace Thackeray--repeated use.]
CONTAINS:
Mrs. Perkins's Ball
Our Street
Dr. Birch and his Young Friends
The Kickleburys on the Rhine
The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo
Also see:
May 1997 The Rose and the Ring, by Thackeray [Thackeray #2][rsrngxxx.xxx] 897
Jul 2001 Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard [H.R. Haggard #17][loddsxxx.xxx]2730
This is our second version [lodds10a.txt and .zip] of Long Odds, also see:
Oct 1999 Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard [H. R. Haggard #8][loddsxxx.xxx]1918
Jul 2001 A Tale of Three Lions, by H. Rider[HR Haggard #16][3lionxxx.xxx]2729
Jul 2001 Hunter Quatermain's Story, by H. Rider[Haggard#15][qstryxxx.xxx]2728
Jul 2001 Allan's Wife, by H. Rider Haggard[H.R.Haggard #14][awifexxx.xxx]2727
Jul 2001 Morning Star, by H. Rider Haggard [HR Haggard #13][mstarxxx.xxx]2722
Jul 2001 Eric Brighteyes, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #12][ericbxxx.xxx]2721
Jul 2001 The Pension Beaurepas, by Henry James [James #35][penbrxxx.xxx]2720
Jul 2001 Greville Fane, by Henry James [Henry James #34][gfanexxx.xxx]2719
Jul 2001 The Chaperon, by Henry James [Henry James #33][chprnxxx.xxx]2718
Jul 2001 Nona Vincent, by Henry James [Henry James #32][nonavxxx.xxx]2717
Jul 2001 Sir Dominick Ferrand, by Henry James [James #31][frrndxxx.xxx]2716
Jul 2001 The Real Thing, by Henry James [Henry James #30][rlthgxxx.xxx]2715
Jul 2001 Long Live the King, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [#15][llkngxxx.xxx]2714
Jul 2001 Maiwa's Revenge, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #11][maiwaxxx.xxx]2713
Jul 2001 The War of the Little Hand, by H. Rider Haggard 11[maiwaxxx.xxx]2713
[Alternate title, same book]
Jul 2001 A Drift from Redwood Camp, by Bret Harte[Harte#39][adfrcxxx.xxx]2712
Jul 2001 A Phyllis Of The Sierras, by Bret Harte[Harte #38][apotsxxx.xxx]2711
Jul 2001 Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere #9[luisexxx.xxx]2710
Jul 2001 Foma Gordeev/Gordyeeff, by Maxim Gorky [Gorky #3][fomagxxx.xxx]2709
Jul 2001 The Man Who Was Afraid, by Maxim Gorky [Gorky #3][fomagxxx.xxx]2709
[One book: title variants and spelling variants]
Jul 2001 Colomba, by Prosper Merimee, Trans. by Mary Loyd [clmbaxxx.xxx]2708
Jul 2001 The History of Herodotus V1 by Herodotus/ Macaulay[1hofhxxx.xxx]2707
Also see:
Jan 2001 The History of Herodotus V2 by Herodotus/ Macaulay[2hofhxxx.xxx]2456
[Note: We posted V2 before we had V1, and this is G. C. Macaulay, not T. B.]
Jul 2001 The Bravo of Venice - A Romance, by M. G. Lewis [brvenxxx.xxx]2706
Jul 2001 Sally Dows, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #37] [sallyxxx.xxx]2705
Jul 2001 Washington and his Comrades in Arms, George Wrong [waciaxxx.xxx]2704
Jul 2001 The Argonauts of North Liberty, by Bret Harte[#37][taonlxxx.xxx]2703
Righteous Brothers
Jul 2001 The Lion's Skin, by Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini #8] [lnsknxxx.xxx]2702
Jul 2001 Moby Dick, by Herman Melville [new edition *.10b] [mobydxxx.xxx]2701
[This is a vastly improved edition over previous attempts we have had. . . !]
Jul 2001 Medical Essays, by Oliver Wendell Holmes [OWH #9] [medicxxx.xxx]2700
Jul 2001 Pages From and Old Volume of Life, by OW Holmes #8[pagesxxx.xxx]2699
Jul 2001 A Mortal Antipathy, by Oliver Wendell Holmes[OWH7][antipxxx.xxx]2698
Jul 2001 The Guardian Angel, by Oliver Wendell Holmes[OWH6][angelxxx.xxx]2697
Jul 2001 Elsie Venner, by Oliver Wendell Holmes [Holmes #5][elsiexxx.xxx]2696
[Please note these are by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior, not the jurist, Jr.]
Jul 2001 Jeff Briggs's Love Story, by Bret Harte[Harte #36][jfblsxxx.xxx]2695
4
Jul 2001 I and My Chimney, by Herman Melville [Melville #4][chmnyxxx.xxx]2694
Jul 2001 Greyfriars Bobby, Eleanor Atkinson [bobbyxxx.xxx]2693
Jul 2001 A Protegee Of Jack Hamlin's by Bret Harte [BH #35][apojhxxx.xxx]2692
Jul 2001 Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp, by Annie Roe Carr or [nsapcxxx.xxx]2691
Jul 2001 The Old Lumberman's Secret, by Annie Roe Carr [nsapcxxx.xxx]2691
[One book, two titles]
Jun 2001 Coral Reefs, by Charles Darwin[Charles Darwin #11][coralxxx.xxx]2690
Jun 2001 Over the Teacups, by Oliver W. Holmes [OWH Sr. #4][teacpxxx.xxx]2689
Also see in this particular series of books:
Jun 2001 The Poet at the Breakfast Table by O.W. Holmes #3][ptabtxxx.xxx]2666
Jun 2001 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, by OW Holmes[prabtxxx.xxx]2665
Dec 1996 Autocrat of Breakfast Table, Oliver Wendell Holmes[aofbtxxx.xxx] 751
Jun 2001 The Clue of the Twisted Candles, by Edgar Wallace [clotcxxx.xxx]2688
Jun 2001 The Snare, by Rafael Sabatini [Rafael Sabatini #7][snarexxx.xxx]2687
Jun 2001 The Book of Snobs, by William Makepeace Thackeray [snobsxxx.xxx]2686
Jun 2001 The Way to Peace, by Margaret Deland [wy2pcxxx.xxx]2685
Jun 2001 Five Tales, by John Galsworthy[John Galsworthy #9][5talexxx.xxx]2684
Contains:
THE FIRST AND LAST
A STOIC
THE APPLE TREE
THE JURYMAN
INDIAN SUMMER OF A FORSYTE [Also posted as Etext #2594]
Which contains:
Indian Summer of a Forsyte
In Chancery
Jun 2001 Saint's Progress, by John Galsworthy [John G. #8][saintxxx.xxx]2683
Jun 2001 Henri III et sa Cour by Alexandre Dumas Pere [#9][h3escxxx.xxx]2682
[This Etext is in French]
Jun 2001 Ten Years Later, by Alexandre Dumas[Dumas Pere #8][tenyrxxx.xxx]2681
We are releasing this as BOTH tenyr10.txt AND tenry10h.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. [This is #8 in OUR series of Dumas]
Also see:
Mar 1998 Ten Years Later, by Alexandre Dumas[Dumas Pere #3][2muskxxx.xxx]1258
End of June Newsletter***cutoff/break/
Notes from Edupage and News Scan
ORANGE BUYS CYBERBABE SITE
British wireless operator Orange has purchased the Ananova news Web site
from the U.K.'s Press Association for US$144 million in cash. Ananova is
home to the world's first computer-generated newscaster of the same name --
a hip, virtual "cyberbabe" with aquamarine hair who acts as the "human" face
for the media company's real-time news reporting. Orange CEO Hans Snook says
Ananova is a key component of the company's strategy to develop its own
overall portal platform. (Fox News 5 Jul 2000)
http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/0705/t_rt_0705_3.sml
JUSTICE FILES TO BLOCK WORLDCOM-SPRINT MERGER
The U.S. Justice Department has weighed in against the proposed $115-billion
merger of WorldCom and Sprint, spelling almost certain doom for the deal and
signaling that the era of U.S. high-tech mega-mergers is reaching its
limits. Antitrust chief Joel Klein said the merger would have left 80% of
the U.S. long-distance business in the hands of WorldCom and AT&T: "This
merger would reduce the big three to a big two -- too few." WorldCom and
Sprint say they're considering their next move, but have displayed little
appetite for a long, drawn-out litigation process. "The options are to go to
court or walk away," says one person close to the situation. Although the
companies had offered to divest Sprint's long-distance and Internet backbone
businesses as a condition of the merger, they were not prepared to comply
with the Justice Department's latest request for the disposal of all of
Sprint's local operations as well. (Financial Times 28 Jun 2000)
http://www.ft.com/
PALM GOES PROPRIETARY IN WIRELESS VENTURE
Palm is joining the scramble for wireless Internet customers in Europe, but
is using its own wireless "Web clipping" technology to reformat text for the
small screen rather than the widely adopted wireless Internet protocol
(WAP). The move pits Palm against European wireless network operators and
mobile phone hardware manufacturers in a battle for the rapidly growing
MEuropean wireless services market. To generate a broader customer base, the
subscription fee, will be offered for free in Europe this summer.
(Financial Times 26 Jun 2000) http://www.ft.com/
WEBVAN SWALLOWS HOMEGROCER.COM
[If they are not yet even reaching a dozen areas, how come $1.2 billion?]
In a further consolidation of dot-com retailers, Webvan Group is acquiring
rival HomeGrocer.com in a stock deal valued at $1.2 billion. The combined
company, which will operate under the Webvan Group name, will reach a total
of 13 U.S. metropolitan areas by the end of this year, up from nine
currently served by the two companies. (Reuters/TechWeb 26 Jun 2000)
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters-finance/REU20000626S0003
MICROSOFT "BETS THE COMPANY" ON THE INTERNET
Announcing that his company's new strategy will be to think of software as
a service delivered over the Internet rather than as a discrete product
delivered in shrink-wrapped boxes, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said: "You
could say it's a 'bet the company' thing." The new strategic platform will
be called Microsoft.Net (or .Net for short) and will take several years to
implement fully. If the government's anti-trust case doesn't force breakup
of Microsoft before that time, the current division between the Windows
operating system and the rest of the company will no longer exist.
(Washington Post 23 Jun 2000)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44043-2000Jun22.html
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Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter PT 1
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Project Gutenberg mailing list" <gutnberg@listserv.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:22:10 -0500 (CDT)
**This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter for Wednesday, June 7, 2001**
[This is such a long Newsletter is is broken into 2 parts, this is #1]
[This Newsletter actually contains over 2 1/2 months worth of Etexts.]
[I put most of the news items in the next part, other than headliners]
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy
*Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.*
A RECORD BREAKING MONTH, WITH OVER 100 NEW OR IMPROVED FILES UPLOADED!
[More below on this, and my apologies if this Newsletter appears to be
cut and pasted a little bit, because it was. . .I have posted a dozen,
or more, Etexts just while I was writing it, and I may not have pasted
everything in the best possible place, or gone back to fill in a quite
perfect transition between paragraphs. . .my apologies. . . .
With 2600 eTexts online it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers
gaining a nominal value of $3.85 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!]
Last month at 2550 it was $3.92, and now at 2650 it is $3.77. . .it is
amazing how fast we are making progress. . . .
This month our volunteers have really outdone themselves!!! Last month
we managed to post 16 or so of the April, 2001 Etexts, and not only do
we have all of the April Etexts completed. . .AND all the May Etexts!!
We also have over half of the June Etexts already online, which brings
us just about to one year ahead of schedule!!!
Last month we had posted to approximately Etext #2586 and we are up to
#2679 as of this writing. . .that's 93 Etexts in one month!!!!!!! And
that's not counting the updated postings of 8 more, so 101 new files!*
Twice!!! as many as we were scheduled to do even with our new schedule
of 40 Etext per month. This has prompted Greg Newby, our Mirror Sites
Guru, to state that we should officially move to a new schedule of 50!
*Actually we have more than 101 new files, as we did one reserved from
March. . .Poems and Tales from Romania is finally online, though it is
will continually be added to, hopefully for many decades to come. . .!
And also the conclusion of The Circus Boys Series, making 102. . . .if
I have been counting correctly, which is unlikely, as I have posted 12
books since I started writing this Newsletter. . . .
THE CHALLENGE FROM GREG NEWBY
As many of you know, Greg put our Etexts on our three main sites while
I was away, and will be doing so again a month from now. So. . .I was
struck by the coincidence. . .and have accepted his challenge in a way
that is most poetic. . . .
Many of you also know that July 4th is our 30th 4th of July on the Net
. . .completing our 29th year and starting our 30th. . .so I figured a
good way to accept Greg's challenge would be to have HIM post 50 books
between now and the 4th of July. [Actually the 5th of July, since the
Newsletters go out on the first Wednesday of the month. And, in order
to help him with this goal, I will work most of June with him, since I
am delaying my next trip to Romania to coincide with the end of a part
of the academic year there [thesis defenses, and all].
So. . .if our volunteers can keep feeding us materials to work with at
this rate, we will officially move our schedule to 50 per month, as of
our 30th 4th of July on the Internet, on an experimental basis. :-)
Here is a note from Greg, to encourage fulfillment of the challenge:
Haven't been in touch lately?? If you are working on a new etext, but
you have not been contacted with one of Project Gutenberg's Directors,
why not send us a note? We like to hear from you, even if you are not
done with your etext yet. This helps us to coordinate volunteers, and
keep track of what new etexts we can expect in the future.
[He even matched my margins, no kidding!]
You can reach him, and our Production Directors, as follows:
John Bickers <jbickers@ihug.co.nz>,
Greg Newby <gbnewby@ils.unc.edu>,
David Price <ccx074@coventry.ac.uk>,
Sue Asscher <asschers@dingoblue.net.au>
We need some new Directors, Supervisors, or whatever to support our US
volunteers. . .this can take as little or as much time as you like.
***
I should add, for the record, that there ARE some numbers that haven't
been filled. . .approximately 1% of them have been reserved, and a few
have accidentally had the same edition placed in two separate numbers.
All in all, since we never announce the Etexts until a month's are out
there for download, we are about on the scheduled numbers you see, but
I like to be totally honest about how many we have, so I always take a
1% deduction when giving these figures out.
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Table of Contents:
Headline News
Requests For Assistance
Comments About Our New Files
Index Listings for the New Files
Notes from Edupage and News Scan
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Headline News
Internet Passes 300,000,000 users according to the New York Times,
see Newsscan article below. This is still only about 10% of the
total number of computers. . .now estimated at over 3,000,000,000.
That means if everyone shared computers, each person could sit alone
at a computer for 12 hours each day. . .or if each computer sat two
people, everyone could be at a computer all the time. . . . Of course
the computers are concentrated in one area, and the people in another.
and
[Gee, I wonder where he [or Gore] got this idea. . .hee hee]
CLINTON SEES NET AS CURE FOR WORLD POVERTY
In a speech to a conference in Berlin, President Clinton suggested that the
Internet is a key to improving the economic well-being of the underdeveloped
world: "If you have a printer and a computer in poor village, you don't have
to be able to afford textbooks anymore. It's a far more efficient way for
government to spread universal information" and to provide a way to allow
poor people to market native arts and crafts to increase their income
dramatically. (AP/USA Today 5 Jun 2000)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti017.htm
CYBER PIRATES
A company called Havenco has built what it calls a "data haven" on an
abandoned military platform in the sea, six miles off Britain's coast, in
order to offer communications services to clients who want to avoid
monitoring by governmental authorities. Declaring his small fortress a
sovereign country beyond the reach of British law, Havenco co-founder and
chief executive Sean Hastings, a 32-year-old U.S. citizen, says, "Technology
has made it easier to move information and hide information. Soon it will be
impossible to trace where money is and who has money, and that will
eventually force governments to move away from income taxes and toward
consumption taxes." (New York Times 4 Jun 2000)
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/04have.html
STARTUP OFFERS LEGAL ALTERNATIVE TO NAPSTER
Pointera, a Palo Alto-based startup that launches today, says its service is
unique in that it enables portals and users to share files, including
digital music files, legally through a standard Web browser. The service is
conceptually similar to Napster and Gnutella, but rather than copying the
desired files, the user "shares" the file, which remains on the original
computer. "We enable the streaming of media files as opposed to people just
downloading," says CEO Manish Vij. "What this means is you can just hit play
from your hard disk instead of hitting copy. If you're simply playing that's
the same as going to someone's house and watching a movie and is still
covered by fair use under the copyright laws." The Pointera Search Engine
enables portal servers to work directly with individual PCs for
file-sharing. "The real issue here is that the technology essentially moves
beyond MP3," says Gartner Group's Chris Le Tocq. "The Pointera technology is
a business application, which we've never had before. Groups of people can
exchange files and work together... The interesting thing here is that this
an instant process, it allows for peer to peer architecture. This is very
different than the hierarchical architecture found on the Web today."
(Internet.com 5 Jun 2000)
E-BOOK SALES WILL SNAG 10% OF MARKET IN 2005
According to a study by Andersen Consulting, sales of electronic books will
claim a total of 10% of the book market by 2005, with sales of $2.3 billion.
About one third of those sales, or $700 million worth, will cannibalize
books on paper. The trend will open up book publishing opportunities to more
unknown authors, with online sales of as few as 100 being considered
successful. The cost of creating an e-book runs only a few hundred dollars
or less. (Reuters/TechWeb 1 Jun 2000)
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters/REU20000601S0006
Requests For Assistance
We need E.T.A. Hoffman books in English for David Bridson
<david@bridson.co.uk>. . .THIRD REQUEST!!!
*
We need the following by John Galsworthy
FRATERNITY
THE COUNTRY HOUSE
THE ISLAND PHARISEES
THE PATRICIAN
Please contact:
DAVID WIDGER <widger@cecomet.net> and cc:me
Have been paying $5, will pay $10, maybe a bit more.
*
We are forming a Polish Team: but all the Polish books we
find are from after 1923, and don't say their contents are
from before then. . .please let me know if you can find an
available source. . .and more volunteers for such a team.
[Please reply to Eve Sobol <esobin@aol.com> and cc: me.
We need proofreaders for our French Jules Verne Etexts:
Jan 1997 De La Terre a La Lune [in French] by Jules Verne#4[xlunexxx.xxx] 799
[We updated the binary version to file 8lune08, we still need more proofing!]
We need: Dostoyevsky's The Devils [The Possessed] (1871-72)
Reply to: John C Duronio <jcd3012@juno.com>, and cc: me
If any volunteers who are fluent in Welsh could help out in translating
the copyright pages of books could they contact David Price,
ccx074@coventry.ac.uk I'd like to start on getting some Welsh
texts done but am not fluent enough to translate copyright pages.
I have, free for the asking, for anyone interested, four volumes of Edward
Bulwer-Lytton's Works. Pre 1923 Collier edition. Vetted for copyright by
MH, etc. Cover's water damaged, but text in fine shape. Good for anyone
wanting to scan and epublish the contents to Gutenberg. Ship from SF/USA
Also, for the cost of shipping, I will give to anyone interested, a copy of
the February 1999 Project Gutenberg CD's. Dave Ceponis <Metrik@aol.com>
and cc:me
Requested. . . .
Books by David Lindsay:
The Haunted Woman, 1922
And a personal request from me. . . .
I will be giving a speech for the Hawaii Library Association,
and would like to spend a little extra time there, never having
been anywhere outside the Lower 48, Canada, and Romania, other
than courtesy of Uncle Sam. . .so. . .If any of you can find me
a place to stay, I would love it. . .Thanks!!! Michael
Also, our emailer has been acting up this week, so if you sent
anything in the past week that I have not answered, please resend.
Sorry for the extra hassle. . . .
Comments About Our New Files
Index Listings for the New Files
Jan 2001 TCB On The Plains, by Edgar B.P. Darlington [CB#5][05tcbxxx.xxx]2478
[We posted the first four quite some time ago, and reserved this slot.]
The following files have been reposted with significant improvements.
[And some of the new math constants will be reposed without notices]
Mar 1998 The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas [Pere #2][1muskxxx.xxx]1257
Nov 1999 Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini [R. Sabatini #3][cpbldxxx.xxx]1965
Nov 2000 Bardelys the Magnificent, by Rafael Sabatini [bardexxx.xxx]2389
Apr 1998 Heritage of the Desert, by Zane Grey[Zane Grey #6][hdsrtxxx.xxx]1262
May 1998 Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey [Grey #7][prpsgxxx.xxx]1300
Apr 1996 Desert Gold, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #2][dgoldxxx.xxx] 502
Nov 1997 The Turmoil, A novel, by Booth Tarkington [BT#5] [turmoxxx.xxx]1098
[These are all now version 11]
Jan 1997 De La Terre a La Lune [in French] by Jules Verne#4[xlunexxx.xxx] 799
**Please note. . .this is STILL only version 08. . .we just updated from 07.*
We want to make sure we do other languages as well as possible, so if you
know any French proofers, please let them know [and cc: me].[8lune08.txt/zip]
And the Etexts for April, May, and most of June. . . .
Starting with a few that were reserved earlier:
Mar 2001 Poems and Tales from Romania, by Simona Sumanaru [patfrxxx.xxx]2538C
Jan 2001 TCB On The Plains, by Edgar B.P. Darlington [CB#5][05tcbxxx.xxx]2478
[This concludes "The Circus Boys" series]
Jun 2001 Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius [medmaxxx.xxx]2680
[This book is currently only available in HTML format]
Jun 2001 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series Two [Emily D. #2][2mlydxxx.xxx]2679
Jun 2001 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series One [Emily D. #1][1mlydxxx.xxx]2678
Jun 2001 Epistles from Pap, Letters from Andrew E. Durham [efpapxxx.xxx]2677C
Jun 2001 The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, by Bret Harte [BH #34][tbroaxxx.xxx]2676
Contains:
THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL'S
JOHNNYBOY
YOUNG ROBIN GRAY
THE SHERIFF OF SISKYOU
A ROSE OF GLENBOGIE
THE MYSTERY OF THE HACIENDA
CHU CHU
MY FIRST BOOK
Jun 2001 Burlesques, by Willam Makepeace Thackeray[WMT #17][brlsqxxx.xxx]2675
Jun 2001 The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner V4[4warnxxx.xxx]2674
Jun 2001 The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner V3[3warnxxx.xxx]2673
Jun 2001 The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner V2[2warnxxx.xxx]2672
Jun 2001 The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner V1[1warnxxx.xxx]2671
Jun 2001 Love-Songs of Childhood, by Eugene Field[Field #2][tlsocxxx.xxx]2670
Jun 2001 The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck - Volume 2[1labtxxx.xxx]2669
Jun 2001 The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck - Volume 1[1labtxxx.xxx]2668
Jun 2001 The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith [OG#2][vicarxxx.xxx]2667
Jun 2001 The Poet at the Breakfast Table by O.W. Holmes #3][ptabtxxx.xxx]2666*
Jun 2001 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, by OW Holmes[prabtxxx.xxx]2665
Also see:
Dec 1996 Autocrat of Breakfast Table, Oliver Wendell Holmes[aofbtxxx.xxx] 751
Jun 2001 Zanoni, by Edward Bulwer Lytton [E. B. Lytton #7][zanonxxx.xxx]2664
Jun 2001 Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [minnaxxx.xxx]2663
Jun 2001 Under the Greenwood Tree, by Thomas Hardy[Hardy#8][ungwtxxx.xxx]2662
Jun 2001 The Mellstock Quire, by Thomas Hardy [Hardy #8][ungwtxxx.xxx]2662
Jun 2001 The Story Of A Mine, by Bret Harte[Bret Harte #33][tsoamxxx.xxx]2661
Jun 2001 Early Australian Voyages, by John Pinkerton [ausvyxxx.xxx]2660
[Note. . .there was a Volume 8 in this particular edition. . .but it was a
reprint of a much earlier work ABOUT Lincoln, not BY Lincoln, so left out]
Jun 2001 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 7 [AH #9][7lincxxx.xxx]2659
Jun 2001 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 6 [AH #8][6lincxxx.xxx]2658
Jun 2001 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 5 [AH #7][5lincxxx.xxx]2657
Jun 2001 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4 [AH #6][4lincxxx.xxx]2656
Jun 2001 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3 [AH #5][3lincxxx.xxx]2655
Jun 2001 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 [AH #4][2lincxxx.xxx]2654
Jun 2001 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 [AH #3][1lincxxx.xxx]2653
Jun 2001 Personal Memoirs V2, General Philip Henry Sheridan[2shdnxxx.xxx]2652
Jun 2001 Personal Memoirs V1, General Philip Henry Sheridan[1shdnxxx.xxx]2651
May 2001 [ xxx.xxx]2650
May 2001 Captains of the Civil War, by William Wood [cptcwxxx.xxx]2649
May 2001 George Cruikshank, by William M. Thackeray[WMT#16][cruikxxx.xxx]2648
May 2001 V1 Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, by Trevelyan[1lllmxxx.xxx]2647
[Author's Full Name: George Otto Trevelyan]
May 2001 John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character[WMT15][jlplcxxx.xxx]2646
[Author's Full Name: William Makepeace Thackaray]
May 2001 The Second Funeral of Napoleon, by W. M. Thackeray[2napfxxx.xxx]2645
May 2001 Isaac Bickerstaff, by Richard Steele [iscbkxxx.xxx]2644
May 2001 John Bull, by J. Arbuthnot [jhnblxxx.xxx]2643
May 2001 Back Home, by Eugene Wood [bckhmxxx.xxx]2642
May 2001 A Room With A View, by E. M. Forster [Forster #2][rmwvwxxx.xxx]2641
May 2001 St. Martin's Summer, by Rafael Sabatini [RS #6] [stmsmxxx.xxx]2640
May 2001 Villa Rubein et al, by John Galsworthy [JG#7/FS#4][vlrbnxxx.xxx]2639
Contents:
Villa Rubein
A Man of Devon
A Knight
Salvation of a Forsyte [This is our 4th Forsyte piece]
The Silence
May 2001 The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoieffsky #5][idiotxxx.xxx]2638
[Also spelled: Dostoevsky, and several other variants, and Feodor/Fe"dor]
May 2001 Youth, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi[Tolstoy/Tolstoi #10][youthxxx.xxx]2637
May 2001 The Historical Nights' Entertainment, by Sabatini [hnitsxxx.xxx]2636
[Author's Full Name: Rafael Sabatini [#5]]
May 2001 Clarence, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #32] [clrncxxx.xxx]2635
The 8 Etexts listed below are from a series of essays by
Thomas H. Huxley called Science and Hebrew Tradition
May 2001 Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study#11[8sahtxxx.xxx]2634
[Full Title: The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study]
May 2001 Hasisadra's Adventure, by Thomas Henry Huxley[#10][7sahtxxx.xxx]2633
May 2001 The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science [6sahtxxx.xxx]2632
May 2001 Mr. Gladstone and Genesis, by Thomas Henry Huxley [5sahtxxx.xxx]2631
May 2001 Interpreters of Genesis and Interpreters of Nature[4sahtxxx.xxx]2630
[Full Title: The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature]
May 2001 Lectures on Evolution, by Thomas Henry Huxley[# 6][3sahtxxx.xxx]2629
May 2001 The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology[T.Huxley#5][2sahtxxx.xxx]2628
May 2001 On the Method of Zadig, by Thomas Henry Huxley[#4][1sahtxxx.xxx]2627
The 8 Etexts listed above are from a series of essays by
Thomas H. Huxley called Science and Hebrew Tradition
May 2001 The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V8 [8hbovxxx.xxx]2626
May 2001 The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V7 [7hbovxxx.xxx]2625
May 2001 The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V6 [6hbovxxx.xxx]2624
May 2001 The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V5 [5hbovxxx.xxx]2623
The four volumes below are now posted, the four above are reserved. . . .
May 2001 The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V4 [4hbovxxx.xxx]2622
May 2001 The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V3 [3hbovxxx.xxx]2621
May 2001 The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V2 [2hbovxxx.xxx]2620
May 2001 The Home Book of Verse, by Burton E. Stevenson V1 [1hbovxxx.xxx]2619
[Author's Full Name: Burton Egbert Stevenson]
Please Note: V4 and V5 correspond to the two halves of "Part IV" as they are
listed in the two volume edition of over 3700 pages: half is in each volume.
May 2001 A House-Boat on the Styx, by John Kendrick Bangs [hstyxxxx.xxx]2618
May 2001 Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 2 [2shrmxxx.xxx]2617
May 2001 Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 1 [1shrmxxx.xxx]2616
[Author's full name: William Tecumseh Sherman]
May 2001 Discourses on Satire & Epic Poetry, by John Dryden[dscepxxx.xxx]2615
May 2001 History of England, James II> V. 5, Macaulay[#12][5hoejxxx.xxx]2614
May 2001 History of England, James II> V. 4, Macaulay[#11][4hoejxxx.xxx]2613
May 2001 History of England, James II> V. 3, Macaulay[#10][3hoejxxx.xxx]2612
Also see:
Dec 2000 History of England, James II> Vol. 2, Macaulay[#9][2hoejxxx.xxx]2439
Sep 1998 History of England, James II> Vol. 1, Macaulay[#2][1hoejxxx.xxx]1468
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
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Apr 2001 Notre-Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo [V. Hugo#3][hbackxxx.xxx]2610
Apr 2001 The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo [VH#3][hbackxxx.xxx]2610
Apr 2001 The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, Pere[vicomxxx.xxx]2609
Apr 2001 The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, Pere[vicomxxh.xxx]2609
We are releasing this as BOTH vicom10.txt AND vicom10h.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.
Apr 2001 Roundabout Papers, by William Makepeace Thackeray [rndbtxxx.xxx]2608
Apr 2001 Psmith, Journalist, by P. G. Wodehouse[Wodehouse4][psmthxxx.xxx]2607
Apr 2001 The Pigeon Pie, by Charlotte M. Yonge[C. Yonge #4][pigpixxx.xxx]2606
Apr 2001 Noto/Unexplored Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell[notoxxxx.xxx]2605
Apr 2001 Noto, An Unexplored Corner of Japan, by P. Lowell [notoxxxx.xxx]2605
Apr 2001 The Longest Journey, by E. M. Forster [Forster #1][ljrnyxxx.xxx]2604
Apr 2001 Questionable Amusements and. . .by J. M. Judy [jmjdyxxx.xxx]2603
[Whole Title: Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes, by J. M. Judy]
Apr 2001 Queen Sheba's Ring, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #10][shebaxxx.xxx]2602
Apr 2001 Heartsease or Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge[hrtssxxx.xxx]2601
Apr 2001 War and Peace, by by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi[Leo T #9][wrnpcxxx.xxx]2600
Apr 2001 Legends and Tales, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #31][landtxxx.xxx]2599
Apr 2001 Urban Sketches, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #30][rbnlgxxx.xxx]2598
Apr 2001 Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands, by Bret Harte[B Harte #29][skggsxxx.xxx]2597
Apr 2001 Awakening & To Let, John Galsworthy[Forsyte#3JG#6][toletxxx.xxx]2596
Apr 2001 Ramsey Milholland, by Booth Tarkington/Booth T.#10[rmsymxxx.xxx]2595
Apr 2001 Indian Summer of a Forsyte, by John Galsworthy[#5][isoafxxx.xxx]2594
[This is Volume 2 of the Forsyte Saga, also see:]
Mar 2001 Man of Property, by John Galsworthy[Forsyte#1JG#4][mnprpxxx.xxx]2559
Apr 2001 The Life of Stephen A. Douglas, by William Gardner[losadxxx.xxx]2593
Apr 2001 Grimms' Fairy Tales, by the Grimm Brothers [grimmxxx.xxx]2591
Contains:
THE GOLDEN BIRD
HANS IN LUCK
JORINDA AND JORINDEL
THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
OLD SULTAN
THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN
BRIAR ROSE
THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES
THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR
THE FROG-PRINCE
CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
THE GOOSE-GIRL
THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
1. HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS
2. HOW CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET WENT TO VIST MR KORBES
RAPUNZEL
FUNDEVOGEL
THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
HANSEL AND GRETEL
THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
MOTHER HOLLE
LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
TOM THUMB
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
CLEVER GRETEL
THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON
THE LITTLE PEASANT
FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
SWEETHEART ROLAND
SNOWDROP
THE PINK
CLEVER ELSIE
THE MISER IN THE BUSH
ASHPUTTEL
THE WHITE SNAKE
THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS
THE QUEEN BEE
THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
THE JUNIPER-TREE
THE TURNIP
CLEVER HANS
THE THREE LANGUAGES
THE FOX AND THE CAT
THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS
LILY AND THE LION
THE FOX AND THE HORSE
THE BLUE LIGHT
THE RAVEN
THE GOLDEN GOOSE
THE WATER OF LIFE
THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN
THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
DOCTOR KNOWALL
THE SEVEN RAVENS
THE WEDDING OF MRS FOX
FIRST STORY
SECOND STORY
THE SALAD
THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS
KING GRISLY-BEARD
IRON HANS
CAT-SKIN
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
Apr 2001 Guy Mannering, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #13][guymnxxx.xxx]2590
Apr 2001 Experiences of a Bandmaster, by John Philip Sousa [sousaxxx.xxx]2589
Apr 2001 Stories by English Authors in Scotland, Scribs Ed.[sbeasxxx.xxx]2588
[This series was credited as edited by Scribners]
Contains:
The Courting of T'nowhead's Bell J. M. Barrie
"The Heather Lintie" S. R. Crockett
A Doctor of the Old School Ian Maclaren
Wandering Willie's Tale Sir Walter Scott
The Glenmutchkin Railway Professor Aytoun
Thrawn Janet Robert Louis Stevenson
Also see our Stories by Enlish Authors in France, Germany, Africa, etc, etc.]
Apr 2001 Life Is A Dream, by Pedro Calderon de la Barca [lfdrmxxx.xxx]2587
Apr 2001 The first 498 Bernoulli Numbers[Math Constant #22][brnllxxx.xxx]2586
Apr 2001 The first 1001 Fibonacci Numbers[Math Constant#21][fbnccxxx.xxx]2585
Apr 2001 The first 1000 Euler Numbers [Math Constant #20][eulerxxx.xxx]2584
Apr 2001 The Value of Zeta(3) to 1,000,000 Places[Math #19][zeta3xxx.xxx]2583
Apr 2001 The Modern Regime V2, by Hippolyte A. Taine OCFV6[06ocfxxx.xxx]2582
Apr 2001 The Modern Regime V1, by Hippolyte A. Taine OCFV5[05ocfxxx.xxx]2581
Apr 2001 The French Revolution V3, by Hippolyte Taine OCFV4[04ocfxxx.xxx]2580
Apr 2001 The French Revolution V2, by Hippolyte Taine OCFV3[03ocfxxx.xxx]2579
Apr 2001 The French Revolution V1, by Hippolyte Taine OCFV2[02ocfxxx.xxx]2578
Apr 2001 The Ancient Regime, by Hippolyte A. Taine OCFV1[01ocfxxx.xxx]2577
Apr 2001 Alps and Sanctuaries, by Samuel Butler [Butler #5][alpsnxxx.xxx]2576
[Full Title: Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino]
Apr 2001 Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, by Colerige #2[cfinqxxx.xxx]2575
[Full: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc., by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]
Apr 2001 On the Frontier, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #28][frntrxxx.xxx]2574
Apr 2001 The Caged Lion, by Charlotte M. Yonge [Yonge #2] [cgdlnxxx.xxx]2573
Apr 2001 On the Decay of the Art of Lying, by Mark Twain 17[lyingxxx.xxx]2572
Apr 2001 Peace, by Aristophanes [Aristophanes #2][peacexxx.xxx]2571
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
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[This is such a long Newsletter is is broken into 2 parts, this is #2]
[Moderators. . .while I feel this news is an important part of this
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Notes from News Scan
[MCI] WORLDCOM PAYS $3.5 MILLION TO SETTLE "SLAMMING COMPLAINT"
Long-distance company WorldCom Inc. is paying $3.5 million to settle an
inquiry by the Federal Communications Commission into 2,900 complaints from
persons charging that WorldCom telemarketers switched them away from other
phone service carriers using a deceptive practice known as "slamming."
WorldCom president Bernard J. Ebbers says the slamming incidents "were
perpetrated by a few sales employees who have since been terminated."
(Washington Post 7 Jun 2000) [Not a cent went to the "slammees."]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10351-2000Jun6.html
CHINA ARRESTS WEB SITE OPERATOR
Police in the Chinese city of Chengu have arrested 36-year-old Huang Qi on
suspicion of "subverting state power" by operating the Web site
www.6-4tianwang.com, which publishes information about human rights problems
and corruption in China. If tried and convicted Huang could be imprisoned
for more than ten years. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 7 Jun 2000)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/72937l.htm
AT&T WINS APPROVAL FOR PURCHASE OF MEDIAONE
The Federal Communications Commission gave conditional approval of AT&T's
$58-billion planned acquisition of the MediaOne cable group, but will
require the combined entity to comply with a rule barring any company from
serving more than 30% of the nation's market for subscription-TV services,
including cable and satellite. To meet that requirement, AT&T could sell off
its stake in the Liberty Media Group, or its 25% share of Time Warner cable
systems, or its own cable systems serving almost 10 million customers. But
even after AT&T complies with the FCC's requirement to pare itself down, the
company will be the nation's largest provider of long-distance telephone and
cable TV service. (Washington Post 6 June 2000)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3009-2000Jun5.html
BRUSSELS LOOKING TO CLOSE WEB TAX LOOPHOLE
The European Commission is expected to adopt a proposal this week that would
eliminate a loophole used by merchants outside the EU to avoid levying the
Value Added Tax (VAT) on their customers. Currently, U.S. companies can sell
intangible items such as digital music, software and information over the
Web to buyers in Europe without having to worry about being accountable for
the VAT. The Commission now wants to treat sales of those items in the same
way it does books, CDs and other tangible purchases, which are already
subject to the VAT. The U.S. has pushed for relief for American companies,
but the director of tax policy at the EC says e-commerce should be treated
like any other form of commerce and no concessions should be made.
"Obviously, the U.S. will have a problem with this as American companies
will be taxed despite having no physical presence (in the EU)," says the
president of KPMG-European VAT & Customs Services. (Financial Times 5 Jun 2000)
http://www.ft.com/
INFOTECH IS DRIVING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
A new report from the U.S. Commerce Department says that digital
technologies have become the driving force of the American economy,
accounting for one-third of overall economic growth in the last five years
and making the country more productive. During that time computer prices
fell 26% a year, infotech investment doubled, technology industries invested
$45 billion in R&D, and the number of people in the world with Internet
access increased a hundred-fold, to more than 300 million. (New York Times
Cybertimes 6 Jun 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/cyber/capital/06capital.html
BOOKSELLERS IN WARY TRUCE WITH DIGITAL COMPANIES
There are 60 digital providers at this year's BookExpo America convention in
Chicago, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is the feature speaker, and the
convention offerings include seminars with titles such as "ePublishing
Today" and "Retailing eBooks and Books on Demand." Although some booksellers
are in shock about the decision to ask Bezos to be the keynote speaker, the
president of the American Booksellers Association says that most people
acknowledge that the choice of Bezos "reflects some of the changes in the
book industry." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 31 May 2000)
htp://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/51596l.htm
LAWSUIT CHARGES CBS WITH STEALING IDEAS FROM WEB COMPANY
Entertainment Network Inc., which operates a Florida-based Web site that
paid college tuition for a half dozen women who agreed to have cameras
situated throughout their group house sending 24-hour-a-day live video feeds
of all aspects of their daily lives, is suing CBS and Infinity Broadcasting
for allegedly stealing the site's marketing strategies and technical
expertise. CBS and Infinity, who are developing a similar program called
"Big Brother," say the suit is frivolous. (AP/New York Times 1 June 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/01voyeur-lawsuit.html
##MITNICK LAWYERS SAY SPEAKING BAN VIOLATES FIRST AMENDMENT
Ex-convict network hacker Kevin Mitnick, out on parole but forbidden by the
court to write or speak about the computer industry, is being represented by
New York attorney Floyd Abrams, an expert on the First Amendment to the
Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech.
Abrams has been retained by publisher Steven Brill, who wants to use Mitnick
as a columnist for the Contentville Web site. (CNet/New York Times 25 May 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0_4_1951220_00.html
LATIN AMERICA BETS ON WIRELESS
Latin America's population lags behind Europe and the U.S. in terms of
online users, but that may soon change. The new users won't be logging on
via a PC, however -- they're much more likely to access the Internet via
wireless phones, a market that's growing at an impressive 30%. The switch to
wireless access eliminates the need to plunk down $1,000 or more on a new
PC, and could jump-start the Internet revolution in that region. While 90%
of Latin American households have a television set and cable penetration
approaches 50% in most countries, only a small percentage of middle-income
households are online -- a statistic that has stymied the expansion of
e-commerce in the region. "As a businessman, I want to be able to invest in
a place where I will be able to sell the Internet to most people, not just
the few that are rich," says one Argentine-born entrepreneur. "What I love
about investing in Europe is that it has the richest poor people of the
world." (The Standard 9 May 2000)
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,14920,00.html
INTEL COURTS "OPEN-SOURCE" MOVEMENT WITH NEW CHIP
In an uncharacteristic move, Intel plans to release over the Internet
technical details of its new Itanium microprocessor, in a effort to boost
the use of the Linux operating system with its chips. The Itanium Processor
Microarchitecture Reference, to be released today, includes nitty-gritty
details such as how the chip manages data memory. Previously, details like
this were closely guarded secrets, made available only to a few partners,
like Microsoft, who were forced to sign nondisclosure agreements. Linux, an
"open-source" operating system whose technical details are made freely
available to software developers and engineers, is increasingly found on the
servers that Intel hopes will soon be using its chips. Itanium, previously
code-named Merced, is due for release in the second half of this year and
marks Intel's first major new microprocessor design in nearly 15 years.
(Wall Street Journal 10 May 2000)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB957908075498923116.htm
BILL CRIMINALIZES DRUG LINKS
The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote this morning on
the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act, legislation that
would affect some Web sites because it restricts the publication
of information about illegal drugs. Marv Johnson, legislative
counsel for the ACLU, says the act raises serious First Amendment
concerns. A section of the bill prohibits teaching or
demonstrating how controlled substances are manufactured. The
House and Senate both have their own versions of the bill. A
number of House Judiciary Committee members are in favor of the
Senate version. The Senate version would require ISPs and other
hosting companies to respond to government complaints by
shuttering offending Web sites on 48 hours notice.
(Wired News, 9 May 2000)
DOT-COMS INVADE THE DORMITORY
In the tradition of Dell Computer and Microsoft, more and more
college students are running dot-com businesses out of their dorm
rooms--despite some school polices forbidding such enterprises. Past
prohibitions on student business stemmed from the noise and confusion
created in merchandise-based transactions - a student selling T-shirts out
of a dorm room, for example. But today's student entrepreneurs use computers
and cell phones to conduct business quietly and their activities are less
disturbing to their roommates. Some school tech staff watch levels of
Internet traffic to try to ferret out those doing business online. But
student entrepreneurs set up off-campus post office boxes, use cell phones
and non-school Internet addresses, and meet prospective investors in
restaurants to avoid detection. And even when they are caught, some schools
do little more than lecture them. (Newsweek, 15 May 2000)
BATTLE OVER DVD CODE MOVES TO HYPERLINKS
In a case that could hold widespread ramifications for free
speech on the Internet, the Motion Picture Association of America
and other top movie studios are requesting a federal judge grant an
injunction that would force 2600 Magazine to remove controversial hyperlinks
from its Web site. The hyperlinks provide information about DVD encryption.
The movie studios contend that the encryption codes are trade secrets, but
civil liberties advocates such as the Electronic Frontier
Foundation argue that the codes are free speech protected by the
First Amendment. This is just the latest round in the battle
between the movie studios and New York-based 2600 Magazine.
Months ago the studios were granted an injunction that prohibited
the Web site from displaying information about the DVD
encryption. Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Robin Gross
says the injunction the movie studios are seeking would chill
free speech. (Newsbytes, 4 May 2000)
INTERNET GENDER GAP HAS CLOSED IN U.S.
According to a study by the Pew Research Center, 46% of Web surfers are now
female, compared with just 18% in 1996. Much of the "gender gap" has closed
in the last six months, during which 9 million American women went online
for the first time. After surveying 3,533 adults in March, Pew researchers
concluded that men and women spent roughly equal time online, with women
tending to frequent health and medical sites, and men using the Net to
research product information and trade stocks. The findings mirror those of
another market research study released last month by the Angus Reid Group of
Vancouver, Canada, which said American men and women spend equal time
surfing the Net and placing online shopping orders. And in contrast to some
earlier reports, the two recent studies found that being online contributes
to social interaction and family connections, rather than fueling isolation
and depression. "The Internet is not isolationist; it's 'connectionist,'"
says Pew official Lee Rainie. (Los Angeles Times 11 May 2000)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000511/t000044476.html
U.S. HOUSE VOTES TO EXTEND NET TAX BAN
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 352 to 75 yesterday to extend the
moratorium on Internet-specific taxes for another five years. The current
ban was set to expire in October 2001. The Internet Nondiscrimination Act
also repealed a "grandfather" clause that had allowed 11 states to collect
Internet access fees imposed before the ban was enacted. The moratorium does
not prohibit a state from collecting taxes on sales of goods by sellers who
have a physical presence in that state. The legislation has sparked sharp
disagreement between those who feel the moratorium hurts small
bricks-and-mortar retailers and states that need the sales tax revenue, and
those who want to foster the fledgling e-commerce industry. (ECommerce Times
11 May 2000)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles20000/00511-3.shtml
NETWORK SOLUTIONS TO OFFER "PRE-OWNED" NAMES
Network Solutions is expanding its Internet domain name registration
business to include "pre-owned" names ending in .com, .net and .org. Dozens
of Web sites have entered the resale market in the last few years, giving
cyberspeculators a venue for auctioning off names they've registered,
sometimes for millions of dollars. Network Solutions says it will offer its
new service for free during an introductory period, and later plans to fold
its resale business into its existing name search and registration process.
(Los Angeles Times 15 May 2000)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000515.t000045842.html
CHINESE FINANCIAL SITE PUNISHED FOR "SPREADING RUMORS"
The China Finance Information Network, a local Web site, has come under fire
from the country's Internet Information Management Bureau, which was
established in April to monitor Internet content. The site was fined
US$1,800 and suspended for 15 days for "spreading rumors" damaging to the
government's image. The transgression appears to be the publication in March
of a Hong Kong newspaper article about corruption by a provincial official
in Hubei. Bureau chief Wang Qingchun was quoted in the Liberation Daily
saying that pending rules on Internet content could limit Chinese Web sites
to publication of news originating only from authorized reports in the state
media. (Financial Times 15 May 2000) http://www.ft.com/
WHEN IS A DATABASE MORE THAN A DATABASE?
Upstart Jurisline.com is being sued by legal publisher Lexis for copying the
CDs containing court opinions and related documents that Lexis sells and
distributing the same information free on its Web site. For decades, the
database of legal material has been marketed by two companies -- Reed
Elsevier's Lexis and Thomson Corp.'s West Publishing -- which charge premium
rates for access to a single document and reap millions of dollars a year in
subscription fees from the nation's law firms. Jurisline.com, on the other
hand, distributes the information for free, making its revenue on
advertising. At issue in the court case is whether Lexis's license agreement
prohibiting the purchaser from developing "a database, infobase or other
information resource" is legally enforceable, given that the materials in
question were written on the taxpayer's dime and can't be copyrighted. A
federal judge is expected to rule today in the case. (Wall Street Journal 15
May 2000)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB958348989291026253.htm
TRADEMARK-THIS DOT-COM
A study of trademark applications submitted to the U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office shows that the number of applications between 1994 and 1999 increased
more than a thousand-fold, from just 307 in 1994 to 33,731 in 1999. In
addition, the number of trademark applications with the ".com" domain name
went from 4 in 1994 to 12,000 last year. A partner in the Philadelphia law
firm that conducted the study sees some confusion up ahead: "There are
similar trademarks pending with garden.com, pets.com and others of that ilk.
The real question will be what happens when you have a generic.com and
someone else comes real close. What happens when you stick on an i, or an e,
or make it a plural?" The government's trademark policies are posted on
www.uspto.gov. (New York Times 15 May 2000)
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/15pate.html
BRITS UNFAZED BY DOT-COM FRENZY
A new survey by FT.com shows the British public has little interest in
Internet startups -- only 7% of the 2,000 people questioned said they
aspired to be part of the dot-com industry, and only 3% said they'd give up
their current jobs if they had a good idea for a startup. Most people
surveyed did not think the Internet will have much of an impact on their
jobs, with only 5% worrying that changes brought about by the Net could
affect the future of their careers. Even the get-rich-quick scenario failed
to draw much interest -- only 12% of respondents said they envied dot-com
millionaires, while 22% said they were overrated and overhyped and 18% said
they were just opportunists looking for a quick buck. "Too many people by
far are alienated by the Internet rather than empowered by it," says Michael
Foster, managing director of FT.com. "They don't want to be part of the
dotcom revolution, they don't want to invest in it and they don't understand
the technology. It is the responsibility of business and the media to
communicate the rewards the Internet can offer in a way which connects with
people." (Financial Times 22 May 2000) http://www.ft.com/
JAPANESE PREFER TO LOG ON VIA PHONE
Figures released by Japan's three cell phone operators -- NTT DoCoMo, Nippon
Ido Tsushin Corp. and J-Phone -- indicate the number of Japanese cell phone
users with Internet access will top 10 million by the end of this month,
making the mobile phone Japan's most popular means for accessing the Web.
DoCoMo says it has 6.92 million subscribers to its iMode service, and is
adding about 20,000 new users a day. iMode subscribers can exchange e-mail,
do online banking and surf among more than 7,000 Internet sites set up for
mobile phone access. (Reuters/TechWeb 22 May 2000)
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters/REU20000522S0002
GROUP TO PROPOSE DIGITAL COPYRIGHT CHANGES
[Right. . .this is "Progressive Policy". . .talk about hiding
your true ideology behind an extremely evasive oxymoron. . .]
The Progressive Policy Institute is expected to meet with Congress on
Wednesday to deliver its proposed remedy for the current legal wranglings
over copyright infringements via the Internet. The changes include:
requiring Internet companies to collect personally identifiable and
verifiable information from their users, rather than allowing them to sign
on anonymously; setting a specific time frame for removing
copyright-infringing materials off the Net; and allowing judges to grant
injunctions against companies such as Napster whose services are
substantially used for exchanging pirated material. (Los Angeles Times 22
May 2000) http://www.latimes.com/business/20000522/t000048299.html
G-8 TACKLES CYBERCRIME
[In case you wondered why Gnutella has gotten so much air time. . . .]
Envoys from the world's leading industrialized nations and private business
met this week in Paris to discuss cooperation in fighting Internet-based
crime, but widespread differences in national approaches could stymie
efforts. At the heart of those differences is the degree to which
governments are willing to monitor the Net for illegal behavior, which
inevitably occurs at the expense of citizens' privacy. In addition,
e-commerce businesses tend to discourage more government involvement, which
they view as a menace to both economic growth and individual liberty. On
April 27, the Council of Europe published a draft treaty proposing uniform
international law enforcement standards in cyberspace, including the
requirement that all messages and content sent via the Internet be stored
for three months before deleting. That proposal has met with mixed reactions
among both governments and industry representatives. The U.S., which held
observer status during the drafting, has not endorsed that proposal. (Los
Angeles Times 18 May 2000)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000518/t000046914.html
RECOMMENDATION COULD DERAIL WORLDCOM-SPRINT DEAL
[Not that MCI-Worldcom and Sprint aren't already way too powerful. . .]
Federal antitrust lawyers have sent the U.S. Justice Department a formal
recommendation against WorldCom's $115-billion buyout of Sprint, arguing
that the deal would harm competition by combining the nation's second and
third largest long-distance carriers and creating a dominant entity in
Internet switching services. Justice's antitrust chief, Joel Klein, who has
not yet taken a position on the merger, has asked to meet with the
companies' lawyers next week to hear their side of the story. The deal could
still be consummated if WorldCom and Sprint are willing to agree to
significant divestitures to protect competition. A spokesman for the
companies said he's confident the deal will "go through and that all of the
various regulatory reviews will be concluded by the fall." The acquisition
is also under scrutiny by the Federal Communications Commission and the;24r
European Commission. (Wall Street Journal 18 May 2000)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/article1.htm
LYCOS ACQUIRED BY TERRA NETWORKS
[More mergers. . .in case you didn't realize this happens EVERY day!!!]
Internet portal company Lycos will be acquired in a $10 billion or more
stock swap by Terra Networks, the Internet arm of Spanish telephone company
Telefonica, with German company Bertelsmann taking a stake in the combined
company. Annika Alford, an industry analyst with the research firm IDC, says
that Terra's interest in Lycos represents a shift from its current efforts
to dominate Latin America to "a broader international focus." (Washington
Post 16 May 2000)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9121-2000May16.html
AOL TO LAUNCH FREE ONLINE SERVICE FOR SCHOOLS
[Let's not forget it was kids who "invented" the Internet as we know it]
[Let's also not forget that AOL "invented" Gnutella, and once the genie
was out of the bottle, hastily reversed their direction. . . .]
America Online is set to launch its new AOL@School service -- a free version
of its regular service that will include e-mail, instant messaging, and
information resources designed for elementary, middle-school and high-school
students. The free service does not include Internet access, but rather is
targeting schools that are already wired with high-speed hook-ups. The
AOL@School service will not feature advertising, but will offer marketing
pitches for school supplies and other goods in areas aimed at teachers and
administrators. (Wall Street Journal 16 May 2000)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB958436442629078285.htm
NOTICING MARCH TO E-PUBLISHING, MAJOR FIRMS CHOOSE TO LEAD PARADE
A burst of announcements today will signal that the electronic publishing
revolution is just a few years away. Best-selling author Michael Crichton's
new thriller "Timeline" will be made available through an arrangement
between Microsoft and the publishing companies Simon & Schuster (a unit of
Viacom) and Random House (a unit of Bertelsmann). In a separate development,
Time Warner's publishing group is creating two new startups, iPublish.com
and iWrite to seek authors of material to be published in electronic form.
Robert E. Baensch of New York University says: "The large conglomerates
realize now that they better learn by doing rather than to continue to
observe not one, not 5, not 50, but hundreds of startup.coms that are
entering this market." (New York Times 23 May 2000)
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/23books.html
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E-NOVEL APPROACH PROMISES NEW CHAPTER FOR BOOK LOVERS
Electronic books might look and feel just like traditional books
within the next several years, due to companies such as E Ink
that are advancing the technology. E Ink, a small company
founded by MIT researchers, is working on flexible electronic
paper that looks and feels like standard paper, and electronic
ink that can change into different characters. E-book users
would be able to change the book's content by plugging the device
into a phone line or wireless receiver. Currently, E Ink is
using its technology to make indoor signs, since large letters
are much easier to produce than the small letters required for a
book. J.C. Penney, Eckerd drugstores, and Yahoo! are all using E
Ink signs. As E Ink refines its technology, it believes e-books
will be possible by 2003 or 2004. E Ink's displays are more
readable than any electronic display, and require little power to
change content. In addition, the displays stay on even when the
power is off, so an E Ink book would not need to be powered after
the user has loaded content. Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center
is also working on e-book technology, but E Ink appears to be in
the lead. (USA Today, 9 May 2000)
INTERNET OFFERING ECONOMIC LIFELINE TO RURAL SOUTH
The rural South is starting to reverse its low-tech image as many
small towns work to provide Internet access for residents and
businesses that see the region's growth potential. The historic
town of Thomasville, Ga., recently purchased its local utilities
to provide inexpensive, reliable Internet access. Thomasville's
high-tech push led food-processing firm Flower Industries to move
its data-processing business to the town. Another small Southern
town, Conway, Ark., is home to a top database-marketing service
called Acxiom with more than $700 million in annual sales.
Meanwhile, Blacksburg, Va., gave all of its residents free
Internet access in the early 1990s and now has over 70 percent of
its population using the Internet on a regular basis. Rural
markets are eager for access to technology, since utilities such
as cable companies have traditionally neglected these regions in
favor of more densely populated and therefore profitable areas.
Building up technology in small towns is also viewed as a way to
alleviate some of the overcrowding in urban areas.
(Christian Science Monitor Online, 3 May 2000)
E-WORDS ARE TOUGH FOR FRANCE TO SWALLOW
French officials are trying to prevent American terms associated
with the Internet from entering the French language. Officials,
particularly those from the Academie Francaise, which has been
defending the French language since 1635, are afraid that if firm
action is not taken to protect the language, French translations
of Internet terms will be rejected in favor of American versions.
Recently, the French Finance Ministry produced a list of
acceptable French vocabulary for the Internet age, which was
created by a government commission after long talks with the
Academie Francaise. The list provides correct versions for
increasingly common words. Although these terms are just
recommendations for the majority of French people, they are
mandatory for public declarations and official documents.
Meanwhile, the Academie Francaise has been working on its own
"Dictionary of Official Terms," which will be mandatory for
government use, including public schools, where many children
encounter the Internet for the first time. (USA Today, 1 May 2000)
RURAL SCHOOL IS NOW WIRED TO THE WORLD
The Internet is helping rural schools overcome isolation in
Wyoming, a state so sparsely populated that 19 of its 234
elementary schools have fewer than 10 students this year. This
school year Wyoming became the first state to provide Internet
access in all of its public schools. One beneficiary of the
technology is nine-year-old Diamond Forbes, the only student in a
one-room elementary school in Kaycee, Wyo., who uses an iMac to
surf the Web to keep up with third graders in larger schools.
Wyoming, where job growth is slow and many college graduates
leave the state, has not yet capitalized on the tech-driven
economy. Recognizing the need to provide children with job
skills, Gov. Jim Geringer five years ago spearheaded the effort
to bring Internet access to all Wyoming schools, which has cost
$25 million so far. By next month, Wyoming plans to have all of
its high schools connected to a two-way interactive video system
that will allow students to participate remotely in classes their
schools do not offer. (New York Times, 4 May 2000)
UNIVERSITIES SEE WEB AS TOOL TO SELL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Hoping to supplement waning federal research funds, universities
are selling their intellectual property online. Using
traditional means, universities have been largely unsuccessful in
their efforts to sell their research; in 1998, just three cents
of revenue was generated from every dollar spent on research
initiatives. Universities attribute this poor return to
inexperience in the market and an emphasis on department
interests rather than market requirements when performing
research. A new online intellectual marketplace, called
UVentures.com, aims to improve university efforts to sell
intellectual property by connecting buyers and sellers online.
The marketplace is expected to generate more purchases than
traditional methods, because it links a greater variety of
interested parties. The marketplace is also expected to make it
easier for companies to search for available intellectual
properties. "We welcome with open arms this ability to find
technology by browsing a single site," says Bob Johnson, a
commercial analyst at biotechnology firm Onyvax Limited.
(InternetWeek Online, 1 May 2000)
EDUCATION REASSESSED IN WORKER SHORTAGE DEBATE
The high-tech industry, complaining of a severe labor shortage,
is reconsidering the importance of a four-year college degree for
certain types of IT workers. Four-year universities are often
unable to keep up with rapidly changing technology. As a result,
lobbyists and recruiters are turning to community colleges and
for-profit schools, which seem to be more flexible and less
expensive than traditional schools, says Harris Miller, president
of the Information Technology Association of America. Industry
observers say some technicians and support staff do not need the
same level of education as software developers, for example.
(EE Times Online, 4 May 2000)
COLLEGES GET BAD GRADES FOR WEB SITES
Prospective college students say, on average, university and
college Web sites do not provide the information they need.
BreathingLife.com Director of Operations Bonnie Matheney says
higher education Web sites often have big files and badly placed
scripts, as well as high-resolution pictures, which make
downloads much longer. Her company intends to offer assistance
and information to college and graduate applicants. Case Western
Reserve University dean of admissions Bill Conley says college
Web pages tend to be bandwidth-heavy because the schools have
faster connections than their audiences, so even a focus group
reviewing the site on campus will get a different picture than
those elsewhere. Student Stacey Recarba researched schools
online, and found--after waiting for the pages to download--that
she could easily find information about the schools' athletic
programs, but application information was much more difficult.
Matheney notes that schools have so many different groups within
themselves and so many different groups they want to reach that
forming a coherent message can be a major challenge. She
recommends that someone from the information services support
staff be appointed Webmaster to track usage, assign URLs, and
keep the system running. (Interactive Week, 1 May 2000)
E-MAIL PRODUCTIVITY GAINS = $9,000 PER EMPLOYEE
Ferris Research has released the results of a study designed to quantify the
costs and benefits of e-mail, and estimates that the overall benefit in
terms of increased productivity equals about $9,000 per employee. Rather
than treading into the murky area of nonquantifiable benefits, such as
improved decision-making, Ferris attempted to focus on items that delivered
a tangible benefit, like time not spent on addressing snail mail envelopes,
operating postage and fax machines, etc. It derived a 15% to 20%
productivity improvement, with an overall increase of 326 hours per employee
on the average. Ferris then attempted to quantify those hours, giving them a
value of $13,000. Then came the downside: Ferris found that employees waste
on an average 115 hours dealing with nonproductive e-mail, translating to a
loss of about $4,000 per worker a year. Subtract the loss from the gain, and
the result is an overall benefit of $9,000 per employee, or a 15%
productivity gain. Ferris says that rate can be raised to 20% by more
actively managing company e-mail systems: discouraging personal e-mail,
shortening e-mail distribution lists, and helping workers identify and trash
spam. (Investor's Business Daily 25 May 2000)
AOL, WORLDCOM TEAM UP
America Online and WorldCom have signed an agreement to market AOL's
Internet services to WorldCom's residential local and long-distance
customers. WorldCom's Internet subscribers will be offered at least six
months to convert to AOL. (Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times 25 May 2000)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000525/t000049364.html
LOAFER-TRACKING SATELLITES IN DENVER
Following a TV news report showing some city employees playing cards and
sleeping on the job, Denver officials want to spend $1.5 million to track
Public Works Department and other city vehicles through Global Positioning
System (GPS) satellites originally developed for the military. Denver labor
lawyer Ellen Kelman opposes the plan: "There is no system that will prevent
some individuals from engaging in abuse. But do we want to infringe on the
rights of all to catch a few scofflaws?" (AP/USA Today 23 May 2000)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth959.htm
OUTSMARTED, TOYSMART PULLS THE PLUG
The most recent of several online toy merchants to shut down, the
Massachusetts-based educational toy retailer Toysmart.com, owned in large
part by Walt Disney Co., has announced it is going out of business.
Forrester Research industry analyst Seema Williams says, "Toysmart.com never
even came close. They didn't do anything wrong, but they were just the wrong
company selling the wrong product at the wrong time." The company was unable
to compete with larger companies such as eToys, Amazon.com, and ToysRUs.com,
which offered wider selections of merchandise and had larger advertising
budgets. (AP/Washington Post 23 May 2000)
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About twice as many [64%] Asian-American families use the Internet,
as the national average of all families [33%], which should include
the Asian-American families. . .so the difference is even greater.
97% of Chinese households have television, 88% for refrigerators.
Since 1956 US service workers have outnumbered blue-collar workers.
100 rupees [$2.34] buys 50 channels of cable access in India,
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10 years ago there was just one part time government channel.
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India is currently undergoing the worst drought in 10-100 years.
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In 1950 New York City handled about 20% of the US sea
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out there in InternetLand. . ..
We posted Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
We have started releasing Aristophanes.
And plenty more Bret Harte, Elizabeth Gaskell,
Robert Louis Stevenson,
Index Listings for the New Files
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
New versions of the following were posted:
Jan 2000 The American Republic, by O. A. Brownson [amrepxxx.xxx]2053
Mar 2001 Two Men of Sandy Bar, by Bret Harte[Bret Harte#27][tmosbxxx.xxx]2570
Mar 2001 The Day's Work [Vol. 1], by Rudyard Kipling[RK#14][dyswkxxx.xxx]2569
Mar 2001 Trent's Last Case, by E.C.(Edmund Clerihew)Bentley[trentxxx.xxx]2568
[This was the British title, US title was The Woman in Black]
Mar 2001 The Woman in Black by E.C.(Edmund Clerihew)Bentley[trentxxx.xxx]2568
Mar 2001 A Plea for Captain John Brown, by Thoreau [HDT #4][apcjbxxx.xxx]2567
[Author: Henry David Thoreau]
Jan 2001 Mary-'Gusta by Joseph C. Lincoln [J.C. Lincoln #4][mrygtxxx.xxx]2473
Mar 2001 How to Fail in Literature, by Andrew Lang[Lang#26][fllitxxx.xxx]2566
Mar 2001 The Story of the Glittering Plain, by Wm. Morris 4[gltplxxx.xxx]2565
Mar 2001 Wanderings Among South Sea Savages by H. W. Walker[wasssxxx.xxx]2564
[Title: Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines]
[Author: H. Wilfrid Walker]
Mar 2001 Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by Lamothe-Langon[8dbryxxx.xxx]2563
Mar 2001 Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by Lamothe-Langon[7dbryxxx.xxx]2563
[Full title: Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry With Minute Details of Her
Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV]
[Author's full name: Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon]
[We are posting two versions, 8 bit with accents, 7 bit plain standard text.]
Mar 2001 The Clouds, by Aristophanes [Aristophanes #1][cloudxxx.xxx]2562
Mar 2001 Robert Falconer, by George MacDonald[MacDonald#10][rflcnxxx.xxx]2561
Mar 2001 The Three Partners, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #26][tpartxxx.xxx]2560
Mar 2001 Man of Property, by John Galsworthy[Forsyte#1JG#4][mnprpxxx.xxx]2559
Mar 2001 Poems, by George P. Morris [mrrspxxx.xxx]2558
Mar 2001 Old Mother West Wind, by Thornton W. Burgess[TB#4][ldmwwxxx.xxx]2557
Mar 2001 Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation, by Bret Harte [BH#25][jhmlnxxx.xxx]2556
Mar 2001 Under the Redwoods, by Bret Harte[Bret Harte [#24][unrdwxxx.xxx]2555
Contains:
JIMMY'S BIG BROTHER FROM CALIFORNIA
THE YOUNGEST MISS PIPER
A WIDOW OF THE SANTA ANA VALLEY
THE MERMAID OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT
UNDER THE EAVES
HOW REUBEN ALLEN "SAW LIFE" IN SAN FRANCISCO
THREE VAGABONDS OF TRINIDAD
A VISION OF THE FOUNTAIN
A ROMANCE OF THE LINE
BOHEMIAN DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO
UNDER THE REDWOODS
Mar 2001 Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky [FD #4][7crmpxxx.xxx]2554
Mar 2001 Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky [FD #4][8crmpxxx.xxx]2554
Mar 2001 Jeanne d'Arc, Her Life and Death, by Mrs. Oliphant[7jnrcxxx.xxx]2553
Mar 2001 Jeanne d'Arc, Her Life and Death, by Mrs. Oliphant[8jnrcxxx.xxx]2553
[We are posting two versions, 8 bit with accents, 7 bit plain standard text.]
Mar 2001 Thankful's Inheritance, by Joseph C. Lincoln[JL#5][thkinxxx.xxx]2552
Mar 2001 Droll Stories [V. 3], by Honore de Balzac[HdB #95][3drllxxx.xxx]2551
Also see:
Sep 2000 Droll Stories [V. 2], by Honore de Balzac[HdB #92][2drllxxx.xxx]2318
Oct 1999 Droll Stories [V. 1], by Honore de Balzac[HdB #82][1drllxxx.xxx]1925
Mar 2001 Tales of Trail and Town, by Bret Harte [Harte #23][totatxxx.xxx]2550
Mar 2001 Doom of the Griffiths, by Elizabeth Gaskell[EG#10][dmgrfxxx.xxx]2549
Mar 2001 The Poor Clare, by Elizabeth Gaskell[E. Gaskell#9][prclrxxx.xxx]2548
Mar 2001 Half a Life-time Ago, by Elizabeth Gaskell[E.G.#8][hlflfxxx.xxx]2547
Mar 2001 Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up, by CE Mulford[hcrruxxx.xxx]2546
Mar 2001 BAR-20[Alternate Title],by Clarence Edward Mulford[hcrruxxx.xxx]2546
Mar 2001 When God Laughs et al, by Jack London [JL #98-109][gdlghxxx.xxx]2545
Contains:
98. WHEN GOD LAUGHS
99. THE APOSTATE
100. A WICKED WOMAN
101. JUST MEAT
102. CREATED HE THEM
103. THE CHINAGO
104. MAKE WESTING
105. SEMPER IDEM
106. A NOSE FOR THE KING
107. THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
108. A CURIOUS FRAGMENT
109. A PIECE OF STEAK
Mar 2001 From Sand Hill to Pine, by Bret Harte[B Harte #22][fshtpxxx.xxx]2544
Mar 2001 Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille[Tr by T. Constable][plyctxxx.xxx]2543
Mar 2001 The Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen[Henrik Ibsen #5][dlshsxxx.xxx]2542
Mar 2001 Character, by Samuel Smiles [Samuel Smiles #6][crctrxxx.xxx]2541
Mar 2001 Father and Son [Autobiography], by Edmund Gosse [ftrsnxxx.xxx]2540
Mar 2001 The Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace V2[2malayxx.xxx]2539
Also see:
Feb 2001 The Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace V1[1malayxx.xxx]2530
Mar 2001 My Birthday. . .if you find something cute. :-) [ xxx.xxx]2538
Mar 2001 The Pocket R.L.S., by Robert Louis Stevenson [#39][pkrlsxxx.xxx]2537
Mar 2001 Amphitryon, A play by Moliere, Tr. by Waller [M#2][amphixxx.xxx]2536
Mar 2001 Openings in the Old Trail, by Bret Harte[Harte#21][oitotxxx.xxx]2535
Mar 2001 Eugene Pickering, by Henry James [James #29][eugpkxxx.xxx]2534
Mar 2001 Round the Sofa, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#8][rndsfxxx.xxx]2533
Mar 2001 The Half-Brothers, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#7][hlfbrxxx.xxx]2532
Mar 2001 An Accursed Race, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#6][accrcxxx.xxx]2531
Also released:
Jan 2001 Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, Pt 2 [Balzac#94][2rthcxxx.xxx]2469
Also see:
Jan 2001 Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, Pt 1 [Balzac#93][1rthcxxx.xxx]2468
And. . .we have these already prepared for next month:
Apr 2001 The first 498 Bernoulli Numbers[Math Constant #22][brnllxxx.xxx]2586
Apr 2001 The first 1001 Fibonacci Numbers[Math Constant#21][fbnccxxx.xxx]2585
Apr 2001 The first 1000 Euler Numbers [Math Constant #20][eulerxxx.xxx]2584
Apr 2001 The Value of Zeta(3) to 1,000,000 Places[Math #19][zeta3xxx.xxx]2583
The next six Etexts comprise the series "The Origins of Contemporary France"
by Hippolyte A. Taine. "The Origins of Contemporary France" = ocf
Apr 2001 The Modern Regime V2, by Hippolyte A. Taine OCF V6[06ocfxxx.xxx]2582
Apr 2001 The Modern Regime V1, by Hippolyte A. Taine OCF V5[05ocfxxx.xxx]2581
Apr 2001 The French Revolution V3, by Hippolyte Taine OCFV4[04ocfxxx.xxx]2580
Apr 2001 The French Revolution V2, by Hippolyte Taine OCFV3[03ocfxxx.xxx]2579
Apr 2001 The French Revolution V1, by Hippolyte Taine OCFV2[02ocfxxx.xxx]2578
Apr 2001 The Ancient Regime, by Hippolyte A. Taine OCF V1 [01ocfxxx.xxx]2577
Apr 2001 Alps and Sanctuaries, by Samuel Butler [Butler #5][alpsnxxx.xxx]2576
[Full Title: Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino]
Apr 2001 Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, by Colerige #2[cfinqxxx.xxx]2575
[Full: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc., by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]
Apr 2001 On the Frontier, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #28][frntrxxx.xxx]2574
Apr 2001 The Caged Lion, by Charlotte M. Yonge [Yonge #2] [cgdlnxxx.xxx]2573
Apr 2001 On the Decay of the Art of Lying, by Mark Twain 17[lyingxxx.xxx]2572
Apr 2001 Peace, by Aristophanes [Aristophanes #2][peacexxx.xxx]2571
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MICROSOFT TO ADOPT BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY
[See Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon for details,
but be forewarned, there is no ending to the book.]
Microsoft says it plans to incorporate biometric technology in its Windows
software that will enable users to sign on by brushing their fingertips
across a scanner rather than typing in a password. Biometric technology
scans the details of a person's fingerprints, iris patterns, facial
structure or other physical characteristics and compares them against a
database of stored user information. The company will use authentication
technology from I/O Software Inc. (Reuters/Los Angeles Times 3 May 2000)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000503/t000041568.html
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? DISNEY, SAYS TIME WARNER
Three and a half million homes cable customers across the U.S. were shut
out of ABC affiliate TV stations Monday as a result of a dispute between
Time Warner Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. The two media giants have been
negotiating for several months to form a new long-term agreement for Time
Warner's cable systems to carry channels from Disney, including ABC, the
Disney Channel and ESPN. Disney wants Time Warner to feature two new
channels and to make the Disney Channel part of its basic package. Time
Warner agreed but balked at the price and dropped affiliates in New York
City; Los Angeles; Houston; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Toledo, Ohio; parts of
Fresno, Calif., and Philadelphia. Each company blames the other for the
stalemate, witha Disney executive blasting, "Some deranged individual has
deprived all of these people of ABC. These people are arrogant
manipulators." A Time Warner spokesman says Disney is trying to extract
"excessive and unreasonable terms" for its cable TV channels. Until the
matter is settled, viewers are tuning into "Who Wants to be Millionaire"
the old-fashioned way -- by fiddling with their antennae.
(Washington Post 1 May 2000)
WEB PORTALS RETHINK THEIR BROADBAND PROMISES
[Big Bandwidth is so far 98% vaporware. . . .]
Faced with the reality that only a relative handful of Web surfers have
access to high-speed 'Net connections, portal sites Yahoo and Lycos have
quietly scaled back their plans for new applications and content designed
specifically for those users. Spurred by the merger of Excite.com with the
@Home Network last year, Lycos began development of a service dubbed "Lycos
Lightning" aimed at high-speed surfers. But that initiative has been moved
to the back burner, as has a similar effort by Yahoo. "We look at the
marketplace and say, 'Well, broadband certainly is important, but there's
50 narrowband connections still in the United States for every broadband
connection, so let's be careful about how much energy we put into
broadband,'" says one Lycos exec. Despite broadband's limited availability
today, analysts expect high-speed connections in the U.S. to reach as many
as 12.9 million households in two years. When that kind of critical mass is
reached, site operators will have no choice but to play to the broadband
market. (New York Times 1 May 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0_4_1779432_00.html
INTERNET TELEPHONY IS COMING INTO ITS OWN
[You can read about this in Cryptonomicon, too.]
If you think Internet communication is limited to e-mail and instant
messaging, think again. Last year, Internet Protocol (IP) networks carried
2.7 billion minutes of phone calls worldwide, and International Data Corp.
says that number could jump to 135 billion minutes by 2004, with nearly a
quarter of that usage occurring in Asia. One company hitching its wagon to
the IP telephony star is OCen Communications. OCen -- which stands for open
communications enterprise network and means "profound telecommunications"
in Chinese -- has built a private IP network linking Los Angeles to Asia,
enabling customers in California to place IP voice and fax calls to Japan,
South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan and eastern China. Now, the company
plans to sell its services to corporate customers in Asia for resale to
consumers. Thought OCen faces a slew of competition from Internet phone
carriers, it's the first to target the Asian business community, where
quality is more of a factor than cost. Other IP phone companies have made
price their big selling point. OCen is offering customers what amounts to a
virtual private network -- ensuring high-quality service and four-digit
dialing between company locations, even when those locations span several
national borders. (Los Angeles Times 1 May 2000)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000501/t000040913.html
CAN SCRATCH 'N SNIFF COMPUTERS BE FAR BEHIND?
[You heard it first from me. . .hee hee]
Shopping online for a Mother's Day gift and can't decide which perfume to
choose? Not a problem any more. TriSenx has patented a technology that will
let you click and smell. Using a device something like a desktop printer,
you can download a smell or taste from the Internet. A picture of a
strawberry, for example, both smells and tastes like, well, a strawberry.
The scent technology, which several companies have been working on, works
by mixing chemicals to create the desired smell. The scents are printed on
a cardstock paper now, but future plans call for them to print to a
communion-like wafer that would make it easier to sample tastes from the
Web. Will it catch on? At its current price of $398, skeptics abound. "If
it's going to be a couple of hundred bucks I'd be hard-pressed to see who's
going to go out and buy a smell generator," says one analyst. Numerous
businesses have expressed interest in the idea, including fragrance makers
and cookie companies. (San Jose Mercury News 1 May 2000)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/481779l.htm
NEW EU ENCRYPTION EXPORT RULE LOOSER THAN U.S.
The European Union has agreed to relax the rules for exporting encryption
software, lifting almost all restrictions on encryption exports among the 15
EU countries and 10 other countries -- the U.S., Japan, Canada, Switzerland,
Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland -- which
together make up over 80% of the world market. The new EU rules eliminate
the need to secure approval from national licensing bodies and do away with
security checks for all encryption products with the exception of so-called
crypto-analytic tools, which can be used to test systems and crack codes.
Companies will need only to promise that the end user of the encryption
product is in one of the 25 countries approved. Exports to countries outside
that group will be subject to current restrictions. The move puts U.S.
encryption companies once again at a disadvantage, despite a liberalization
of export rules that took effect in January. And although U.S. companies are
likely to respond by pushing for further reforms, it's not likely that the
government will oblige. (Wall Street Journal 28 Apr 2000)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB956867771608897487.htm
LOSING INTERNET WEALTH AT INTERNET SPEED
Among the many technology entrepreneurs who have seen market gyrations cause
their stock holdings to plummet is MicroStrategy founder and chief executive
Michael J. Saylor, who made news two months ago when he announced that he
was putting $100 million of his personal funds into the creation of an
online university. A MicroStrategy spokesman says that Saylor will continue
his plans to make that donation, even though the market value of his
personal stake in the company has dropped from a high of $13.6 billion to
$1.07 billion at close of the market yesterday. (Washington Post 28 Apr 2000)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29010-2000Apr27.html
JUDGE WANTS HACKER OFF THE LECTURE CIRCUIT
[Is this EX POST FACTO as prohibited in the US Constitution?]
When he was released on probation after having been imprisoned almost five
years for network vandalism, Kevin Mitnick was ordered to stay completely
away from computers, cell phones, and the Internet for three years. The
judge, assuming that Mitnick would have to find some minimum-wage job,
didn't think of ordering him not to give speeches about his knowledge of
hacking. To rectify her oversight, U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer is
now telling him she'll send him back to jail if he doesn't get off the
lecture circuit. Mitnick says, "They're saying I can no longer write or
speak about technology issues. I think it is an abrogation of my First
Amendment rights... Probation is not supposed to be punitive...They don't
like the idea of my being a celebrity. They are trying to chill my free
speech in hopes that my notoriety will die down." (AP/San Jose Mercury News
28 Apr 2000)
JUSTICE APPROVES VIACOM-CBS MERGER
[More Merger Mania]
The Justice Department has okayed Viacom's $47-billion purchase of CBS, and
the Federal Communications Commission has indicated it, too, plans to
approve the megamerger. In its recommendation for approval, the FCC's Mass
Media Bureau said the combined company should be given a year to comply
with the 35% audience limit and six months to sell off two radio stations or
a TV station in Dallas, in order to comply with media ownership rules. The
Bureau also recommended that Viacom-CBS be allowed to keep UPN for one year,
during which time the FCC likely will relax its dual-network prohibition.
(Hollywood Reporter 27 Apr 2000)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/frontpage/index.asp?ee
MICROSOFT COUNTS ON TEEN WHIZZES FOR THE FUTURE
Microsoft has seen the future and it is young. So it's hired two teenagers
-- Michael Furdyk, 17, and Jennifer Corriero, 19 -- to explain to Microsoft
executives the new generation's philosophy of work and play. "People's lives
used to be all about education, then work, then retirement or fun or
whatever," says Corriero. "But what's happening with us is that all three of
these things are all mixed in together. We're always learning, we like our
work so we're working more, and we're working when we want to, and we're
having fun now as opposed to later." One example of how things are changing
is that younger people seem to prefer online chat meetings as opposed to
conference room get-togethers. They feel they can communicate more
thoughtfully by writing, can work on other projects while waiting for a
response, and can walk away from the meeting with a written record of all
that was discussed. (AP/Los Angeles Times 27 Apr 2000)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000427/t000039487.html
COMPUTER GIANTS SEEK SAVINGS THROUGH B2B PARTNERSHIP
Taking their cue from "old economy" veterans who have formed
business-to-business partnerships to help reduce supply costs, three of the
top five computer companies -- Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway --
announced they have joined with nine suppliers to launch a new "online
marketplace company." The enterprise initially will be a catalog of
products from each participant and later will link buyers and sellers.
Eventually it's expected to speed up the design and manufacture of new
products and will include telecom and consumer electronics components.
Backers, who estimate savings will be between 5% to 7%, are actively
seeking other players, including Internet software and services suppliers.
Pioneer partners are chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Samsung
Electronics, Infineon Technologies, NEC Corp. and Hitachi Ltd.; disk-drive
makers Quantum Corp. and Western Digital; and printed circuit-board makers
Solectron Corp. and SCI Systems Inc. The new company is expected to be up
and running in 90 days. IBM announced it is developing a similar exchange.
(San Jose Mercury News 1 May 2000)
SCI FI WRITER WINS PRIZE CREATED FOR ONLINE VISUAL ARTISTS
[No. . .I swear. . .I didn't get to this one until just now, didn't know!]
By-passing 250 official entries in the Internet category of the Prix Ars
Electronica international computer-arts competition sponsored by the
Austrian Broadcasting Company, the jurors gave the prize to science fiction
author Neal Stephenson ("Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon'), who didn't even
enter the contest and isn't even a visual artist. One juror said
off-the-record: "It was a good way to make the comment that the work we were
seeing wasn't as original, and also to credit Neal Stephenson because he's
directly inspired so many developers." (New York Times 27 Apr 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/cyber/artsatlarge/27artsatlarge.html
OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED AOL-TIME WARNER MERGER
The Consumers Union, the Consumer Federation of America, the Center for
Media Education, and the Media Access Project will file petitions with the
Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission in
opposition to the proposed merger of America Online and Time Warner, which
the groups say will add "a dangerous new dimension to the merging structure
of the cable TV-broadband-Internet industry." AOL and Time Warner say that,
to the contrary, the merger "will deliver tremendous benefits to consumers,
bringing people around the world more choice and more convenience and
accelerating the rollout of broadband services." (Washington Post 26 Apr 2000)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13380-2000Apr25.html
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NEW VOICE IN PORTALS
A number of Internet startups are creating voice portals that
allow users to access the Internet using a telephone rather than
a computer. Users call a toll-free number and speak commands to
navigate the Internet. Tellme Networks has built a voice portal
that allows users to choose from various categories of
information, including stock quotes, weather reports, and
restaurant and movie listings. Using speech recognition
technology, the portal takes in a caller's selection, finds the
requested information online, and reads the information aloud.
Voice portal developers expect to eventually create voice sites
that users would navigate by speaking keywords. The market for
using the phone to provide Internet access and direct users to
businesses could reach $5.5 billion, says Mark Plakias of Kelsey
Group. Voice portals could help narrow the digital divide since
telephones are so widely available and easy to use.
(SiliconValley.com, 30 April 2000)
EPA TO LIMIT WEB INFORMATION
[Beaten to death from both sides.]
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided that it will not
publish specific information on the Internet about toxic waste
sites and other dangerous chemicals residing in manufacturing
plants for fear that terrorists will use the information to
launch an attack. The EPA had previously planned to make such
information public, but objections were raised by FBI and Justice
Department officials, who felt that the information could be used
by people with bad intent to facilitate an attack on a chemical
plant. New EPA and Justice Department regulations will be
released today. Omitted from the Internet will be information
relating to the size of the population surrounding chemical
plants, the type and breadth of a toxic cloud that could develop
if there were an accident at a chemical plant, and disaster
scenarios that could occur if such an accident took place.
(Washington Post, 27 April 2000)
A LAPTOP FOR EVERY KID
Four years after the principal of a Bloomfield, Conn., school
initiated an effort to supply all of its students and teachers
with laptops and wireless Internet access, other school systems
across the country are seeking to act on bold plans of their own
to provide their students with such technology. In Maine, the
state legislature will vote this week on a proposal by Gov. Angus
King that would supply all of the state's 17,000 seventh-graders
with laptops, as well as the new seventh-graders of each school
year. Although King wanted to use as much as $50 million of the
state's budget surplus to wire students, a compromise has reduced
that amount to $30 million, which would also be used to establish
a permanent endowment with its interest to be used to help buy
the computers. In New York City, the board of education has
already voted to pursue an initiative that could fund laptop
purchases for every student in fourth grade and higher in nine
years. With its April 12 unanimous vote, a school Internet
portal will be created, and the Web site will make money by
selling ads and licensing e-commerce sites. New York's 1.1
million public school students will obtain e-mail service through
the portal. (Time, 1 May 2000)
COMPANIES, SCHOOLS DO MATH: TECH PAYS
The effects of the digital divide are perhaps most evident in
Silicon Valley, where high-tech workers are regularly becoming
millionaires while many non-tech workers cannot afford to pay
rent. With local workers filling only two-thirds of high-tech
labor needs, the industry is losing $3 billion a year in
productivity and high salaries needed to keep workers, according
to the business, government, and education think tank Joint
Venture: Silicon Valley. Although Silicon Valley is renowned for
technology, the region's schools are unable to meet demand for
technical classes because of poor funding and a lack of qualified
teachers. Schools have had to cancel technology classes because
teachers, frustrated with low salaries, are entering the
high-tech field. Some companies are trying to create a skilled
labor pool by providing training and equipment to local high
schools and community colleges. Meanwhile, Joint Venture:
Silicon Valley urges local high-tech companies to send workers to
teach at community colleges to "spread the wealth" of Silicon
Valley. (Investor's Business Daily, 26 April 2000)
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Comments About Our New Files
Congratulaions to Derek Thompson, from the Antipodes,
for the completion of Carlyle's 21 volume history of
Frederick The Great.
The final volumes are:
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 21[21frdxxx.xxx]2121
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 20[20frdxxx.xxx]2120
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 19[19frdxxx.xxx]2119
and
#2122 is an appendix of the entire collection. . .this file is currenty
appended at the end of #2121, and I will divide the two files shortly.
This was NOT Derek's fault. . .he sent two separate files. . . . :-)
Index Listings for the New Files
This part has not changed, but parts below it have been added.
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Feb 2001 The Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace [1malayxx.xxx]2530
Feb 2001 The Analysis of Mind, by Bertrand Russell [anlmdxxx.xxx]2529
Feb 2001 The Women of the French Salons, Amelia Gere Mason [frsalxxx.xxx]2528
Feb 2001 The Sorrows of Young Werther, by J.W. Goethe [#31][sywerxxx.xxx]2527
Feb 2001 The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Charles Johnston [patanxxx.xxx]2526
Feb 2001 John Ingerfield etc by Jerome K. Jerome [#25][jhnngxxx.xxx]2525
Feb 2001 My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell [Gaskell #7][ldyldxxx.xxx]2524
Feb 2001 The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, by Victor Hugo[Hugo#2][vhugoxxx.xxx]2523
Feb 2001 A Dark Night's Work, by Elizabeth Gaskell [EG #6][drknwxxx.xxx]2522
Feb 2001 Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#EG 5][lzlghxxx.xxx]2521
Feb 2001 The Man, by Bram Stoker [Bram Stoker #3][thmanxxx.xxx]2520
Feb 2001 Zambesi Expedition, by David Livingstone [#2][zambsxxx.xxx]2519
Feb 2001 History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Ross[impjnxxx.xxx]2518
Feb 2001 Lincoln's Yarns and Stories, Alexander McClure [lioysxxx.xxx]2517
Feb 2001 Redgauntlet, by Sir Walter Scott [Scott #11][ redgxxx.xxx]2516
Feb 2001 Stepping Heavenward, by Mrs. E. Prentiss [stphwxxx.xxx]2515
Feb 2001 God the Known and God the Unknown, Samuel Butler [godkuxxx.xxx]2513
Feb 2001 The Cruise of the Snark, Jack London [London #97][crsnkxxx.xxx]2512
Feb 2001 The History of Henry Esmond, by Thackeray[WMT #12][hnryexxx.xxx]2511
[This may be updated when further proofreading is completed:]
Feb 2001 The Invention of a New Religion, B.H. Chamberlain [invnrxxx.xxx]2510
Feb 2001 The Lani People, by J. F. Bone [ lanixxx.xxx]2509
[Also available as lani10.htm, an HTML version:. . .will revise name, I hope]
[Possibly other changes. . .in these Lani files]
Feb 2001 Stories in Light and Shadow, by Bret Harte [#20][slgtsxxx.xxx]2508
Feb 2001 Complete Poetical Works, by Bret Harte [Harte #19][cpwbhxxx.xxx]2507
Feb 2001 The Sleeping-Car by William D. Howells[Howells #6][slpcrxxx.xxx]2506
Feb 2001 The Heir of Redclyffe, by Charlotte M. Younge [redclxxx.xxx]2505
Feb 2001 Some Cities & San Fran. & Resurgam, H. H. Bancroft[sfresxxx.xxx]2504
Feb 2001 Myths and Legends of Calif. and the Old Southwest [mlcalxxx.xxx]2503
Feb 2001 Chitra, a Play in One Act, by Rabindranath Tagore [chitrxxx.xxx]2502
Feb 2001 A Face Illumined, by E. P. Roe [afacexxx.xxx]2501
Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [Our English Edition] [8siddxxx.xxx]2500
[[And I hope to have at least the opening section posted soon. . . . Michael]
Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [In 8-bit German] [8siddxxx.xxx]2499
Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [In 7-bit German] [7siddxxx.xxx]2499
Feb 2001 Addresses, by Henry Drummond [addrexxx.xxx]2498
Feb 2001 Put Yourself in His Place, by Charles Reade [#4][phyipxxx.xxx]2497
Feb 2001 Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford [ vllgxxx.xxx]2496
Feb 2001 Susy, A Story of the Plains, by Bret Harte [#12][ susyxxx.xxx]2495
Feb 2001 The story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka, by W.T. Kane[stanixxx.xxx]2494
Feb 2001 Adventures of Paddy the Beaver, Thornton W.Burgess[paddyxxx.xxx]2493
Feb 2001 Orpheus in Mayfair & Other Stories, Maurice Baring[orphexxx.xxx]2492
Feb 2001 Love or Fame; et. al., by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick[lvrfmxxx.xxx]2491
and:
These were posted for March 2001:
Mar 2001 Eugene Pickering, by Henry James [James #29][eugpkxxx.xxx]2534
Mar 2001 Round the Sofa, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#8][rndsfxxx.xxx]2533
Mar 2001 The Half-Brothers, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#7][hlfbrxxx.xxx]2532
Mar 2001 An Accursed Race, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#6][accrcxxx.xxx]2531
The following files were updated:
in /etext00:
21frd10.txt
21frd10.zip
7malt12.txt
7malt12.zip
8malt12.txt
8malt12.zip
cbtls11.txt
cbtls11.zip
in /etext99:
zdbsn11.txt
zdbsn11.zip
in /etext94:
persu11.txt
persu11.zip
Feb 2001 Susy, A Story of the Plains, by Bret Harte[BH #18][ susyxxx.xxx]2495
[This was listed as BH #16 previously, changed to BH #18:]
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Notes from Edupage and News Scan [over a longer period than usual,
sorry, I forgot to include them in last month's Newsletter. mh
From Newsscan
NSA DENIES BEING INFO VACUUM CLEANER
The head of the National Security Agency (NSA), the secretive agency that
has been accused by some civil liberties groups and some foreign countries
of using a satellite communications system code-named "Echelon" to spy on
huge numbers of private phone calls, e-mail messages, and faxes, says that
all such accusations are unfounded. In an appearance before a House
subcommittee NSA director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden testified: "There is a
rich body of oversight that ensures that we stay within the law. Can you
imagine the capacity that would be required if we in any way approached the
allegations we're sweeping up everything in the universe? This ability to
vacuum up -- that's badly misstated in the popular press. We don't have that
capability and we don't want that capability. For both legal and operational
reasons there is a requirement that we focus on the highest priority foreign
intelligence targets that we have." (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 12 Apr 2000)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/420275l.htm
"LORD OF THE RINGS" DOWNLOADS TOP 1.5 MILLION
A Net-only preview of "The Lord of the Rings" was downloaded almost 1.7
million times in the first 24 hours it was available, says Apple Computer,
one of the companies providing downloads. The number exceeds the record set
by the trailer for "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace," which
claimed 1 million downloads in its first day. The two-minute preview (found
at http://www.lordoftherings.net ) features battle scenes, special effects
footage and interviews wih some of the stars. Enthusiastic viewers will
have to wait a while for the rest of the show, however: the first movie in
the "Rings" trilogy -- "The Fellowship of the Ring" -- isn't due out until
Christmas 2001, with the other two movies to follow later. (Variety 11 Apr
2000) http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117780448
Does anyone know the size of these two files??? mh
IRIDIUM FLAMES OUT (LITERALLY)
Iridium, the bankrupt global satellite telephone corporation that spent $5
billion on the creation of a communications system for "anyone, anytime,
virtually anywhere in the world," will soon start sending 88 giant
satellites hurtling from the skies and burning up before they reach Earth.
Noting that the expensive Iridium phones could not even be used indoors,
industry-watcher and financial analyst James Grant says, "It was a
technology that didn't live up to its hype or its billing. People chose to
overlook the risks because they were bedazzled by the technology and the
promoters or sponsors." (New York Times 11 Apr 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/biztech/articles/11iridium.html
GIRLS PUT OFF BY "TEDIOUS AND DULL" COMPUTER COURSES
A study from an educational foundation affiliated with the American
Association of University Women suggests that the reason that only one-fifth
of high tech jobs are held by women is not that girls in middle school and
high school are afraid of technology but that they're bored by it
www.aauw.org/2000/techsavvy.html/. The report proposes making computer
science courses less "tedious and dull," redesigning computer games for
girls, and reshaping the image of computer workers: "When asked, girls and
women describe a prevailing concern that computer science will stunt their
diverse range of intellectual pursuits and interests. Girls tend to imagine
that computer professionals live in a solitary, anti-social and sedentary
world." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11 Apr 2000)
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/today/news_832f1c4
df11080f60043.htm
TUVALU HITS THE INTERNET JACKPOT
An IdeaLab startup called DotTV has agreed to pay the tiny Pacific island
nation of Tuvalu $50 million in royalties -- or about three times the
country's gross domestic product -- for the right to sell Internet domain
names ending in ".tv." IdeaLab figures DotTV can make millions selling such
URLs as www.Law&Order.tv and www.ABC.tv. The company anticipates selling .tv
names for several thousands of dollars each, although some may go for much
more. "It's the most recognizable two-letter symbol on the planet," says
DotTV CEO Lou Kerner. "When you marry 'dot' with 'TV,' you become something
very meaningful [on] the Internet." Besides, "everybody knows the problems
with dot-com -- it's cluttered, it has no cachet, and it's difficult or
impossible to get the name you want." More than 8 million ".com" names have
been registered, compared with 1 million ending in ".net" and ".org." (Los
Angeles Times 7 Apr 2000)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000407/t000032588.html
NYC SCHOOL SYSTEM PLANS TO SWAP ADS FOR LAPTOPS
New York City school officials, working with executives of companies such as
IBM, Cisco and Toshiba, have come up with a plan under which computer
companies would distribute laptop computers to city school children and in
return receive advertising space on a Web site developed for school use. One
task member who devised the plan called it "a major shift in the ways we
think about teaching and learning and how we fund these activities," and
another described it as "a means of bridging the digital divide." But an
executive of the National PTA was skeptical of the plan: "We have a great
deal of concern about the negative potential of using children to promote
commercial concerns and using class time for things that could be considered
as advertisements." (New York Times 7 Apr 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/biztech/articles/07portal.html
ENCRYPTION CODE PROTECTED BY FIRST AMENDMENT
A federal appeals court in Ohio has ruled that encryption software code is
protected by the First Amendment because such code is a means of
communication between computer programmers. The ruling represents the first
time that a federal appellate court has decided software code is protected
as free speech, says Raymond Vasvari, legal director of the American Civil
Liberties Union: "This is a great day for programmers, computer scientists,
and all Americans who believe that privacy and intellectual freedom should
be free from government control." The court's decision means a lawsuit filed
by Cleveland law professor Peter Junger will be reconsidered. Junger had
claimed that the government violated his free-speech rights by requiring
export licenses for encryption programs. (Wall Street Journal 5 Apr 2000)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB954899134353800815.htm
YET ANOTHER "MONOPOLY"? AOL SUED BY SMALL ISP
Galaxy Internet Services Inc., a small Internet service provider in
Massachusetts, is suing America Online, charging that it "attempted to
eliminate competition in the Internet service market" when it introduced new
software (AOL 5.0) that blocks AOL subscribers from using other Internet
service providers. About 8% of America Online subscribers also use some
other ISP, and Galaxy is hoping to be joined it its suit by other
competitors of AOL. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 4 Apr 2000)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/391482l.htm
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FCC ALLOTS $2.25 BILLION TO WIRE LIBRARIES, SCHOOLS
The FCC announced that it will provide full funding--$2.25
billion--to the e-rate program this year. The e-rate program,
now in its third year, wires U.S. schools, libraries, and
communities for Internet access. The new funding means that
about 1 million U.S. classrooms will be connected to the
Internet, said Vice President Al Gore. The e-rate program
generated more than 36,000 requests for funding this year, and
FCC Chairman William Kennard says that although not all these
requests will be met, the new funding will further the goal of
eventually providing Internet access to every classroom in the
nation. (Associated Press, 13 April 2000)
MICROSOFT ACKNOWLEDGES ITS ENGINEERS PLACED SECURITY FLAW IN SOME SOFTWARE
Microsoft engineers deliberately placed a file in some of the
company's Internet-server software that could allow hackers to
obtain Web site management files from thousands of sites, the
software giant admitted yesterday after two security experts
reported the flaw. The secret password violates Microsoft's
policy and is a firing offense for the still unidentified
programmers who wrote the code, said Microsoft security response
center manager Steve Lipner. Microsoft will warn users through
e-mail and on its Web site to delete the file named "dvwssr.dll"
that is installed on the company's Internet server software with
Frontpage 98 extensions. Many Web sites use the software, and
hackers could use the password to access site management files,
which could lead to the discovery of information such as credit
card numbers. The three-year-old software was written at the
height of the browser wars between Microsoft and Netscape, and
the illicit code includes a slur referring to Netscape engineers
as "weenies." Security experts say the file is a major security
threat, especially to commercial Internet-hosting providers.
(Wall Street Journal, 14 April 2000)
REPORT URGES CHANGE IN MALE-DOMINATED CULTURE OF COMPUTING
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) planned to
release a study on Monday urging changes in high-tech culture to
make the field more appealing to girls and women. Female high
school students now represent just 17 percent of those taking the
Advanced Placement test for college credit, the report says.
Furthermore, the study says women account for only 28 percent of
the bachelor's degrees in computer science, and just 20 percent
of IT workers. Female students are not interested in the
computer culture they associate with violent software games and
adolescent males, says Sherry Turkle, MIT sociology professor and
cochair of the commission that wrote the report. The commission
suggests that girls should be encouraged to use technology at an
early age through computer clubs and other activities. The study
says boys are more likely than girls to have their own computers
and to attend computer camps, and even the time boys spend
playing computer games makes them more comfortable with
technology. Increasing female interest in technology could help
ease the shortage of high-tech workers and close the wage gap
between men and women, the study says.
(Knight Ridder, 10 April 2000)
CROSSING AMAZON
Fiercely independent bookseller Powell's Books has won a
following by retaining its intimate feel while dealing online
with a national audience. The company, which sells mainly used
books, has managed to hold its own in the face of competition
from slick corporate rivals such as Amazon.com. Powell's credits
its success to an independent-minded, intellectual customer base
and a bare-bones approach to business. While Amazon.com targets
the general public with a range of best-sellers, Powell's caters
to academic types with intellectual tomes such as Milan Kundera's
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and books by small
publishers. Powell's keeps its Web operations at a minimum: 35
people fill orders, four develop site features, and four handle
computer programming. Powell's low overhead has enabled it to
make a profit--an accomplishment that even Amazon.com has yet to
achieve. Powell's is currently expanding its business by selling
textbooks online directly to students. While Powell's previously
sold textbooks to university bookstores, it switched to direct
sales when the model became popular. (Forbes, 17 April 2000)
NORTEL HIRES READY-MADE TEAM OF 34 SCU STUDENTS
Nortel Networks shocked many in business and academia when it
offered jobs to each of the 38 Santa Clara University
undergraduate engineering students who attended its November
recruiting banquet. Thirty-four students accepted the
job offers, which were made following dinner by Nortel Vice
President Mario Bruketa. Each student received a Federal Express
packet the next day containing the employment offer letters.
Starting salaries reportedly ranged from $53,000 to $72,000.
Students who accepted within the first week received a signing
bonus and those who accepted during the second week received half
of the bonus. Some students are believed to have received stock
options as well. Some critics, including university officials and
executives from other companies, believe such "blanket hiring" is
not necessarily beneficial because it prevents students from
examining options with other companies and limits their focus and
subsequent experience. (SiliconValley.com, 5 April 2000)
CLINTON ANNOUNCES PROGRAMS TO GIVE INTERNET ACCESS TO THE POOR
Warning that the digital divide is a threat that will grow,
President Clinton announced Tuesday he would discuss potential
solutions to the problem during a two-day tour of several states
this month. Clinton's third "New Market" tour, taking place April
17-18, will take him from Palo Alto, Calif., to Chicago, which is
hosting the Comdex computer conference. A week later Clinton will
be in North Carolina to focus attention on the broadband needs of
rural areas. With effort, the Internet's explosive potential can
be leveraged to combat the digital divide, Clinton said, as he
announced several initiatives including $12.5 million in funding
from the Corporation of National Service for the development of a
750-person volunteer force to provide technical assistance in
schools and community centers; $1 million in advertising from
Yahoo! to recruit these volunteers; a $3 million partnership
between 3Com and the YWCA to train teenage girls about
technology; and an "information literacy" program from the
American Library Association. (Associated Press, 4 April 2000)
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of you are willing. . . .]
Besides I think that we did not get as much enthusiasm as expected from the
potential volunteers, but anyway I will keep going at my own pace. In this
context I would like to tell you that I have a file of a book written by
Francisco de Quevedo called "El buscsn" (a classic from the spanish golden
age) ready to get proofed. Is it possible to ask for help with this one?
I also have the book (46 files for the moment) of poems by a cuban writer
(Josi Martm: Versos Sencillos [Maybe you know it because it was sung by
people like Pete Seeger or Joan Baez]) and another spanish classic (Amadms
de Gaula written by Garci Rodrmguez de Montalvo. This is in 138 files and
it is a kind of Don Quijote with regard to the date and type).
I will go working on these and letting you know about my progress. As soon
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volunteers to try to forward a little the spanish etexts group unless
someone else would do it.
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You can subscribe to a listserver on copyright extension at:
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http://davinci.marc.gatech.edu/~tad/dennis/no-cense.htm
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The Internet Archive, of which I am a Fellow for the year 2000,
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other information sources. This is obviously only on step away
from everyone's "Dream Storage Unit" of a Petabyte. Everyone
thought I was just being silly when I said we might have to
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Benched with program: Landmark Speed 2.00
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Computer performs like due to wide bus words
5160 MHz AT Computer 6450 MHz AT
With a 13600 MHz 80287 17000 MHz 80287
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Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 20[20frdxxx.xxx]2120
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 19[19frdxxx.xxx]2119
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 18[18frdxxx.xxx]2118
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 17[17frdxxx.xxx]2117
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Jan 2001 The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch's "Lives", by White [tbagpxxx.xxx]2484
In some previous editions of our Newsletter this was "Dec 2000's Etext #2445"
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*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [In 8-bit German] [8siddxxx.xxx]2499
Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [In 7-bit German] [7siddxxx.xxx]2499
Jan 2001 Lamia, by John Keats [Poetry/Poem] [John Keats #1][lamiaxxx.xxx]2490
Jan 2001 Moby Dick [Chapter 72+] Herman Melville HM #3][mobydxxx.xxx]2489
[We are going to need help with this one, see request above. . .we have 135
or so individual files, one for each chapter [122 may be missing] and many
of them are in different formats. . .this could be a labor of love. . .mh]
This is a perfect example of how much effort we put into copyright research!
We have received many versions of Chapter 72 over the years, but none of them
were ones we would PROVE were in the Public Domain under our copyright laws.
[Please note: We originally received Moby Dick from Online Book Initiative,
10 years ago and it was released as our Etext #15, a very important milestone.
However, it did not include Chapter 72, which we are releasing now, and I am
asking our Directors of Production to create a new edition of Moby Dick, all
in one file [our past edition, which will not be changed, was a zip file with
about 135 files in it. . .please understand how unzipping 135 files might have
affected a drive from 10 years ago.] This new file currently contains ONLY a
copy of Chapter 72, and will hopefully contain the entire book very shortly.]
Jan 2001 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne[#13][2000010a.xxx]2488*
This is a brand new original critical translation based on several editions.]
*RESERVED* At this very moment we are still converting from WordPerfect 6.1.
If you are a WP Wizard, we could certainly use your assistance. . . . . . .!]
Also see our first edition, to see just how much difference there can be....
Sep 1994 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne[Verne#3][2000010x.xxx] 164
Jan 2001 Cross Roads, by Margaret E. Sangster [crsrdxxx.xxx]2487
Jan 2001 Queer Little Folks, by Harriet Beecher Stowe[HBS2][qltfkxxx.xxx]2486
Jan 2001 Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, by Darwin[cplntxxx.xxx]2485
Jan 2001 The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch's "Lives", by White [tbagpxxx.xxx]2484
Jan 2001 Janice Day, Young Homemaker, by Helen Beecher Long[jncdyxxx.xxx]2483
Jan 2001 New York, by James Fenimore Cooper[J.F. Cooper #6][nwyrkxxx.xxx]2482
Jan 2001 The Civilization of Illiteracy (C)Mihai Nadin 1997[cviltxxx.xxx]2481C
Jan 2001 Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad[Joseph Conrad25][wstysxxx.xxx]2480
Jan 2001 The Friendly Road, by David Grayson [Ray S. Baker][frnrdxxx.xxx]2479
The following are from "The Circus Boys" series:
Each title starts with "The Cirucs Boys" = TCB here
We are presenting the first 2 now, 3 more reserved.
Jan 2001 TCB On The Plains, by Edgar B.P. Darlington [CB#5][05tcbxxx.xxx]2478
Jan 2001 TCB On The Mississippi, by Edgar Darlington [CB#4][04tcbxxx.xxx]2477
Jan 2001 TCB in Dixie Land, by Edgar B.P. Darlington [CB#3][03tcbxxx.xxx]2476
Jan 2001 TCB Across The Continent, by Edg. Darlington[CB#2][02tcbxxx.xxx]2475
[At this moment only the first 3 are posted, let me know if you have margin
problems with #2, we have another version we could try.]
Jan 2001 TCB On The Flying Rings, by Edg. Darlington [CB#1][01tcbxxx.xxx]2474
Jan 2001 Mary-'Gusta by Joseph C. Lincoln [J.C. Lincoln #4][mrygtxxx.xxx]2473
Jan 2001 White Lies, by Charles Reade [Charles Reade #3][whtlsxxx.xxx]2472
Jan 2001 The Crusade of the Excelsior, Bret Harte[Harte#17][tcotexxx.xxx]2471
Jan 2001 Samual Brohl & Company, by Victor Cherbuliez[CB#2][brohlxxx.xxx]2470
Also see:
Jan 2000 Stories of Modern French Novels: Scribners Ed. [sbmfaxxx.xxx]2047
Jan 2001 Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, Pt 2 [Balzac#94][2rthcxxx.xxx]2469*
Jan 2001 Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, Pt 1 [Balzac#93][1rthcxxx.xxx]2468
[This is an index of Comedie Humaine characters and event, Pt 2 is not ready]
Jan 2001 Ghosts, A Domestic Tragedy, by Henrik Ibsen[HI #4][ghstsxxx.xxx]2467
Jan 2001 Virgin Soil, by Ivan S. Turgenev[Ivan Turgenev #1][vgnslxxx.xxx]2466
Jan 2001 Carmen, by Prosper Merimee [Basis of Carmen Opera][carmnxxx.xxx]2465
Jan 2001 History of Florence and...Italy, by Machiavelli #4[hflitxxx.xxx]2464
Jan 2001 The Prophet of Berkeley Square, by Robert Hichens [tpobsxxx.xxx]2463
Jan 2001 Dona Perfecta, by B. Perez Galdos/Trans by Serrano[donapxxx.xxx]2462
Jan 2001 The Lady of Lyons, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[EBL #6][ladylxxx.xxx]2461
Jan 2001 The Madonna of the Future, by Henry James [HJ #28][mdftrxxx.xxx]2460
Jan 2001 Trent's Trust & Other Stories, by Bret Harte [#16][ttaosxxx.xxx]2459
Jan 2001 Sermons on the Card, by Hugh Latimer [srmcdxxx.xxx]2458
Jan 2001 Stories by English Authors in Italy, Scribners, Ed[sbeaixxx.xxx]2457
only on prairienet right now, can't get to metalab.unc.edu OR archive.org
dagny
Also see our Stories by Enlish Authors in France, Germany, Africa, etc, etc.]
CONTENTS
A FAITHFUL RETAINER, by James Payn
BIANCA, by W. E. Norris
GONERIL, by A. Mary F. Robinson
THE BRIGAND'S BRIDE, by Laurence Oliphant
MRS. GENERAL TALBOYS, by Anthony Trollope
Jan 2001 The History of Herodotus V2 by Herodotus/ Macauley[2hofhxxx.xxx]2456
[Note: This is V2, we do NOT have V1, and this is G. C. Macaulay, not T. B.]
[We found V1 from John Ockerbloom, but it is copyrighted, so we need proofers
to set it back to the original uncopyright format.]
Jan 2001 History of the Catholic Church, V 2 by MacCaffrey [2hcthxxx.xxx]2455
Also see:
Nov 2000 History of the Catholic Church, by J. MacCaffrey [hcathxxx.xxx]2396
Jan 2001 The Silent Bullet, by Arthur B. Reeve[AB Reeve #2][sblltxxx.xxx]2454
Jan 2001 Beyond, by John Galsworthy [John Galsworthy #3][byondxxx.xxx]2453
Jan 2001 Shavings, by Joseph C. Lincoln [shavsxxx.xxx]2452
Jan 2001 Caught In The Net, by Emile Gaboriau [Gaboriau #5][cnnetxxx.xxx]2451
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Jan 2001 Carmen, by Prosper Merimee [Basis of Carmen Opera][carmnxxx.xxx]2465
Jan 2001 History of Florence and...Italy, by Machiavelli #4[hflitxxx.xxx]2464
Jan 2001 The Prophet of Berkeley Square, by Robert Hichens [tpobsxxx.xxx]2463
Jan 2001 Dona Perfecta, by B. Perez Galdos/Trans by Serrano[donapxxx.xxx]2462
Jan 2001 The Lady of Lyons, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[EBL #6][ladylxxx.xxx]2461
Jan 2001 The Madonna of the Future, by Henry James [HJ #28][mdftrxxx.xxx]2460
Jan 2001 Trent's Trust & Other Stories, by Bret Harte [#16][ttaosxxx.xxx]2459
Jan 2001 Sermons on the Card, by Hugh Latimer [srmcdxxx.xxx]2458
Jan 2001 Stories by English Authors in Italy, Scribners, Ed[sbeaixxx.xxx]2457
Also see our Stories by Enlish Authors in France, Germany, Africa, etc, etc.]
CONTENTS
A FAITHFUL RETAINER, by James Payn
BIANCA, by W. E. Norris
GONERIL, by A. Mary F. Robinson
THE BRIGAND'S BRIDE, by Laurence Oliphant
MRS. GENERAL TALBOYS, by Anthony Trollope
Jan 2001 The History of Herodotus V2 by Herodotus/ Macauley[2hofhxxx.xxx]2456
[Note: This is V2, we do NOT have V1, and this is G. C. Macaulay, not T. B.]
Jan 2001 History of the Catholic Church, V 2 by MacCaffrey [2hcthxxx.xxx]2455
Also see:
Nov 2000 History of the Catholic Church, by J. MacCaffrey [hcathxxx.xxx]2396
Jan 2001 The Silent Bullet, by Arthur B. Reeve[AB Reeve #2][sblltxxx.xxx]2454
Jan 2001 Beyond, by John Galsworthy [John Galsworthy #3][byondxxx.xxx]2453
Jan 2001 Shavings, by Joseph C. Lincoln [shavsxxx.xxx]2452
Jan 2001 Caught In The Net, by Emile Gaboriau [Gaboriau #5][cnnetxxx.xxx]2451
Dec 2000 Boyhood, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Leo Tolstoy #8][boyhdxxx.xxx]2450
Dec 2000 The Common Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [#3][cmnlwxxx.xxx]2449
Dec 2000 The Colored Cadet at West Point, by Henry Flipper [ccawpxxx.xxx]2448
Dec 2000 Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey [mnvctxxx.xxx]2447
Dec 2000 An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen #3][aeotpxxx.xxx]2446
Dec 2000 Letters on England, by Voltaire [Voltaire #1][ltengxxx.xxx]2445
Dec 2000 Oxford [City & University], by Andrew Lang[AL #25][oxfrdxxx.xxx]2444
Dec 2000 The Story of the Mormons by William Alexander Linn[tsotmxxx.xxx]2443
Dec 2000 History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson[Pres][hioajxxx.xxx]2442
Dec 2000 The Burgess Animal Book for Children, by Burgess 2[babfcxxx.xxx]2441
Dec 2000 The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Bates[notraxxx.xxx]2440
Dec 2000 History of England, James II> Vol. 2, Macaulay[#9][2hoejxxx.xxx]2439
See also:
Sep 1998 History of England, James II> Vol. 1, Macaulay[#2][1hoejxxx.xxx]1468
Dec 2000 Daphne, An Autumn Pastoral, by Margaret Sherwood [daphnxxx.xxx]2438
Dec 2000 They and I, by Jerome K. Jerome[Jerome Jerome #23][theyixxx.xxx]2437
Dec 2000 The Marriages, by Henry James [Henry James #25][tmrgsxxx.xxx]2436
Dec 2000 The Crimson Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang [Lang #24][crfryxxx.xxx]2435
Dec 2000 The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon [F. Bacon #2][nwatlxxx.xxx]2434
Dec 2000 Donal Grant, by George MacDonald [G MacDonald #9][dgrntxxx.xxx]2433
Dec 2000 Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope[Trollope 6][btowexxx.xxx]2432
Dec 2000 Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain [Twain #16][shkddxxx.xxx]2431
Dec 2000 Romantic Ballads, by George Borrow [Borrow#7][rmbddxxx.xxx]2430
Dec 2000 Lost Face, by Jack London [London 90-96][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Contains:
Dec 2000 The Wit of Porportuk, by Jack London [London #96][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Dec 2000 The Passing of Marcus O'Brien, by Jack London[#95][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Dec 2000 Flush of Gold, by Jack London [London #94][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Dec 2000 That Spot, by Jack London [London #93][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Dec 2000 To Build a Fire, by Jack London [London #92][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Dec 2000 Trust, by Jack London [London #91][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Dec 2000 Lost Face, by Jack London [London #90][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Dec 2000 Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope[Alexander Pope #1][esymnxxx.xxx]2428
Dec 2000 The Patagonia, by Henry James [Henry James#24][patgnxxx.xxx]2427
Dec 2000 The Diary of a Man of Fifty by H. James [James#21][dmnftxxx.xxx]2426
Dec 2000 A Bundle of Letters, by Henry James [James#20][bndltxxx.xxx]2425
Dec 2000 Black Bartlemy's Treasure, by Jeffrey Farnol [bbtrexxx.xxx]2424
Dec 2000 Anecdotes of Johnson, by Hesther Lynch Piozzi [andsjxxx.xxx]2423
Dec 2000 Introduction to The Compleat Angler Andrew Lang 23[alcmaxxx.xxx]2422
Dec 2000 The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay [Gay1][bgoprxxx.xxx]2421
Dec 2000 Unterhaltungen deutscher AusgewandertenGoethe [30][7untrxxx.xxx]2420
Dec 2000 Unterhaltungen deutscher AusgewandertenGoethe [30][8untrxxx.xxx]2420
Dec 2000 La Dame aux Camelias, by Alexandre Dumas [8damexxx.xxx]2419
Dec 2000 Oldport Days, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson [#2][oldptxxx.xxx]2418
Dec 2000 Okewood of the Secret Service, Valentine Williams [valenxxx.xxx]2417
Dec 2000 The House of Pride &c., by Jack London [London#89][hsprdxxx.xxx]2416
Dec 2000 The Mutiny of the Elsinore, by Jack London[JL #88][swolfxxx.xxx]2415
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Dec 2000 Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope [btowexxx.xxx]2432
Dec 2000 Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain [Twain#16][shkddxxx.xxx]2431
Dec 2000 Romantic Ballads, by George Borrow [Borrow#7][rmbddxxx.xxx]2430
Dec 2000 Lost Face, by Jack London [London#81][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Dec 2000 Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope [esymnxxx.xxx]2428
Dec 2000 The Patagonia, by Henry James [James#22][patgnxxx.xxx]2427
Dec 2000 The Diary of a Man of Fifty by H. James[James#21][dmnftxxx.xxx]2426
Dec 2000 A Bundle of Letters, by Henry James [James#20][bndltxxx.xxx]2425
Dec 2000 Black Bartlemy's Treasure, by Jeffrey Farnol [bbtrexxx.xxx]2424
Dec 2000 Anecdotes of Johnson, by Hesther Lynch Piozzi [andsjxxx.xxx]2423
Dec 2000 Introduction to The Compleat Angler, Albert Lang [alcmaxxx.xxx]2422
Dec 2000 The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay [Gay1][bgoprxxx.xxx]2421
Dec 2000 Unterhaltungen deutscher AusgewandertenGoethe[30][7untrxxx.xxx]2420
Dec 2000 Unterhaltungen deutscher AusgewandertenGoethe[30][8untrxxx.xxx]2420
Dec 2000 La Dame aux Camelias, by Alexandre Dumas [8damexxx.xxx]2419
Dec 2000 Oldport Days, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson [#2][oldptxxx.xxx]2418
Dec 2000 Okewood of the Secret Service, Valentine Williams[valenxxx.xxx]2417
Dec 2000 The House of Pride &c., by Jack London[London#80][hsprdxxx.xxx]2416
Dec 2000 The Son of the Wolf, by Jack London [London#79][swolfxxx.xxx]2415
Nov 2000 Cliges: A Romance, by Chretien de Troyes [cligexxx.xxx]2414
Nov 2000 Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert#4][mbovaxxx.xxx]2413
Nov 2000 The Categories, by Aristotle [aristxxx.xxx]2412
For German etexts, filenames starting with 8 are 8-bit versions,
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Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 3[Goethe30][7wmw3xxx.xxx]2411
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 3[Goethe30][8wmw3xxx.xxx]2411
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 2[Goethe29][7wmw2xxx.xxx]2410
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 2[Goethe29][8wmw2xxx.xxx]2410
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 1[Goethe28][7wmw1xxx.xxx]2409
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 1[Goethe28][8wmw1xxx.xxx]2409
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe 2[Goethe27][7ljw2xxx.xxx]2408
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe 2[Goethe27][8ljw2xxx.xxx]2408
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe 1[Goethe26][7ljw1xxx.xxx]2407
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe 1[Goethe26][8ljw1xxx.xxx]2407
Nov 2000 Die Geschwister, by Goethe [Goethe25][7geswxxx.xxx]2406
Nov 2000 Die Geschwister, by Goethe [Goethe25][8geswxxx.xxx]2406
Nov 2000 Italienische Reise, by Goethe vol. 2 [Goethe24][7itr1xxx.xxx]2405
Nov 2000 Italienische Reise, by Goethe vol. 2 [Goethe24][8itr1xxx.xxx]2405
Nov 2000 Italienische Reise, by Goethe vol. 1 [Goethe23][7itr1xxx.xxx]2404
Nov 2000 Italienische Reise, by Goethe vol. 1 [Goethe23][8itr1xxx.xxx]2404
Nov 2000 Die Wahlverwandtschaften, by Goethe [Goethe22][7wahlxxx.xxx]2403
Nov 2000 Die Wahlverwandtschaften, by Goethe [Goethe22][8wahlxxx.xxx]2403
Nov 2000 Briefe aus der Schweiz, by Goethe [Goethe21][7schwxxx.xxx]2402
Nov 2000 Briefe aus der Schweiz, by Goethe [Goethe21][8schwxxx.xxx]2402
Nov 2000 The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot [marboxxx.xxx]2401
Nov 2000 Vikram and the Vampire, by Sir Richard R. Burton [vikrvxxx.xxx]2400
Nov 2000 Up From Slavery: An Autobiography, B.T.Washington[booktxxx.xxx]2399
Nov 2000 The Path of the Law, by O.W. Holmes, Jr. [palawxxx.xxx]2398
Nov 2000 Story of My Life, by Helen Keller [kellexxx.xxx]2397
Nov 2000 History of the Catholic Church, by J. MacCaffrey [hcathxxx.xxx]2396
Nov 2000 The Golden Fleece, by Padraic Colum [fleecxxx.xxx]2395
(no, this is not the same as #1614, The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne)
Nov 2000 The Grand Canyon of Arizona, by George W. James [gcoazxxx.xxx]2394
Nov 2000 His Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune [hsdogxxx.xxx]2393
Nov 2000 Further Adventures of Lad, Albert Payson Terhune [faladxxx.xxx]2392
Nov 2000 Bruce, by Albert Payson Terhune [brucexxx.xxx]2391
Nov 2000 The Conquest of the Old Southwest, by Henderson [cnqswxxx.xxx]2390
Nov 2000 Bardelys the Magnificent, by Rafael Sabatini [bardexxx.xxx]2389
Nov 2000 The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold[bgitaxxx.xxx]2388
Nov 2000 The Voice, by Margaret Deland [voicexxx.xxx]2387
Nov 2000 Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, Thayer[teddyxxx.xxx]2386
Nov 2000 Gala-Days, by Gail Hamilton (Agibail Dodge) [galadxxx.xxx]2385
Nov 2000 The Deliverance, by Ellen Glasgow [delivxxx.xxx]2384
Nov 2000 Canterbury Tales and Other Poems, GeoffreyChaucer[cbtlsxxx.xxx]2383
Nov 2000 Proposed Territory of Arizona, Sylvester Mowry [tarizxxx.xxx]2382
Nov 2000 Actions and Reactions, by Rudyard Kiping [actrexxx.xxx]2381
Nov 2000 Das Maerchen von dem Myrtenfraeulein, C. Brentano[7myrtxxx.xxx]2380
Nov 2000 Das Maerchen von dem Myrtenfraeulein, C. Brentano[8myrtxxx.xxx]2380
Nov 2000 Chastelard, by Algernon Charles Swinburne [chastxxx.xxx]2379
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Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe20][7wml8xxx.xxx]2342
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe20][8wml8xxx.xxx]2342
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe19][7wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe19][8wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe18][7wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe18][8wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe17][7wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe17][8wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe16][7wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe16][8wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe15][7wml3xxx.xxx]2337
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe15][8wml3xxx.xxx]2337
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe14][7wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe14][8wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Newly updated etexts (newer versions, such as 7wml11.txt supersedes
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Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe13][7wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe13][8wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Hans Huckebein, by Wilhelm Busch [Three *Stories][7hckbxxx.xxx]2322
Sep 2000 Hans Huckebein, by Wilhelm Busch [Three *Stories][8hckbxxx.xxx]2322
These are for the publication month August 2000 (4 etexts):
Aug 2000 The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin [Darwin#7][dscmnxxx.xxx]2300
Aug 2000 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett [24hrsxxx.xxx]2274
Aug 2000 The Discovery of Guiana, by Walter Raleigh WR#3][guianxxx.xxx]2272
Aug 2000 He Fell In Love With His Wife, by Edward P. Roe [inlhwxxx.xxx]2271
I was told there were a few typos here that have been corrected,
so I am including these listings below again.
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Y Chromosome Number 24 [0yhgpxxx.xxx]2224
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, X Chromosome Number 23 [0xhgpxxx.xxx]2223
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 22 [22hgpxxx.xxx]2222
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 21 [21hgpxxx.xxx]2221
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 20 [20hgpxxx.xxx]2220
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 19 [19hgpxxx.xxx]2219
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 18 [18hgpxxx.xxx]2218
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 17 [17hgpxxx.xxx]2217
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 16 [16hgpxxx.xxx]2216
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 15 [15hgpxxx.xxx]2215
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 14 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2214
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 13 [13hgpxxx.xxx]2213
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 12 [12hgpxxx.xxx]2212
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 11 [11hgpxxx.xxx]2211
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 10 [10hgpxxx.xxx]2210
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 09 [09hgpxxx.xxx]2209
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 08 [08hgpxxx.xxx]2208
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 07 [07hgpxxx.xxx]2207
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 06 [06hgpxxx.xxx]2206
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 05 [05hgpxxx.xxx]2205
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 04 [04hgpxxx.xxx]2204
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 03 [03hgpxxx.xxx]2203
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 02 [02hgpxxx.xxx]2202
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 01 [01hgpxxx.xxx]2201
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, About the Human GenomeFiles[0ahgpxxx.xxx]2200
Jun 2000 The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler[iliadxxx.xxx]2199
Newly updated etexts (newer versions, such as 8spur11.txt supersedes
8spur10.txt):
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K.Rohner[8spurxxx.xxx]2174C
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K.Rohner[7spurxxx.xxx]2174C
May 2000 Thoughts on Present Discontents, etc., by Burke[thdscxxx.xxx]2173
May 2000 That Mainwaring Affair, by Maynard Barbour[mnwrnxxx.xxx]2172
May 2000 Brother Jacob, by George Eliot [George Eliot#5][brjcbxxx.xxx]2171
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V4 of4[4mwsmxxx.xxx]2170*
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V3 of4[3mwsmxxx.xxx]2169
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V2 of4[2mwsmxxx.xxx]2168
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V1 of4[1mwsmxxx.xxx]2167
May 2000 King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH#9][7kslmxxx.xxx]2166
May 2000 King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH#9][8kslmxxx.xxx]2166
May 2000 The Lifted Veil, by George Eliot [George Eliot#4][lftvlxxx.xxx]2165
May 2000 The Lumley Autograph Susan Fenimore Cooper[SFC#2][lumlyxxx.xxx]2164
May 2000 The Bridge-Builders, by Mark Twain[Mark Twain#16][brdgbxxx.xxx]2163
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Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V16[16frdxxx.xxx]2116
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V15[15frdxxx.xxx]2115
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NEW etexts for November 2000 (36 etexts):
Nov 2000 Chastelard, by Algernon Charles Swinburne [chastxxx.xxx]2379
Nov 2000 Das Maerchen von dem Myrtenfraeulein, C. Brentano [7myrtxxx.xxx]2380
Nov 2000 Das Maerchen von dem Myrtenfraeulein, C. Brentano [8myrtxxx.xxx]2380
Nov 2000 Actions and Reactions, by Rudyard Kiping [actrexxx.xxx]2381
Nov 2000 Proposed Territory of Arizona, Sylvester Mowry [tarizxxx.xxx]2382
Nov 2000 Canterbury Tales and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer[cbtlsxxx.xxx]2383
Nov 2000 The Deliverance, by Ellen Glasgow [delivxxx.xxx]2384
Nov 2000 Gala-Days, by Gail Hamilton (Agibail Dodge) [galadxxx.xxx]2385
Nov 2000 Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, Thayer [teddyxxx.xxx]2386
Nov 2000 The Voice, by Margaret Deland [voicexxx.xxx]2387
Nov 2000 The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold [bgitaxxx.xxx]2388
Nov 2000 Bardelys the Magnificent, by Rafael Sabatini [bardexxx.xxx]2389
Nov 2000 The Conquest of the Old Southwest, by Henderson [cnqswxxx.xxx]2390
Nov 2000 Bruce, by Albert Payson Terhune [brucexxx.xxx]2391
Nov 2000 Further Adventures of Lad, Albert Payson Terhune [faladxxx.xxx]2392
Nov 2000 His Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune [hsdogxxx.xxx]2393
Nov 2000 The Grand Canyon of Arizona, George W. James [gcoazxxx.xxx]2394
Nov 2000 The Golden Fleece, by Padraic Colum [fleecxxx.xxx]2395
(no, this is not the same as #1614, The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne)
Nov 2000 History of the Catholic Church, by J. MacCaffrey [hcathxxx.xxx]2396
Nov 2000 Story of My Life, by Helen Keller [kellexxx.xxx]2397
Nov 2000 The Path of the Law, by O.W. Holmes, Jr. [palawxxx.xxx]2398
Nov 2000 Up From Slavery: An Autobiography, B.T. Washington[booktxxx.xxx]2399
Nov 2000 Vikram and the Vampire, by Sir Richard R. Burton [vikrvxxx.xxx]2400
Nov 2000 The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot [marboxxx.xxx]2401
For German etexts, filenames starting with 8 are 8-bit versions,
which should be usable by nearly all modern computers. 7-bit versions
are plain ASCII (no accents or special characters).
A "1" or "2" for the same etext number indicates a multi-volume set,
as in 7wml1xxx.xxx and 7xml2xxx.xxx.
Nov 2000 Briefe aus der Schweiz, by Goethe [Goethe 21][7schwxxx.xxx]2402
Nov 2000 Briefe aus der Schweiz, by Goethe [Goethe 21][8schwxxx.xxx]2402
Nov 2000 Die Wahlverwandtschaften, by Goethe [Goethe 22][7wahlxxx.xxx]2403
Nov 2000 Die Wahlverwandtschaften, by Goethe [Goethe 22][8wahlxxx.xxx]2403
Nov 2000 Italienische Reise, by Goethe vol. 1 [Goethe 23][7itr1xxx.xxx]2404
Nov 2000 Italienische Reise, by Goethe vol. 1 [Goethe 23][8itr1xxx.xxx]2404
Nov 2000 Italienische Reise, by Goethe vol. 2 [Goethe 24][7itr1xxx.xxx]2405
Nov 2000 Italienische Reise, by Goethe vol. 2 [Goethe 24][8itr1xxx.xxx]2405
Nov 2000 Die Geschwister, by Goethe [Goethe 25][7geswxxx.xxx]2406
Nov 2000 Die Geschwister, by Goethe [Goethe 25][8geswxxx.xxx]2406
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe 1[Goethe 26][7ljw1xxx.xxx]2407
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe 1[Goethe 26][8ljw1xxx.xxx]2407
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe 2[Goethe 27][7ljw2xxx.xxx]2408
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Goethe 2[Goethe 27][8ljw2xxx.xxx]2408
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 1[Goethe 28][7wmw1xxx.xxx]2409
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 1[Goethe 28][8wmw1xxx.xxx]2409
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 2[Goethe 29][7wmw2xxx.xxx]2410
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 2[Goethe 29][8wmw2xxx.xxx]2410
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 3[Goethe 30][7wmw3xxx.xxx]2411
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe 3[Goethe 30][8wmw3xxx.xxx]2411
Nov 2000 The Categories, by Aristotle [aristxxx.xxx]2412
Nov 2000 Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert #4][mbovaxxx.xxx]2413
Nov 2000 Cliges: A Romance, by Chretien de Troyes [cligexxx.xxx]2414
NEW etexts for December 2000 (18 etexts):
Dec 2000 The Son of the Wolf by Jack London [London #79][swolfxxx.xxx]2415
Dec 2000 The House of Pride &c., by Jack London[London #80][hsprdxxx.xxx]2416
Dec 2000 Okewood of the Secret Service, Valentine Williams [valenxxx.xxx]2417
Dec 2000 Oldport Days, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson [#2][oldptxxx.xxx]2418
Dec 2000 La Dame aux Camelias, by Alexandre Dumas [8damexxx.xxx]2419
Dec 2000 Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten Goethe[30][7untrxxx.xxx]2420
Dec 2000 Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten Goethe[30][8untrxxx.xxx]2420
Dec 2000 The Beggar's Opera by John Gay [Gay 1][bgoprxxx.xxx]2421
Dec 2000 Introduction to The Compleat Angler, Albert Lang [alcmaxxx.xxx]2422
Dec 2000 Anecdotes of Johnson, by Hesther Lynch Piozzi [andsjxxx.xxx]2423
Dec 2000 Black Bartlemy's Treasure, by Jeffrey Farnol [bbtrexxx.xxx]2424
Dec 2000 A Bundle of Letters, by Henry James [James #20][bndltxxx.xxx]2425
Dec 2000 The Diary of a Man of Fifty by H. James[James #21][dmnftxxx.xxx]2426
Dec 2000 The Patagonia, by Henry James [James #22][patgnxxx.xxx]2427
Dec 2000 Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope [esymnxxx.xxx]2428
Dec 2000 Lost Face, by Jack London [London #81][lstfcxxx.xxx]2429
Dec 2000 Romantic Ballads, by George Borrow [Borrow #7][rmbddxxx.xxx]2430
Dec 2000 Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain [Twain #16][shkddxxx.xxx]2431
Dec 2000 Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope [btowexxx.xxx]2432
NEW etexts with numbers that were reserved for March 2000 (2 etexts):
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 15[15frdxxx.xxx]2115
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16[16frdxxx.xxx]2116
Newly updated etexts (newer versions, such as 8spur11.txt supersedes
8spur10.txt):
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K. Rohner[8spurxxx.xxx]2174C
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K. Rohner[7spurxxx.xxx]2174C
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][7wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][8wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Changes to etexts:
- This file has already been posted for September 1997 as etext #1044,
and so is withdrawn as 2232:
Jun 2000 Captain Stormfield, by Mark Twain [Mark Twain #17][cptstxxx.xxx]2232
- This file had also already been posted, for January 2000 as etext #2048,
and so is withdrawn as 2298.
Aug 2000 Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, by Irving #6[sbogcxxx.xxx]2298
- This file was never really posted. Etext 2199 remains Homer's Iliad
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, History and Commentary [00hgpxxx.xxx]2199
PREVIOUSLY POSTED etexts that may not have been announced before
All 36 files for July, 2000 will be Shakespeare's First Folio, we have posted
the entire First Folio in one file already, and are making 35 more files. . .
Etext numbers 2235-2270
These are for the publication month May 2000 (34 etexts):
May 2000 The Bridge-Builders, by Mark Twain[Mark Twain #16][brdgbxxx.xxx]2163
May 2000 The Lumley Autograph Susan Fenimore Cooper[SFC#2][lumlyxxx.xxx]2164
May 2000 The Lifted Veil, by George Eliot [George Eliot #4][lftvlxxx.xxx]2165
May 2000 King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #9][7kslmxxx.xxx]2166
May 2000 King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #9][8kslmxxx.xxx]2166
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V1 of 4[1mwsmxxx.xxx]2167
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V2 of 4[2mwsmxxx.xxx]2168
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V3 of 4[3mwsmxxx.xxx]2169
May 2000 Misc Writings and Speeches, Lord Macaulay V4 of 4[4mwsmxxx.xxx]2170*
May 2000 Brother Jacob, by George Eliot [George Eliot #5][brjcbxxx.xxx]2171
May 2000 That Mainwaring Affair, by Maynard Barbour [mnwrnxxx.xxx]2172
May 2000 Thoughts on Present Discontents, etc., by Burke [thdscxxx.xxx]2173
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K. Rohner[8spurxxx.xxx]2174C
May 2000 Frau und Kindern auf der Spur, by Gerold K. Rohner[7spurxxx.xxx]2174C
May 2000 You Never Can Tell, by [George] Bernard Shaw [#7] [nvrctxxx.xxx]2175
May 2000 Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds [artdsxxx.xxx]2176
May 2000 Thankful Blossom, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #2][tkfblxxx.xxx]2177
May 2000 By Shore and Sedge, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #3][bysnsxxx.xxx]2178
May 2000 Drift from Two Shores, by Bret Harte [Harte #4[[dftshxxx.xxx]2179
May 2000 In A Hollow Of The Hills, by Bret Harte [Harte #5][hllhlxxx.xxx]2180
May 2000 The Marble Faun V. 1, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[NH#8][1faunxxx.xxx]2181
May 2000 The Marble Faun V. 2, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[NH#9][2faunxxx.xxx]2182*
May 2000 Three Men on the Bummel, by Jerome K. Jerome [#18][tmotbxxx.xxx]2183
May 2000 Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird [utrkjxxx.xxx]2184
May 2000 Maruja, by Bret Harte [Bret Harte #5][hllhlxxx.xxx]2185
May 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2186
May 2000 Oberon, by Christoph Martin Wieland [In German] [7oberxxx.xxx]2187*
May 2000 Oberon, by Christoph Martin Wieland [In German] [8oberxxx.xxx]2187*
May 2000 Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurid Brigge, by Rilke [7maltxxx.xxx]2188*
May 2000 Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurid Brigge, by Rilke [8maltxxx.xxx]2188*
May 2000 Der Gwissenswurm, by Ludwig Anzengruber [German] [7gwssxxx.xxx]2189*
May 2000 Der Gwissenswurm, by Ludwig Anzengruber [German] [8gwssxxx.xxx]2189*
May 2000 Isabella von Aegypten, by Ludwig Achim von Arnim [7isblxxx.xxx]2190*
May 2000 Isabella von Aegypten, by Ludwig Achim von Arnim [8isblxxx.xxx]2190*
May 2000 Boy Scouts in Mexico, by G. Harvey Ralphson [bsimxxxx.xxx]2191
May 2000 The Dark Flower, by John Galsworthy [dkflrxxx.xxx]2192
May 2000 A Ward of the Golden Gate, by Bret Harte[Harte #6][wotggxxx.xxx]2193
May 2000 Mauprat, by George Sand [Aurore Dupin/Dedevant] #1[muprtxxx.xxx]2194
May 2000 The Master of Mrs. Chilvers by Jerome K. Jerome 19[mschlxxx.xxx]2195
May 2000 An Iceland Fisherman, by Pierre Loti [icfshxxx.xxx]2196
May 2000 The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky[Dostoyevsky #2][gamblxxx.xxx]2197
May 2000 Stories from Pentamerone, by Giambattista Basile [pntmnxxx.xxx]2198
These are for the publication month June 2000 (38 etexts). The
Human Genome Project etexts will be updated as the mapping is completed
for each genome.
Jun 2000 The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler [iliadxxx.xxx]2199
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, About the Human Genome Files[0ahgpxxx.xxx]2200
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 01 [01hgpxxx.xxx]2201
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 02 [02hgpxxx.xxx]2202
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 03 [03hgpxxx.xxx]2203
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 04 [04hgpxxx.xxx]2204
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 05 [05hgpxxx.xxx]2205
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 06 [06hgpxxx.xxx]2206
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 07 [07hgpxxx.xxx]2207
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 08 [08hgpxxx.xxx]2208
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 09 [19hgpxxx.xxx]2209
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 10 [10hgpxxx.xxx]2210
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 11 [11hgpxxx.xxx]2211
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 12 [12hgpxxx.xxx]2212
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 12 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2212
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 13 [13hgpxxx.xxx]2213
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 14 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2214
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 15 [15hgpxxx.xxx]2215
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 16 [16hgpxxx.xxx]2216
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 17 [17hgpxxx.xxx]2217
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 18 [18hgpxxx.xxx]2218
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 19 [19hgpxxx.xxx]2219
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 20 [20hgpxxx.xxx]2220
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 21 [21hgpxxx.xxx]2221
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 22 [22hgpxxx.xxx]2222
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, X Chromosome [0xhgpxxx.xxx]2223
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, X Chromosome [#23] [0xhgpxxx.xxx]2223
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Y Chromosome [0yhgpxxx.xxx]2224
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Y Chromosome [#24] [0yhgpxxx.xxx]2224
Jun 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2225
Jun 2000 Kim, by Rudyard Kipling [Rudyard Kipling #10] [kimrkxxx.xxx]2226
Jun 2000 Soldiers Three [Part II] by Rudyard Kipling[RK#11][sldr3xxx.xxx]2227
Jun 2000 Reineke Fuchs, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [#6][7fchsxxx.xxx]2228*
Jun 2000 Reineke Fuchs, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [#6][8fchsxxx.xxx]2228*
Jun 2000 Faust: Der Tragoedie [Part 1] by Goethe[Goethe #7][7fau1xxx.xxx]2229*
Jun 2000 Faust: Der Tragoedie [Part 1] by Goethe[Goethe #7][8fau1xxx.xxx]2229*
Jun 2000 Faust: Der Tragoedie [Part 2] by Goethe[Goethe #8][7fau2xxx.xxx]2230*
Jun 2000 Faust: Der Tragoedie [Part 2] by Goethe[Goethe #8][8fau2xxx.xxx]2230*
Jun 2000 All Roads Lead to Calvary, by Jerome K. Jerome #20[rdclvxxx.xxx]2231
Jun 2000 A Damsel in Distress, by P.G. Wodehouse [PGW #3] [dmsndxxx.xxx]2233
Jun 2000 Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green, by Jerome 20[sklbgxxx.xxx]2234
These are for the publication month August 2000 (4 etexts):
Aug 2000 He Fell In Love With His Wife, by Edward P. Roe [inlhwxxx.xxx]2271
Aug 2000 The Discovery of Guiana, by Walter Raleigh WR#3] [guianxxx.xxx]2272
Aug 2000 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett [24hrsxxx.xxx]2274
Aug 2000 The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin [Darwin #7][dscmnxxx.xxx]2300
These are for the publication month September 2000 (9 etexts):
Sep 2000 Hans Huckebein, by Wilhelm Busch [Three * Stories][7hckbxxx.xxx]2322
Sep 2000 Hans Huckebein, by Wilhelm Busch [Three * Stories][8hckbxxx.xxx]2322
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][7wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][8wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][7wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][7wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][8wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][8wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe 15][7wml3xxx.xxx]2337
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe 15][8wml3xxx.xxx]2337
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe 16][7wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe 16][8wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe 17][7wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe 17][8wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe 18][7wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe 18][8wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe 19][7wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe 19][8wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][7wml8xxx.xxx]2342
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][8wml8xxx.xxx]2342
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This ends the Project Gutenberg January 2000 newletter.
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// and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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