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Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 22:59:16 -0500 (CDT)
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**** And here are the books to finish out the year 1999, and start 2000 *****
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Dec 1999 The Library, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #20][lbrryxxx.xxx]2018
Dec 1999 The Dhammapada, Translated by F. Max Muller [dhmpdxxx.xxx]2017
Dec 1999 The 1998 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook #8][No#7][world98x.xxx]2016
Dec 1999 A Miscellany of Men, by G. K. Chesterton [GKC #13][miscyxxx.xxx]2015
Dec 1999 The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes [tldgrxxx.xxx]2014
Dec 1999 The Pit Prop Syndicate, by Freeman Wills Croft [ptprpxxx.xxx]2013
Dec 1999 The Children, by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #8][chldnxxx.xxx]2012
Dec 1999 Rudder Grange, by Frank R. Stockton [Stockton #4][rgrngxxx.xxx]2011
Dec 1999 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [Darwin #6][adrwnxxx.xxx]2010
Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009
Dec 1999 Mazelli, and Other Poems, by George W. Sands[GS#1][mzllixxx.xxx]2008
Dec 1999 We Two, by Edna Lyall [wetwoxxx.xxx]2007
Dec 1999 A Fair Penitent, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #23][frpntxxx.xxx]2006
Dec 1999 Piccadilly Jim, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse [#1][pccjmxxx.xxx]2005
Dec 1999 "Pigs is Pigs," by Ellis Parker Butler [pgpgsxxx.xxx]2004
Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], by C. S. Lewis [spbndxxx.xxx]2003
Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], Clive Hamilton [spbndxxx.xxx]2003
Dec 1999 Sonnets from the Portuguese, by E. B. Browning[#1][snprgxxx.xxx]2002
Dec 1999 [Reserved for 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke] [ xxx.xxx]2001
Dec 1999 Don Quijote, by Cervantes in Spanish .txt & .htm [2donqxxx.xxx]2000
Dec 1999 Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley #1] [crmylxxx.xxx]1999
Dec 1999 Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche #1 [spzarxxx.xxx]1998
Dec 1999 Paradise, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [3ddcnxxx.xxx]1997
Dec 1999 Purgatory, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [2ddcnxxx.xxx]1996
Dec 1999 Hell/Inferno, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [1ddcnxxx.xxx]1995
Dec 1999 Adventures among Books, by Andrew Lang [Lang #19][advbkxxx.xxx]1994
Dec 1999 Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #15] [tldspxxx.xxx]1993
Dec 1999 Fragmenta Regalia, by Robert Naunton [Published] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992
Dec 1999 Travels in England, by Paul Hentzner [as 1 Book] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992
Dec 1999 Old Friends, Epistolary Parody, by Andrew Lang[18][oldfnxxx.xxx]1991
Dec 1999 The Bedford-Row Conspiracy, by Thackeray [WMT #11][bdfrcxxx.xxx]1990
Dec 1999 The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz [fldctxxx.xxx]1989
Dec 1999 History of Tom Thumb, etc. Edited by Henry Altemus[thumbxxx.xxx]1988
Includes: The Stories of the Cat and the Mouse [and] Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!
Dec 1999 The Outlet, by Andy Adams [outltxxx.xxx]1987
Dec 1999 Life and Death of Mr. Badman, by John Bunyan[JB#3][badmnxxx.xxx]1986
Dec 1999 Men's Wives, by William Makepeace Thackeray[WMT10][mnwvsxxx.xxx]1985
Dec 1999 [Reserved: George Orwell's 1984/Did it come true?][o1984xxx.xxx]1984
Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx]1983
and
Jan 2000 Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #24][nstrmxxx.xxx]2021
Jan 2000 Tarzan the Terrible, by Edgar R. Burroughs[TARZ#8][tzntrxxx.xxx]2020
Jan 2000 The Bat, by M. R. Rinehart & Avery Hopwood [MRR13][thbatxxx.xxx]2019
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:29:51 -0500 (CDT)
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And now here are the listings of our most recent Etexts, and July:
Dec 1999 Don Quijote, by Cervantes in Spanish .txt & .htm [2donqxxx.xxx]2000
Dec 1999 Chrome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley #1][crmylxxx.xxx]1999
Dec 1999 Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche #1 [spzarxxx.xxx]1998
Dec 1999 Paradise, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [3ddcnxxx.xxx]1997
Dec 1999 Purgatory, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [2ddcnxxx.xxx]1996
Dec 1999 Hell/Inferno, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [1ddcnxxx.xxx]1995
Dec 1999 Adventures among Books, by Andrew Lang [Lang #19][advbkxxx.xxx]1994
Dec 1999 Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #15] [tldspxxx.xxx]1993
Dec 1999 Fragmenta Regalia, by Robert Nauton [Published] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992
Dec 1999 Travels in England, by Paul Hentzner [as 1 Book] [trvfgxxx.xxx]1992
Dec 1999 Old Friends, Epistolary Parody, by Andrew Lang[18][oldfnxxx.xxx]1991
Dec 1999 The Bedford-Row Conspiracy, by Thackeray [WMT #11][bdfrcxxx.xxx]1990
Dec 1999 The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz [fldctxxx.xxx]1989
Dec 1999 History of Tom Thumb, etc. Edited by Henry Altemus[thumbxxx.xxx]1988
Includes: The Stories of the Cat and the Mouse [and] Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!
Dec 1999 The Outlet, by Andy Adams [outltxxx.xxx]1987
Dec 1999 Life and Death of Mr. Badman, by John Bunyan[JB#3][badmnxxx.xxx]1986
Dec 1999 Men's Wives, by William Makepeace Thackeray[WMT10][mnwvsxxx.xxx]1985
Dec 1999 [Reserved: George Orwell's 1984/Did it come true?][o1984xxx.xxx]1984*
Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx]1983
and
Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009
[Not Completed Interim Numbers 2004 to 2008, at this time]
Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], by C. S. Lewis [spbndxxx.xxx]2003
Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], Clive Hamilton [spbndxxx.xxx]2003
Dec 1999 Sonnets from the Portuguese, by E. B. Browning[#1][snprgxxx.xxx]2002
Dec 1999 [Reserved for 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke] [ xxx.xxx]2001
And please don't forget our last two Etexts from last month, take a look. . .
Nov 1999 Rashomon, by Akutagawa Ryunosuke [in Japanese] [rshmnxxx.xxx]1982
Nov 1999 The Right to Read, by Richard M. Stallman [of GNU][tychoxxx.xxx]1981C
This Etext is available as tycho10.txt or .zip and tycho10h.htm or .zip files
and in French HTML as tycho10f.htm and tycho10f.zip
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Many people have reported they never received the listings for July,
1999, so we are including them here:
The first 5 Etexts are from:
JOE MULLER: DETECTIVE by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner
Being the Account of Some Adventures in the Professional
Experience of a Member of the Imperial Austrian Police
by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner
Each title actually starts with the phrase "The Case of The"
but we didn't have room to put that in the index each time.
Jul 1999 A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson [nvycrxxx.xxx]1838
Jul 1999 The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain[Twain#14][prpprxxx.xxx]1837
Jul 1999 The Case of the Golden Bullet, by Colbrun & Groner[cotgbxxx.xxx]1836
Jul 1999 Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study/Colbrun/Groner[pbipsxxx.xxx]1835
Jul 1999 The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow, Colbrun&Groner[pdfisxxx.xxx]1834
Jul 1999 The Registered Letter by G.I. Colbron and A.Groner[rgstlxxx.xxx]1833
Jul 1999 The Lamp That Went Out, by Colbrun and Groner [tltwoxxx.xxx]1832
Jul 1999 The Lock and Key Library, Julian Hawthorne, Ed. [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
The Following 12 Etexts Are From:
The Lock and Key Library
Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English
Edited by Julian Hawthorne
Jul 1999 The Haunted House, by Charles Dickens [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 No. I Branch Line: The Signal Man, by Dickens [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Haunted and the Haunters, by E G Bulwer-Lytton[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The House and the Brain, by Edward G Bulwer-Lytton[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Incantation, by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Avenger, Thomas de Quincey [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Rober Maturin [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 A Mystery with a Moral, Laurence Sterne [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 On Being Found Out, by William Makepeace Thackeray[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Notch on the Ax by William Makepeace Thackeray[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 Bourgonef, by Anonymous [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Closed Cabinet, by Anonymous [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 Wyndham Towers, by Thomas B. Aldrich [Aldrich #5][wndhmxxx.xxx]1830
Jul 1999 Mae Madden, by Mary Murdoch Mason [mmmmmxxx.xxx]1829
Jul 1999 Chronicles of the Canongate, by Walter Scott [#9][cnngtxxx.xxx]1828
Jul 1999 Life of Charlotte Bronte, V1, by E. C. Gaskell[#3][1locbxxx.xxx]1827
Jul 1999 Sarrasine, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #71][srrsnxxx.xxx]1826
Jul 1999 Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thornton W. Burgess[#1][rdyfxxxx.xxx]1825
Jul 1999 Peace Manoeuvres, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#28][pcmnvxxx.xxx]1824
Jul 1999 The Make-Believe Man, by Richard Harding Davis #27[mbmanxxx.xxx]1823
Jul 1999 The Amateur, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #26][thmtrxxx.xxx]1822
Jul 1999 A Charmed Life, by Richard Harding Davis [RHD #25][chmlfxxx.xxx]1821
Jul 1999 A Wasted Day, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #24][wstdyxxx.xxx]1820
Jul 1999 The Messengers, by Richard Harding Davis[Davis#23][msgrsxxx.xxx]1819
Jul 1999 The Spy, by Richard Harding Davis[R. H. Davis #22][thspyxxx.xxx]1818
Jul 1999 A Question of Latitude, by Richard H.Davis[RHD#21][qlttdxxx.xxx]1817
Jul 1999 Tattine, by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide] [tttnexxx.xxx]1816
Jul 1999 The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay[bloalxxx.xxx]1815
Jul 1999 The Agony Column, by Earl Derr Biggers [gnyclxxx.xxx]1814
Jul 1999 A Man of Business, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #70][mnbusxxx.xxx]1813
Jul 1999 A Prince of Bohemia, by Honore de Balzac [HdB #69][prbhmxxx.xxx]1812
Jul 1999 Massimilla Doni, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#68][msmdnxxx.xxx]1811
Jul 1999 A Second Home, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #67][2ndhmxxx.xxx]1810
Jul 1999 Bucky O'Connor, by William MacLeod Raine[Raine #2][bkcnrxxx.xxx]1809
Jul 1999 The Log of the Jolly Polly, by R H Davis[Davis#20][jlplyxxx.xxx]1808
Jul 1999 The Lost House, by Richard Harding Davis[Davis#19][lsthsxxx.xxx]1807
Jul 1999 The Frame Up, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #18][frmupxxx.xxx]1806
Jul 1999 The Gentle Grafter, by O. Henry [O Henry #6][grftrxxx.xxx]1805
Jul 1999 War and the Future, by H. G. Wells[H.G. Wells #18][wrftrxxx.xxx]1804
Jul 1999 Wyoming, Story of Outdoor West, by William M Raine[wymngxxx.xxx]1803
Jul 1999 King Henry VIII, by Shakespeare [1ws4211x.xxx]1802
Jul 1999 The Tempest, by Shakespeare [1ws4111x.xxx]1801
and
Sep 1999 La Tulipe Noire, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere#6/French][tlpnrxxx.xxx]1910
This is an abridged edition in French; also see our full length English Etext
Jul 1997 The Black Tulip, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][Dumas#1][tbtlpxxx.xxx] 965
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:51:06 -0500 (CDT)
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This month we have Etexts in English, French and Japanese as well as a
few translations into English from the French, German and Greek. I am
hopeful we can continue even more in a wide variety of languages.
Several new Project Gutenberg sites listed below and more than a whole
month's worth of new Etexts. . .we finished all of November in March--
so we are 8 months ahead of schedule, instead of our usual 1 month. I
hope we can finish all the December Etexts in the next 28 days. . . .
Lots of things in this Newsletter, not the least of which is that this
month the Newsletter goes out on the last possible day since the first
Wednesday is April 7th, which will gave us a very long month to get up
to completing the November Etexts, but will leave us with less time to
do the December Etexts, a time that is already overloaded with these:
1. Every April and October we request new volunteers, before everyone
leaves for the summer, and when they are firmly back in the fall.
2. This year we are creating a support system for new our volunteers,
which will be thoroughly tested this month. This is a BIG project
and will take some effort to complete. If you would be willing to
help some of our new volunteers get started, please let me know.
[more below on this, probably the most important thing right now]
3. We are releasing our first Etext without ASCII characters, and the
hopes are we will be able to interest many of you in looking at an
Etext of Rashomon, in Japanese, as well as in translation. So far
the translation is not yet complete, but we are working on it. In
Japanese, it is the first file in the list below.
4. We are gearing up for our first official public relations effort--
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Requests:
For May 16, 1999 [Please forward this to Balzac interests. . . .]
In honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Honore de Balzac (1799 -
- 1850) Project Gutenberg is proud to present English translations of the
entire "Human Comedy." Portraying over two thousand characters and with
immense attention to detail, this massive collection of just under one
hundred novels and shorter works brings to life the social history of France
during the first half of the 19th century.
Team Balzac is seeking a qualifying biography of Honore de Balzac and any
non-Human Comedy works. Except for The Human Comedy and Droll Tales we have
been unable to locate any qualifying editions. If anyone is able to assist,
please email Dagny at dagnyj@hotmail.com
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Request for assistance/information: Gothic German typeface
I use a scanner to enter raw manuscript material and a software
package for interpreting into e-text. While the software (Visioneer
ProOCR 100) offers a decent German dictionary for spell checking, it
does not recognize the old German scripts called Fraktur. This
moderately ornate and stylized font has gone out of style since 1945,
but many of the older German originals are available ONLY in this
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If you can get a pre-1923 copy of Swiss Family Robinson,
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*
I have my own personal request. . .someone good with FTP
to help me post books when I am away from my desk. mh
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Don Quixote
If anyone is a student at Boston University, their library
system has a 1910-1913 and a 1922-1923 edition which
apparently are circulating, so that would be even better.
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We need a copy of this because we made an Etext,
then lost contact with the person we sent it to.
Actually we don't really need to HAVE the copy,
if you are willing to do some proofreading.
The Jewel of Seven Stars, by Bram Stoker
Please contact [and cc: hart@pobox.com]:
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Notes:
You probably already know about this, but I have found Ebay to be a good
source of books older than 1921. I did a search in the book category for
1921 (in titles and descriptions) and found quite a number of books with
a copyright of 1921 (some even with a scan of the copyright page) So you
might suggest to volunteers looking for a cheap book to contribute to
look at http://www.ebay.com
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About our Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Some people thought the filenames would be
pgws05*.txt and .zip
however. . .in this case the volunteer added an extra 0, I know not why,
and the location of the number part changed, so the files you want are:
pgw050xz.txt
pgw050tw.txt
pgw050s.txt
pgw050r.txt
pgw050pq.txt
pgw050mo.txt
pgw050il.txt
pgw050fh.txt
pgw050de.txt
pgw050c.txt
pgw050ab.txt
and
readme.web
Sorry for the confusion, will add to next newsletter. . . .
Newer versions just add one. . .next will be 060. . . .
But most start with versions 10, 11, 12, etc.
Only those we know will be "in progress" for
some time before they are up to our standard,
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get numbers lower than 10, as an indicator of
"not yet ready for prime time."
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Superiores de Occidente at Guadalajara)
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Nov 1999 Rashomon, by Akutagawa Ryunosuke [in Japanese] [rshmnxxx.xxx]1982
Nov 1999 The Right to Read, by Richard M. Stallman [of GNU][tychoxxx.xxx]1981C
This Etext is available as tycho10.txt or .zip and tycho10h.htm or .zip files
and in French HTML as tycho10f.htm and tycho10f.zip
Nov 1999 Stories by English Authors in Africa, Scribners Ed[sbeaaxxx.xxx]1980
Contains:
The Mystery of Sasassa Valley by A. Conan Doyle
Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard
King Memba's Point, by J. Landers
Ghamba, by W. C. Scully
Mary Musgrave, Anonymous
Gregorio, by Percy Hemingway
Nov 1999 The Perdue Chicken Cookbook, by Mitzi Perdue [mitzixxx.xxx]1979C
Nov 1999 Buttercup Gold, et. al., by Ellen Robena Field [btrcpxxx.xxx]1978
Nov 1999 Phaedra, by Jean Baptiste Racine, RB Boswell, Tr. [phrdrxxx.xxx]1977
Nov 1999 Peter Ruff and the Double Four, by Oppenheim[EPO8][rff44xxx.xxx]1976
Nov 1999 The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins [Collins#22][lcainxxx.xxx]1975
Nov 1999 Poetics, by Aristotle, Tr. SH Butcher[Aristotle#1][poetcxxx.xxx]1974
Nov 1999 Tales of Troy, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #17][tltryxxx.xxx]1973
Nov 1999 History Of The Britons, by Nennius [brtnsxxx.xxx]1972
Nov 1999 Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler [S. Butler #2][ervstxxx.xxx]1971
Nov 1999 A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #12][pwsmnxxx.xxx]1970
Nov 1999 Catherine: A Story, by William Thackeray[W.M.T.#9][cthrnxxx.xxx]1969
Nov 1999 The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix[#91][hciaaxxx.xxx]1968
Nov 1999 The Brotherhood of Consolation, by Balzac[HdB #90][brcnsxxx.xxx]1967
Nov 1999 The Path of the King, by John Buchan [Buchan #6][tpotkxxx.xxx]1966
Nov 1999 Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini [R. Sabatini #3][cpbldxxx.xxx]1965
Nov 1999 [Reserved for Pietro di Miceli, PG Webmaster] [ xxx.xxx]1964
Nov 1999 The Confession, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [MRR #11][cnfsnxxx.xxx]1963
Nov 1999 A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney [dfncpxxx.xxx]1962
Nov 1999 Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang[Andrew Lang #16][bkbkmxxx.xxx]1961
Nov 1999 Sight Unseen, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[Rinehart10][stnsnxxx.xxx]1960
Nov 1999 The Crown of Thorns, by E. H. Chapin [thrnsxxx.xxx]1959
Nov 1999 Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[handdxxx.xxx]1958
Nov 1999 Beatrix, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #89][btrixxxx.xxx]1957
Nov 1999 And Even Now, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #7][evnowxxx.xxx]1956
Nov 1999 The Darrow Enigma, by Melvin L. Severy [dngmaxxx.xxx]1955
Nov 1999 Colonel Chabert, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#88][chbrtxxx.xxx]1954
Nov 1999 The Diary of an Old Soul, by George MacDonald [#6][doaosxxx.xxx]1953
Nov 1999 The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2[ylwlpxxx.xxx]1952
Nov 1999 The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[Lytton#5][cmgrcxxx.xxx]1951
Nov 1999 A Woman of Thirty, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #87][thrtyxxx.xxx]1950
Nov 1999 On The Ruin of Britain, by Gildas Sapiens [otrobxxx.xxx]1949
Nov 1999 The Story of a Bad Boy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 7[soabbxxx.xxx]1948
Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx]1947
Oct 1999 On War, by Carl von Clausewitz [Volume 1] [CvC #1][1onwrxxx.xxx]1946
Oct 1999 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe [Goethe #2][egmntxxx.xxx]1945
Oct 1999 The Witch, et. al, by Anton Chekhov[Chekhov#14-28][witchxxx.xxx]1944
The stories contained in addition are:
28 THE WITCH
27 PEASANT WIVES
26 THE POST
25 THE NEW VILLA
24 DREAMS
23 THE PIPE
22 AGAFYA
21 AT CHRISTMAS TIME
20 GUSEV
19 THE STUDENT
18 IN THE RAVINE
17 THE HUNTSMAN
16 HAPPINESS
15 A MALEFACTOR
14 PEASANTS
Oct 1999 Louis Lambert, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #86][lmbrtxxx.xxx]1943
Oct 1999 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, by Balzac[HdB85][rfbrtxxx.xxx]1942
Oct 1999 Letters of Two Brides, by Honore de Balzac[HdB#84][l2brdxxx.xxx]1941
Oct 1999 Christ in Flanders, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#83][flndrxxx.xxx]1940
Oct 1999 A Gentleman of France, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#2][gntfrxxx.xxx]1939
Oct 1999 Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy [Leo Tolstoi] [LT #6][resurxxx.xxx]1938
and two from December, leaving us 34 more to do in the next 28 days. . . .
Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos610.xxx]2009
Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx]1983
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Subject: resend March Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:00:06 -0600 (CST)
This is a resend of yesterday's Newsletter. . .due to rebooting, a few
things went wrong with the header and most copies did not go out. The
error is now corrected in our mainframe, and we are including one book
we did not include yesterday, a good one, to make it more worthwhile a
thing for you if you actually got yesterday's copy. Apologies. . . mh
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We need lots of help this month. . .please see below, if willing. . .!
Below that. . .we also have another month's worth of Etexts for you!!!
Contents:
0. Just found out today, we are going to NEED some moderate funds,
now, not just what I had hoped for the future! . . .more later.
1. We Need Serious Help With Other Languages, More Than I Can Say.
2. Project Gutenberg Etexts Now Available Via FTPMail. . . .
3. Requests for Rafael Sabatini
The Sea-Hawk, Captain Blood, or Banner of the Bull, pre-1923 books.
4 New This Month. . .besides the month's Etexts, more Shakespeare of
the apocryphal nature, a new edition Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
It looks like we are going to need some VERY serious people to help on
doing Etexts in other languages. . .I am not willing to give up on the
other languages. . .but I now realize just how important it is to have
someone who can help coordinate the efforts in other languages. . . .
A. Don Quixote in Spanish
We are apparently going to need ALL THE HELP WE CAN POSSIBLY GET if we
are going to present this as our 2,000th Etext--if you know anyone who
can help find pre-1923 editions, or who is willing to help proofread--
I don't want to put this off. . .it is too good a choice. . .HELP!!!
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Don Quixote in Spanish. . .we are not getting very far with this one--
we have only about two more months before we COULD post Etext #2000...
BUT...I am willing to put this off until 1/1/2000 if that's what it is
going to take to get something rolling. I think it is very important,
more than I can say, to do more Etexts in more languages. . . .
B. La Tulipe Noire in French
La Tulipe Noire, in French, by Alexandre Dumas. . .we have an Etext in
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entire series of Dumas in French and English, and others in French!
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Jun 1999 Sir John Oldcastle, Shakespeare [Apocryphal] [1ws5110x.xxx]1788
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We have done a massive update of our 1913 Webster's Unabridged,
and version 05 is NOT copyrighted. . . .
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [XZ][pgwxzxxx.xxx] 670
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [TW][pgwtwxxx.xxx] 669
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [S] [pgwsxxxx.xxx] 668
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [R] [pgwrxxxx.xxx] 667
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [PQ][pgwpqxxx.xxx] 666
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [MO][pgwmoxxx.xxx] 665
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [IL][pgwilxxx.xxx] 664
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [FH][pgwfhxxx.xxx] 663
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [DE][pgwdexxx.xxx] 662
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [C] [pgwcxxxx.xxx] 661
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [AB][pgwabxxx.xxx] 660
and here are 36 new listings since we reached #1900 last month.
One from November already:
Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx]1947
and
Oct 1999 The Second Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling [RK #6][2jngbxxx.xxx]1937
Oct 1999 Letters from England, by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft [ltengxxx.xxx]1936
Oct 1999 Adventures of Major Gahagan, by Thackaray[W.M.T.8][majghxxx.xxx]1935
Oct 1999 Songs of Innocence and Experience, by Wm. Blake[2][sinexxxx.xxx]1934
Oct 1999 The Great Hoggarty Diamond, by Thackeray [W.M.T.7][gthgdxxx.xxx]1933
Oct 1999 Early Kings of Norway, by Thomas Carlyle [T.C. #6][knrwyxxx.xxx]1932
Oct 1999 The Zeppelin's Passenger, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[zplnpxxx.xxx]1931
Oct 1999 Penguin Island, by Anatole France [pngwnxxx.xxx]1930
Oct 1999 School For Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan [scndlxxx.xxx]1929
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Susan Fenimore Cooper[Volume 2] [1wyllxxx.xxx]1928
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Susan Fenimore Cooper[Volume 1] [1wyllxxx.xxx]1927
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Amabel Penfeather [Volume 2] [2wyllxxx.xxx]1928
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Amabel Penfeather [Volume 1] [1wyllxxx.xxx]1927
Oct 1999 Grandfather's Chair, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[NH #8][gfchrxxx.xxx]1926
Oct 1999 Droll Stories [V. 1], by Honore de Balzac[HdB #82][1drllxxx.xxx]1925
Oct 1999 Many Voices, by E. Nesbit [Poems] [E. Nesbit #8][mnyvcxxx.xxx]1924
Oct 1999 The Poisoned Pen by, Arthur B. Reeve [tppenxxx.xxx]1923
Oct 1999 Deirdre of the Sorrows, by J. M. Synge [Synge #7][drdrexxx.xxx]1922
[This one is a play, and is in markup format, need a volunteer to unmark it.]
Oct 1999 The Chouans, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #81] [chounxxx.xxx]1921
Oct 1999 Billy Baxter's Letters, By William J. Kountz, Jr. [bbxtlxxx.xxx]1920
Oct 1999 Ballads, by Horatio Alger, Jr. [H. Alger Jr. #10][blldsxxx.xxx]1919
Oct 1999 Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard [H. R. Haggard #8][loddsxxx.xxx]1918
Oct 1999 The Queen of Hearts, by Wilkie Collins[Collins#21][qnhrtxxx.xxx]1917
Oct 1999 The Great Stone Face, et. al. Nathaniel Hawthorne [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Includes The Great Stone Face and other Tales from the White Mountains>>>
Oct 1999 Sketches From Memory, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#7] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 The Great Carbuncle, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#6] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 The Ambitious Guest, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#5] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 The Great Stone Face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#4] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, by Jerome [#14][scthkxxx.xxx]1915
Oct 1999 [Reserved for The Titanic [ xxx.xxx]1914*
Oct 1999 The Drums Of Jeopardy, by Harold MacGrath [jprdyxxx.xxx]1913
Oct 1999 The Muse of the Department, by de Balzac [HdB #80][msdptxxx.xxx]1912
Oct 1999 Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther[#6][clbtyxxx.xxx]1911
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Sep 1999 [Reserved for La Tulipe Noire] [ xxx.xxx]1910
Sep 1999 [Reserved for Darwin] [ xxx.xxx]1909
Sep 1999 Her Prairie Knight, by B. M. Bower[B.M. Bower #10][hrprkxxx.xxx]1908
Sep 1999 Rowdy of the Cross L, by B. M. Bower [BM Bower #9][rowdyxxx.xxx]1907
Sep 1999 Erewhon (Revised Edition), by Samuel Butler [erwhnxxx.xxx]1906
Sep 1999 The Governess [Female Academy], by Sarah Fielding [gvrnsxxx.xxx]1905
Sep 1999 Life & Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner[lpoamxxx.xxx]1904
Sep 1999 Everybody's Guide to Money Matters, by Wm. Cotton [egtmmxxx.xxx]1903
Sep 1999 The Old Peabody Pew by Kate Douglas Wiggin[KDW#13][oldpwxxx.xxx]1902
Sep 1999 Secret of the Woods, by William J. Long [sctwdxxx.xxx]1901
Sep 1999 Typee, by Herman Melville [Herman Melville #2][typeexxx.xxx]1900
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AND VIEWERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST WEB AD OVERLOAD
Meanwhile, Web surfers weary of enduring the "pulsating, candy-colored wave
of advertising that has spread across the Internet," increasingly are
turning to ad-blocking software to speed up their download times. "They are
a symbol of people saying, 'I'm not going to take it anymore,'" says Jakob
Nielsen, co-founder of the Nielsen-Norman Group. The ad blockers, which
automatically eliminate all advertising from Web pages, go by names like
WebWasher, InterMute and AtGuard. Many online advertisers dismiss the trend
toward ad-blocking, noting that when faster connections are available,
consumers will not be so annoyed about being forced to download cumbersome
advertisement files. "Consumers understand the basic proposition that all
the free things are enabled by advertising," says the chairman of the
Internet Advertising Bureau. "Advertising is transforming the business
model." (Los Angeles Times 2 Mar 99)
OPEN UNIVERSITY OFFERS FIRST ONLINE COURSE
Britain's Open University, one of the oldest distance education institutions
in existence, this week launched its first online course -- "You, Your
Computer and the Net." The course, which is designed for students with
little or no technical knowledge, has attracted 2,000 students, with one
senior O.U. lecturer calling the response "overwhelming." Participants will
use a dedicated Web site and will have e-mail access to individual tutors.
The O.U. says the new course is aimed at those "who feel apprehensive about
the apparently inexorable march of the new communications technologies."
(Financial Times 1 Mar 99)
PREPARE FOR Y2K THE WAY YOU'D PREPARE FOR A THREE-DAY BLOW
Senator Chris Dodd's advice for getting ready for Y2K is: "What you ought
to do is prepare for a good storm, a hurricane, a storm where you'd like two
or three days of water and canned goods and the like," but you shouldn't
withdraw your money from banks. A study conducted by Dodd and Senator
Robert Bennett has concluded that there will be no major problems with
regard to the airways, nuclear weapons, or the nation's power grids. (AP 1
Mar 99)
HALF OF U.S. CLASSROOMS ARE NOW WIRED
The Department of Education says that, largely thanks to government
subsidies, 51% of classrooms, school computer and science labs, and school
libraries had Internet connections in the Fall of 1998 (compared to 27% in
1997 and only 3% in 1994). Smaller and poorer schools are now just as
likely to have Internet connections as larger and wealthier schools.
(Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 1 Mar 99)
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We are redoing Pride and Prejudice. . .if anyone is interested in new
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We are also going to need some serious help if we are going to get to
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copyright has obviously gone out of. . . . We need to find editions,
from any country, that were published before 1923. . . .
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I have a bunch of books available for scanning. For
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Things have gone pretty slowly since the holidays, the last 45 days
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:38:43 -0600 (CST)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter of Wednesday, January 6, 1999
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
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As you may recall from past years, we usually do not send this out the
first Wednesday of the year, so it won't get lost in your mailbox when
you return from the holidays, but this year is just going to be so hot
with potential that I thought we should get a head start.
More about all of the 1999 project and deadlines shortly.
Right now we just need to get more xeroxes in from pre-1923 editions,
so we can get your copyright research done.
We have more interest than ever in getting all languages on line; this
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language teams we will be forming. . .this is going to take some work!
We will be notifying all those who volunteered to work on Spanish. . !
Here are some examples of other interests:
From: Leonidas Hatzinikolaou <leonidas@hatzinikolaou.org>
I write to you, Michael, with the following proposal: I'm volunteering
to undertake the task of coordinating a collective effort in my country
to digitally publish Greek books in the public domain, both in the Greek
language and translations of them (wherever they can be found) in
English, under the auspices of the GUTENBERG PROJECT. The formats and
all rules of submissions of the e-texts will be according to the rules
established by the GUTENBERG PROJECT. I will try to spread the message
all over Greece asking for more volunteers to help in our task. I will
check-out the texts, their copyright status, etc. Currently I have a web
site under development (http://www.hatzinikolaou.org), where I can host
the Greek e-texts (which require Greek fonts, etc.), which, of course, I
will forward as soon as I receive them to the GUTENBERG PROJECT.
and. . .
Can we work on a few pieces of art, or more music?
Is it possible to, for example, generate a nice
image of the Mona Lisa? Or a few more MIDI files
of the great classics? Maybe some of DaVinci's neat
graphics.
It's not text, but would be nice to spice things
up. What I don't know about are the copyright problems
for art and how to get a high-rez image....I could
visit France and take my own photos...
For suggested books (I'm not volunteering, but in
case you want ideas to pass on);
Principia mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand
Russell. (1910)
also Newton's Principia (don't know how old an English translation we can
find...
****
And. . .a piece of good news for you who buying new computers:
Current PC sales at the end of 1998:
$1,000 is the current average price--
$800 - $1200 accounts for 67% of all:
1 computer out of 6 costs over $1200:
1 computer out of 6 costs under $800.
***
And now here are the usual 36 Etexts we provide in each Newsletter. . . .
28 are officially for release in August, 1999, and 8 or 9 more in
June, 1999. . .you MAY want to replace the listing we sent to you
for June two months ago, as it will be easier than pasting in.
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 2, by Anthony Trollope [AT #4][2noamxxx.xxx]1866
Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 1, by Anthony Trollope [AT #3][1noamxxx.xxx]1865
Aug 1999 Hero Tales From American History, Lodge/Roosevelt [htfahxxx.xxx]1864
Aug 1999 From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray [WMT #6][crhcrxxx.xxx]1863
Aug 1999 Tartarin of Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet [trtrnxxx.xxx]1862
Aug 1999 An Old Town By The Sea by Thomas Bailey Aldrich #6[ldtwnxxx.xxx]1861
Aug 1999 Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley[Chas Kingsley #8][wsthoxxx.xxx]1860
Aug 1999 The Works of Max Beerbohm, by Max Beerbohm[Max #6][twombxxx.xxx]1859
Aug 1999 Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling[#5][ptfthxxx.xxx]1858
Aug 1999 Initials Only, by Anna Katharine Green [Green #3][ionlyxxx.xxx]1857
Aug 1999 Cousin Pons, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #74][cspnsxxx.xxx]1856
Aug 1999 Ban and Arriere Ban, by Andrew Lang[Andr. Lang#15][bnabnxxx.xxx]1855
Aug 1999 Catherine de Medici, by Honore de Balzac/Balzac#73[ctdmdxxx.xxx]1854
Aug 1999 The Ninth Vibration, et. al., by L. Adams Beck #8 [9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Interpreter, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #7][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Incomparable Lady, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #6][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Hatred of the Queen, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #5][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Fire of Beauty, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #4][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Building of the Taj Majal, by L. Adams Beck #3[9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 How Great is the Glory of Kwannon! by L Adams Beck[9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 The Round-Faced Beauty, by L. Adams Beck [LAB#1] [9thvbxxx.xxx]1853
Aug 1999 Lucile, by Owen Meredith [lucilxxx.xxx]1852
Aug 1999 The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green #2[wintaxxx.xxx]1851
Aug 1999 Old Christmas, by Washington Irving [Irving #5][oxmasxxx.xxx]1850
Aug 1999 The Yellow Crayon, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[EPO#5][ycrynxxx.xxx]1849
Aug 1999 Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #7][mzdtrxxx.xxx]1848
Aug 1999 Songs, Merry and Sad, by John Charles McNeill [sngmsxxx.xxx]1847
Aug 1999 The Vision Splendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx]1846
Aug 1999 The Vision Spendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx]1846
Aug 1999 Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #5][zdbsnxxx.xxx]1845
Aug 1999 The Scholemaster, by Roger Ascham [In Markup] [smstrxxx.xxx]1844
Aug 1999 The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham [In Markup] [smstrxxx.xxx]1844
Aug 1999 Vera, The Medium, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#29][veramxxx.xxx]1843
Aug 1999 Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #9][strgfxxx.xxx]1842
Aug 1999 Z. Marcas, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #72][zmrcsxxx.xxx]1841
Aug 1999 The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser [tfncrxxx.xxx]1840
Aug 1999 Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf [otbeqxxx.xxx]1839
May 1999 Laws, by Plato [#29 and last of this Plato series][plawsxxx.xxx]1750
[We would love to do more tranlations of Plato, if you are have any. Michael]
And here is a more complete and more organized listing for June, 1999
Etexts #1765 thru #1802 are mosly corrected Shakespeare.
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Jun 1999 The Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare [1ws4011x.xxx]1800
Jun 1999 Cymbeline, by Shakespeare [1ws3911x.xxx]1799
Jun 1999 Timon of Athens, by Shakespeare [1ws3711x.xxx]1798
Jun 1999 Coriolanus, by Shakespeare [1ws3611x.xxx]1797
Jun 1999 Antony and Cleopatra, by Shakespeare [1ws3511x.xxx]1796
Jun 1999 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [1ws34xxx.xxx]1795
Jun 1999 King Lear, by Shakespeare [1ws3311x.xxx]1794
Jun 1999 Othello, by William Shakespeare [1ws32xxx.xxx]1793
Jun 1999 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [1ws31xxx.xxx]1792
Jun 1999 All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare [1ws3011x.xxx]1791
Jun 1999 Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare [1ws2911x.xxx]1790
Jun 1999 RESERVED for More Shakepeare or Apocrypha [ x.xxx]1789
RESERVED: 1788 will be "Sir John Oldcastle" coming from Tony Adam
Jun 1999 Hamlet, by Shakespeare [1ws2611x.xxx]1787
Jun 1999 As You Like It, by Shakespeare [1ws2511x.xxx]1786
Jun 1999 Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare [1ws2411x.xxx]1785
Jun 1999 King Henry V, by Shakespeare [1ws2311x.xxx]1784
Jun 1999 Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare [1ws2211x.xxx]1783
Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 2, by Shakespeare [1ws2111x.xxx]1782
Jun 1999 The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare [1ws2011x.xxx]1781
Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 1, by Shakespeare [1ws1911x.xxx]1780
Jun 1999 The Merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare [1ws1811x.xxx]1779
Jun 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Skakespeare [1ws17xxx.xxx]1778
Jun 1999 Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare [1ws16xxx.xxx]1777
Jun 1999 King Richard II, by Shakespeare [1ws1511x.xxx]1776
Jun 1999 King John, by Shakespeare [1ws1411x.xxx]1775
Jun 1999 Love's Labour's Lost, by Shakespeare [1ws1211x.xxx]1774
Jun 1999 Two Gentlemen of Verona, by Shakespeare [1ws1111x.xxx]1773
Jun 1999 The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare [1ws1011x.xxx]1772
Jun 1999 Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare [1ws09xxx.xxx]1771
Jun 1999 King Edward III, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws50xxx.xxx]1770
Jun 1999 The Comedy of Errors, by Shakespeare [1ws0611x.xxx]1769
Jun 1999 King Richard III, by Shakespeare [1ws0411x.xxx]1768
Jun 1999 RESERVED for More Shakepeare or Apocrypha [ xxx.xxx]1767
Jun 1999 RESERVED for More Shakepeare or Apocrypha [ xxx.xxx]1766
Jun 1999 Henry VI Part 1, by William Shakespeare [1ws01xxx.xxx]1765
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Responding to a federal court's ruling that the Loudoun County (VA.)
library's use of software filters to screen out sexually explicit material
on the Internet was unconstitutional (Edupage 24 Nov 98), the Library Board
has removed filters from some of its computers and left them on others;
adults will decide whether they want to use a computer with a filter or one
without, and parents of minors will be asked to sign a statement specifying
whether or not they want their child to have unfiltered Internet access.
Library patron Becky Montcastle-Jones urged the library board to appeal the
court's ruling, saying: "We have not had pornographic or salacious material
in our library. Why, just because we have new technology to get to it very
quickly, should we have any different policy? In the video section, you
can't go in there and get a pornographic movie. Librarians throughout
history have had to make choices about what will be in the library. That's
not censorship -- that's choice." But board member Marc Leepson expressed
the view of 6 out of the 8 board members: "I'm completely comfortable with
the new policy. It's constitutional, and it still protects children."
(Washington Post 3 Dec 98)
NBC ACQUIRES PART OF "WOMEN'S CONTENT" SITE
Noting that women "happen to be the fastest-growing element on the
Internet," an executive of the NBC television network has announced it will
promote the iVillage Internet service, which he described as "the leading
women's content site." NBC, in turn, will receive an ownership stake in
that service, which now also provides information about parenting, families
and health for special sites on Snap -- an ad-supported Web site owned by
NBC and C/NET. (USA Today 30 Nov 98)
NADER GROUP CHALLENGES AOL-NETSCAPE MERGER
Washington, D.C.-based Consumer Project, a group run by long-time consumer
advocate Ralph Nader, says it will vigorously oppose the merger between
America Online and Netscape. "We feel this will harm competition in the ISP
market," says director James Love. "ISPs will have to go to Netscape or
Microsoft for browser software. They compete against both and if they have
to go to them to get software, it creates all kinds of problems." Love says
his group plans to ask the Justice Department or the Federal Trade
Commission to nix the merger. "We don't care if Netscape sells its company
to anybody else but AOL or Microsoft." (TechWeb 25 Nov 98)
DOD FALSIFIED Y2K DATA BUT HAS "GOOD FEELING" ABOUT FUTURE
A Department of Defense inspector-general report says that the Defense
Special Weapons Agency never conducted required tests on three of five
"mission critical" computer systems it had certified as Y2K-compliant. The
military officer assigned to correct the agency's Year 2000 problems says he
agrees with the report but that the systems in question will be "100% in
compliance" by April 1999: "I have a good feeling about Y2K in this
agency." (USA Today 27-29 Nov 98)
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Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter, 37 More Etexts
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:54:57 -0600 (CST)
**The Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Wednesday, December 16, 1998***
Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy
We would LOVE to have more work to do over the holiday break. . .if it
is possible, please send us your suggestions for books, copyright work
that needs to be done, etc. For anyone who asked me to do something I
didn't have time for, now is the time to ask again. Happy Holidays!!!
If you would care to send us any donations over the holidays see end.
We are now nearly 7 months ahead of schedule. . .about 1800 Etexts . .
Some Shakespeare's from June are not completed yet. . .
We have managed to complete another month's Etexts. . .here they are!!
Jul 1999 Title Author [filename.ext ####
The first 5 Etexts are from:
JOE MULLER: DETECTIVE by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner
Being the Account of Some Adventures in the Professional
Experience of a Member of the Imperial Austrian Police
by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner
Each title actually starts with the phrase "The Case of The"
but we didn't have room to put that in the index each time.
Jul 1999 The Case of the Golden Bullet, by Colbrun & Groner[cotgbxxx.xxx]1838
Jul 1999 Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study/Colbrun/Groner[pbipsxxx.xxx]1837
Jul 1999 The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow, Colbrun&Groner[pdfisxxx.xxx]1834
Jul 1999 The Registered Letter by G.I. Colbron and A.Groner[rgstlxxx.xxx]1833
Jul 1999 The Lamp That Went Out, by Colbrun and Groner [tltwoxxx.xxx]1832
Jul 1999 The Lock and Key Library, Julian Hawthorne, Ed. [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
The Following 12 Etexts Are From:
The Lock and Key Library
Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English
Edited by Julian Hawthorne
Jul 1999 The Haunted House, by Charles Dickens [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 No. I Branch Line: The Signal Man, by Dickens [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Haunted and the Haunters, by E G Bulwer-Lytton[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The House and the Brain, by Edward G Bulwer-Lytton[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Incantation, by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Avenger, Thomas de Quincey [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Rober Maturin [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 A Mystery with a Moral, Laurence Sterne [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 On Being Found Out, by William Makepeace Thackeray[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Notch on the Ax by William Makepeace Thackeray[lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 Bourgonef, by Anonymous [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 The Closed Cabinet, by Anonymous [lckylxxx.xxx[1831
Jul 1999 Wyndham Towers, by Thomas B. Aldrich [Aldrich #5][wndhmxxx.xxx]1830
Jul 1999 Mae Madden, by Mary Murdoch Mason [mmmmmxxx.xxx]1829
Jul 1999 Chronicles of the Canongate, by Walter Scott [#9][cnngtxxx.xxx]1828
Jul 1999 Life of Charlotte Bronte, V1, by E. C. Gaskell[#3][1locbxxx.xxx]1827
Jul 1999 Sarrasine, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #71][srrsnxxx.xxx]1826
Jul 1999 Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thornton W. Burgess[#1][rdyfxxxx.xxx]1825
Jul 1999 Peace Manoeuvres, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#28][pcmnvxxx.xxx]1824
Jul 1999 The Make-Believe Man, by Richard Harding Davis #27[mbmanxxx.xxx]1823
Jul 1999 The Amateur, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #26][thmtrxxx.xxx]1822
Jul 1999 A Charmed Life, by Richard Harding Davis [RHD #25][chmlfxxx.xxx]1821
Jul 1999 A Wasted Day, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #24][wstdyxxx.xxx]1820
Jul 1999 The Messengers, by Richard Harding Davis[Davis#23][msgrsxxx.xxx]1819
Jul 1999 The Spy, by Richard Harding Davis[R. H. Davis #22][thspyxxx.xxx]1818
Jul 1999 A Question of Latitude, by Richard H.Davis[RHD#21][qlttdxxx.xxx]1817
Jul 1999 Tattine, by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide] [tttnexxx.xxx]1816
Jul 1999 The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay[bloalxxx.xxx]1815
Jul 1999 The Agony Column, by Earl Derr Biggers [gnyclxxx.xxx]1814
Jul 1999 A Man of Business, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #70][mnbusxxx.xxx]1813
Jul 1999 A Prince of Bohemia, by Honore de Balzac [HdB #69][prbhmxxx.xxx]1812
Jul 1999 Massimilla Doni, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#68][msmdnxxx.xxx]1811
Jul 1999 A Second Home, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #67][2ndhmxxx.xxx]1810
Jul 1999 Bucky O'Connor, by William MacLeod Raine[Raine #2][bkcnrxxx.xxx]1809
Jul 1999 The Log of the Jolly Polly, by R H Davis[Davis#20][jlplyxxx.xxx]1808
Jul 1999 The Lost House, by Richard Harding Davis[Davis#19][lsthsxxx.xxx]1807
Jul 1999 The Frame Up, by Richard Harding Davis [Davis #18][frmupxxx.xxx]1806
Jul 1999 The Gentle Grafter, by O. Henry [O Henry #6][grftrxxx.xxx]1805
Jul 1999 War and the Future, by H. G. Wells[H.G. Wells #18][wrftrxxx.xxx]1804
Jul 1999 Wyoming, Story of Outdoor West, by William M Raine[wymngxxx.xxx]1803
Jul 1999 King Henry VIII, by Shakespeare [1ws4211x.xxx]1802
Jul 1999 The Tempest, by Shakespeare [1ws4111x.xxx]1801
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ORACLE, SUN TEAM UP TO RIVAL MICROSOFT
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would "take low-cost, easy-to-use Internet computing to a new level" while
at the same time competing head-on with Microsoft's Windows operating
system. Internet computing, a term coined by Oracle, focuses on using
browser software as the interface to all other applications. Oracle CEO
Larry Ellison also recently revealed plans to market a new version of the
company's popular database software that requires no operating system.
(Financial Times 14 Dec 98)
IBM'S PRESENT TO THE INTERNET
IBM is contributing to the momentum of the "open source software" movement
by freely distributing original ("source") code to a new e-mail program
called Secure Mailer which, like products such as "Sendmail," "Q Mail," and
"Microsoft Exchange," stores and forwards e-mail messages with a high degree
of security. Computer security expert Abner Germanow of a prominent market
research firm says, "This is IBM's Christmas present to the Internet. For
these are core pieces of software, and we're going beyond trying to make
money off of them, to the idea that by freely sharing them it will make the
world a better place." (New York Times 14 Dec 98)
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Subject: December 10th Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:59:36 -0600 (CST)
This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter for Thursday, December 19, 1998
[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
We have the 36 Etext for May, 1999 pretty much ready for you, and some
new Shakespeare files, though BEWARE!. . .the filenames or numbers may
change over the next month or so. . .I haven't quite yet figured out a
whole strategy for working with what the mice played with while I went
on vacation. . .a vacation I am certainly glad to be back from. It is
odd to say, but everything when pretty much the opposite as expected--
I had a great time in LA accepting the WIRED 25 "Oscar" on behalf of a
thousand Project Gutenberg volunteers, and did all I was asked to do &
and bit more at the party. . .[I was indeed the "life of the party."]
As I often try to do, we have managed some new Shakespeare to honor my
father, who died 9 years ago today, and for whom I try to do some work
on this day each year, as well as to light a candle for him. I have a
GREAT BIG THANK YOU to our Shakespeare Team for getting this ready for
today, you will see THOUSANDS of corrections in these new files!!! My
father was a great Shakespeare professor, who instilled in me and many
others a great feeling for the classics, in literature, music and art.
This one's for you, Dad!
***
A note from our US Director of Production, Dianne Bean:
Working on a reasonable-sized-print book, water damaged at the bottom:
Testing Omnipage 9 on it and there's a HUGE difference between this and
Textbridge--they improved the OCR so it's better by a mile than
Textbridge, no longer even close...I'm only picking up 1 or 2 errors on a
page; where the pages are a little warped at the bottom, TB was making an
awful garble, but OP sails right through! And it hasn't crashed yet.
***
I will be meeting with Lawrence Lessig of Harvard, who apparently is the
one the Supreme Court of the US chose to teach them about computers, and
about the Internet. We will be planning the lawsuit to challenge all of
the new copyright extensions we tried so hard to keep from becoming law.
He has asked for some serious volunteers who would also like to sue; the
cases are more secure when there are several plaintiffs, not just one.
Just email me if you are interested. I meet with him Monday. We should
also like to receive any points you would like included in the suit, and
we would like these whether or not you are willing to be a plaintiff.
***
And here are the books!
May 1999 Billy and the Big Stick, by R. H. Davis [#17][bbstkxxx.xxx]1764
May 1999 The Nature Faker, by Richard Harding Davis [#16][ntrfkxxx.xxx]1763
May 1999 The Consul, by Richard Harding Davis [RH Davis#15][tcnslxxx.xxx]1762
May 1999 My Buried Treasure, by Richard Harding Davis [#14][mbtrsxxx.xxx]1761
May 1999 The Man Who Could Not Lose, by R. H. Davis [#13][mwcnlxxx.xxx]1760
May 1999 The Black-Bearded Barbarian, by Marian Keith [bbbrb09x.xxx]1759
May 1999 Majorie Daw, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich [Aldrich #4][mjdawxxx.xxx]1758
May 1999 Cruise of the Dolphin by Thomas Bailey Aldrich[#3][dlphnxxx.xxx]1757
May 1999 Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov [Checkov #5][vanyaxxx.xxx]1756
May 1999 Ivanoff, by Anton Chekhov [Checkov #4][vanofxxx.xxx]1755
May 1999 The Sea-Gull, by Anton Chekhov [Checkov #3][cgullxxx.xxx]1754
May 1999 Swan Song [& Intro], by Anton Chekhov [Checkov #2][swnsgxxx.xxx]1753
May 1999 El Dorado, by Baroness Orczy [More Pimpernell][#2][ldrdoxxx.xxx]1752
May 1999 Twilight Land, by Howard Pyle [Howard Pyle #3][twlndxxx.xxx]1751
May 1999 [Reserved for Plato] ******** [ xxx.xxx]1750
May 1999 Cousin Betty, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #66] [cbttyxxx.xxx]1749
May 1999 Other People's Money, by Emile Gaboriau [E.G. #2][opmnyxxx.xxx]1748
May 1999 The Red Seal, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln [redslxxx.xxx]1747
May 1999 New Collected Rhymes, by Andrew Lang [Lang #14][nwclrxxx.xxx]1746
May 1999 Poetical Works, by John Milton [pmsjmxxx.xxx]1745
May 1999 Philebus, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #28][philbxxx.xxx]1744
May 1999 Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells[HGW#17][12sadxxx.xxx]1743
May 1999 Miss Civilization, by Richard Harding Davis [#12][miscvxxx.xxx]1742
May 1999 The White Moll, by Frank L. Packard [Packard #2][wtmolxxx.xxx]1741
May 1999 The Flying U's Last Stand, by B. M. Bower [BMB #8][fuslsxxx.xxx]1740
May 1999 The Black Death/The Dancing Mania, by J.F.C. Hecker[bdadm10.txt]1739
May 1999 Statesman, by Plato [Plato #27][sttsmxxx.xxx]1738
May 1999 Facino Cane, by Honore de Balzac [H. de Balzac#65][fcanexxx.xxx]1737
May 1999 Cromwell, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws49xxx.xxx]1736*
May 1999 Sophist, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #26][sophtxxx.xxx]1735
May 1999 Secret Places of the Heart, by H.G. Wells[HGW #16][spothxxx.xxx]1734
May 1999 The Red Cross Girl, by Richard Harding Davis [#11][rdcrgxxx.xxx]1733
May 1999 The Schoolmistress, et al, by Anton Chekhov [AC#1][tschmxxx.xxx]1732
May 1999 Sister Songs, by Francis Thompson [F. Thompson #3][ssngsxxx.xxx]1731
May 1999 Michael, Brother of Jerry, by Jack London [JL #71][mcjerxxx.xxx]1730
May 1999 The Deserted Woman, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#64][dswmnxxx.xxx]1729
and:
Most of these Shakespeare files are vastly improved versions from our
original Complete works of Shakespeare [Etext #100] but some are new.
We had so many requests to post Shakespeare as individual files, that
we decided a whole new version was worth the effort, and here it is!!
Note: We don't have new versions for all the works yet. . .but will.
Jul 1999 King Henry VIII, by Shakespeare [1ws4211x.xxx]1802
Jul 1999 The Tempest, by Shakespeare [1ws4111x.xxx]1801
Jun 1999 The Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare [1ws4011x.xxx]1800
Jun 1999 Cymbeline, by Shakespeare [1ws3911x.xxx]1799
Jun 1999 Timon of Athens, by Shakespeare [1ws3711x.xxx]1798
Jun 1999 Coriolanus, by Shakespeare [1ws3611x.xxx]1797
Jun 1999 Antony and Cleopatra, by Shakespeare [1ws3511x.xxx]1796
Jun 1999 King Lear, by Shakespeare [1ws3311x.xxx]1794
Jun 1999 All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare [1ws3011x.xxx]1791
Jun 1999 Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare [1ws2911x.xxx]1790
Jun 1999 Hamlet, by Shakespeare [1ws2611x.xxx]1787
Jun 1999 As You Like It, by Shakespeare [1ws2511x.xxx]1786
Jun 1999 Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare [1ws2411x.xxx]1785
Jun 1999 King Henry V, by Shakespeare [1ws2311x.xxx]1784
Jun 1999 Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare [1ws2211x.xxx]1783
Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 2, by Shakespeare [1ws2111x.xxx]1782
Jun 1999 The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare [1ws2011x.xxx]1781
Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 1, by Shakespeare [1ws1911x.xxx]1780
Jun 1999 The Merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare [1ws1811x.xxx]1779
Jun 1999 King Richard II, by Shakespeare [1ws1511x.xxx]1776
Jun 1999 King John, by Shakespeare [1ws1411x.xxx]1775
Jun 1999 Love's Labour's Lost, by Shakespeare [1ws1211x.xxx]1774
Jun 1999 Two Gentlemen of Verona, by Shakespeare [1ws1111x.xxx]1773
Jun 1999 The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare [1ws1011x.xxx]1772
Jun 1999 The Comedy of Errors, by Shakespeare [1ws0611x.xxx]1769
Jun 1999 King Richard III, by Shakespeare [1ws0411x.xxx]1768
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translate it into any other language. The university is working with U.N.
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From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 07:41:55 -0600 (CST)
****This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for December 10, 1998****
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
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If you ever take the time to read this Newsletter beginning to the end
. . .this is probably the best time. . .there is a LOT of information,
for both those who just want to get our books, and, also for those who
want to help create those books.
This Newsletter is actually being posted November's first Wednesday in
response to the new United States copyright laws passed just last week
and is thus doing double duty; as the December 10th Newsletter is more
traditionally a venue for releasing some Etexts of the best classics--
which I most often dedicate to my father, who passed away December 10,
9 years ago, just after getting Project Gutenberg's initial supporter,
with one of his brilliant ideas that kept amazing me all of my life!!!
So. . .here is the biggest Project Gutenberg Newsletter of all time...
containing more Etexts than ever before, and, getting us more ahead of
schedule than ever before...with more people to contact about becoming
a Project Gutenberg volunteer than ever before, and even more. . . .
This has been a VERY hectic week, as I came back out of vacation mode,
just a week ago today, having posted only about 5 Etexts in 12 days of
vacation since our previous Newsletter, and in that one week we posted
all 31 Etexts left to complete the next month, as well as the 49 files
of our new, and more complete, AND PUBLIC DOMAIN, Shakespeare edition!
[During the writing of this Newsletter we have posted three more Etext
files for May, 1999, appended at the end of the lists. We also should
be posting the newly revised copyrighted Shakespeare files any minute.
Sue and Greg may be sending you an independent Newsletter about those.
So. . .please forgive me if I have overdone or underdone anything here
. . .I am already 7 hours late in getting this posted as we speak.
Michael S. Hart
Project Gutenberg
Executive Director
Contents:
0. Late new items.
1. Requests from our volunteers.
2. While "the cat in the Cat in the Hat hat" is away, will mice play?
3. A first glance at the new copyright laws.
4. The 36 Project Gutenberg Etexts for April, 1999.
5. The 49 NEW Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Shakespeare,
this one is in the Public Domain, at least in the U.S.
6. The NEWLY REVISED editions of our 100th Etext, the copyrighted
version of Shakespeare's works. . .1,000s of errors corrected!
7. Who is this "cat in the Cat in the Hat hat," anyway? Or what?
***
0. Late news items.
I [Michael Hart] will be hard to reach for the coming month, as I
will be meeting with a number of people, doing conferences, house
hunting in Tacoma, and all that stuff, and, hopefully taking rest
and refuge from everything to prepare to continue the fight for a
reversal of the new copyright laws in court.
So, in addition to emailing me at hart@pobox.com, you should also
cc:
Sue Asscher <asschers@aia.net.au>,
or Greg Newby <gbnewby@ils.unc.edu> if you can't get to Sue
Sue and Greg will be posting the books while I am gone, and maybe
even sending out one of these Newsletters!
Please also be encouraged to contact:
Dianne Bean <beandp@primenet.com>, United States
David Price <ccx074@ccj.coventry.ac.uk> England
John Bickers <jbickers@ihug.co.nz> New Zealand
[But don't feel you can only contact the one who
is closest to you. . . .]
[We don't want Sue and Greg to be too inundated with everything.]
They are not nearly as used to this as are Dianne, David and John,
and I hope you will be as considerate of them all as possible.
Thanks!
Michael
***
For those who access our sites to get or send Etexts:
archive.org has been through a MAJOR crash as is not,
at least at this moment, fully recovered, so you may
want to try our other sites. Email Sue and Newby to
find out where to send files if you have trouble. I
note that sunsite.unc.edu is not accepting files for
the moment because the disk is full. . .more on this
in the Volunteers' Newsletter in a day or so. Newby
just this minute let me know that archive.org is up,
at least for "outgoing" to send us files, but now it
requires a "cd work" command after FTPing in. Newby
will try to get the /etext directories running ASAP,
so you can get the normal files from archive.org
[Right. . ."ootgoing" is now "outgoing" [cd work]!!!
1.
As usual, before we even get started, here are requests to
find certain books our volunteers would LOVE to work on:
The works of Francesca Franco [of "Dangerous Beauty" fame]
<cyri@juno.com> Tania
William Blake, The Four Zoas
We have someone who is willing to pay for part of the cost
of getting a copy of this. . .and will proofread. You can
contact me directly about this one. . . . If the price is
decent, just go ahead and get it if the copyright is 1922,
or earlier. . .but please don't ship it to me yet. . . .
Burton's Arabian Nights. . .for:
Ron Burkey <rburkey@heads-up.com>
Unabridged, dated before 1923 in
copyright or publication info.
and
Would anyone be interested in collecting up pieces of the Human
Genome to post on Project Gutenberg? It is often requested.
Here is a list of our Directors of Production, please feel free
to contact them during the next month as I will be hard to get.
???
***
2. While "the cat in the Cat in the Hat hat" is away, will mice play?
I will be hard to reach for the next month, hobnobbing with my fellow
wizards as I tend to do every year at this time. I hope to come back
with some major support for Project Gutenberg, as I am aging quickly,
and surprised myself quite a bit with our huge rush of production for
the past three months. It appears we have posted over 267 new files,
with some 216 of them as new editions, all in the past 92 days or so.
In fact, the 36 April Etexts, and all the new and revised Shakespeare
files were posted in the last two weeks. . .someday I hope we can get
that much work done EVERY two weeks!
3. A first glance at the new copyright laws.
I was only a week ago that the new copyright laws were signed, and it
is my honor to tell you that our volunteers and supporters have great
will power when it comes to a call to arms. The HUGE book production
over the past two weeks was actually nearly all posted in just 1 week
since this new law took effect. [I had already gone into what I call
"vacation mode" after sending out the mid-month Newsletter, and, only
4 or 5 new books had been posted between the Newsletter and the law--
when I announce an effort to avenge the passing of the law by posting
as many books as possible for the next Newsletter, which would now be
set for only one week away, instead of six weeks away.
No way I can say NEARLY enough about our volunteers and directors, as
they really and truly CAME THROUGH IN A TIME OF CRISIS to let a world
know that we were not going to knuckle under to the pressure!
A tip of the hat to all of them!!
Now, on the legal matters.
At first glance, the major effect on the Public Domain is destruction
. . .plain and simple. . .for the next 20 years. . .and more, if they
pass another such law, which, I am sure they will try their damnedest
to do. . .THERE WILL BE NO MORE PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOKS IN THE U.S. other
than the ones that had already entered the Public Domain on 1/1/1998.
Even if such a law is NOT passed again and again, the Public Domain a
person might have gotten used to living in this century will only "be
a distant memory before Orwell's Age of 1984" in that a Public Domain
that used to include approximately HALF or 50% of all materials of an
eternity of publishing up to 100 years ago, should now include nearly
0% of the all the materials that will have been published in history,
up to 100 years from now.
Let me put this succinctly:
100 years ago the U.S. Public Domain included about 50% of everything
100 years from now the U.S. Public Domain will include about 0%. .
Here's the simple math:
If copyrighted information doubles every 14 years, and the copyright
usually expires in 14 years, then information is flowing into public
domain access at the same rate it is flowing into copyright. . .so a
quick look tells us that during the time it took to create a world's
new supply of information, the old supply of information came out of
copyright and into the Public Domain. . . .
100 years ago [and up to 1909] the average copyright lasted about 15
years, with most books having 14 years of copyright monopoly and the
copyrights were not renewed, because the books weren't selling after
about 5 years, on the average, for the books that were good enough a
library would have purchased them. This is still true today. . .you
steal or lose a book over 5 years from a library and the odds are it
cannot be replaced because it has gone out of print.
Since information was doubling just about every 14 years back then--
the result was that half of all information was in the Public Domain
. . .which isn't such a terrible way to have it be. . .the powerful,
the rich, etc., can still have twice as much as those who mostly use
free information.
In my interview last week with the New York Times, the interviewer's
suggestion was that we consider current information to be doubling a
bit faster. . .every 7 years.
If the average copyright were still just over 14 years today, we see
that 75% or 3/4 of all information would still be copyrighted.
The faster information flows through our society, the more is hidden
from the Public Domain by copyrights of the same length.
Under the new copyright law, the average copyright will be nearly an
entire century in length, with no renewals required, and copyrighted
notices are no longer required. . .it will be nearly impossible from
the average person's point of view, to tell whether anything is in a
copyrighted or public domain status, and, it will take some research
to find out. . .this alone is enough to stop most public domain use.
However, even AFTER doing all the copyright research, the struggling
"New Age Public Domain Information Providers" will find that none of
the materials they research will be in the Public Domain. . .none in
the sense that the number will be closer to 0% than to 1%. . .closer
by a HUGE margin to 0% than to 1%.
If the New York Times' estimates of 7 years for information doubling
may be considered at all correct, then this is what will happen in a
United States under the new copyright law, even if we considered 100
percent of current information to the entered into the Public Domain
as an incentive to let this law stand:
0 years. . .100% of today's information is in the Public Domain
7 years. . . 50% of today's information is in the Public Domain
14 years. . . 25% of today's information is in the Public Domain
21 years. . . 12.5% of today's information is in the Public Domain
28 years. . . 6.25% of today's information is in the Public Domain
35 years. . . 3.125% of today's information is in the Public Domain
42 years. . . 1.5625% of today's information is in the Public Domain
49 years. . . 0.78125% of today's information is in the Public Domain
56 years. . . 0.390625% of today's information is in the Public Domain
63 years. . . 0.1953125% of today's information is in the Public Domain
70 years. . . 0.09765625% of today's information is in the Public Domain
77 years. . . 0.048828125% of today's information is in the Public Domain
84 years. . . 0.0244140625% of today's information is in the Public Domain
91 years. . . 0.01220703125% of today's information is in the Public Domain
98 years. . . 0.006103515625% of today's information is in the Public Domain
This is literally just one book out of some 10,000 books that will be
in the Public Domain after about 95 years of a 95 year copyright even
if information does NOT continue to increase faster and faster. . . .
Many people think information is ALREADY doubling faster than 7 years
for each doubling, but all that does is make the total reach 0.00001%
etc., etc., etc.
And you though Big Brother had a thing for monopolizing information.
This is the beginning of
The Information Wars
Since they can no longer stop us from talking to each other via email
or etext or the Web, or FTP, etc., they are passing laws that tell us
we cannot include 99.99% of all the information in the world, because
it is not all protected by copyright.
One last word about the new copyright law. . . .
I plan to be in court as soon as possible as a test case to defeat it
once and for all. . .wish me luck!
4. The 36 Project Gutenberg Etexts for April, 1999.
We have chosen, with great effort and glee, to present what many call
the greatest epic of all time as our lead story this month. . .in two
separate translations. . .The Odyssey, by Homer.
We are also including more Plato and Socrates, O Henry, H. Rider Haggard, and
B. M. Bower, as well as several more G. K Chestertons, Balzacs, Conrads, etc.
including some of Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte. We also included a bit
more Mary Roberts Rinehart and Jules Verne.
We hope you enjoy reading these as much as we enjoy bringing them to you.
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Correction from last month:
Mar 1999 1492, by Mary Johnston [For Columbus Day, 1998] [c1492xxx.xxx]1692
Johnston. . .not Johnson
Apr 1999 The Odyssey, by Homer, Butcher & Lang Tr[Homer #3][dyssyxxa.xxx]1728
This is currently dyssy08a.txt and .zip, will be 10a when proofing completed.
Apr 1999 The Odyssey, by Homer, Trans by Butler [Homer #2][dyssyxxx.xxx]1727
This is version dyssy10.txt and .zip
Also see Collection of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica [homerxxx.xxx] 348
Apr 1999 Theaetetus, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #25][thtusxxx.xxx]1726
Apr 1999 Heart of the West, by O Henry [O Henry #5][hrtwsxxx.xxx]1725
Apr 1999 Finished, by H. Rider Haggard[H. Rider Haggard #6][fnshdxxx.xxx]1724
Apr 1999 Cow-Country, by B. M. Bower [B. M. Bower Etext #6][cwcntxxx.xxx]1723
Apr 1999 Martin Luther's Large Catechism, Bente & Dau, Trns[lrgctxxx.xxx]1722
Apr 1999 The Trees of Pride, by Gilbert K. Chesterton [#12][trprdxxx.xxx]1721
Apr 1999 The Man Who Knew Too Much, by G. K. Chesterton #5A[mwktmxxa.xxx]1720
From a different source than our February edition of this.
Apr 1999 The Ballad of the White Horse by GK Chesterton #11[botwhxxx.xxx]1719
Apr 1999 Manalive, by G. K. Chesterton[G.K. Chesterton #10][mnalvxxx.xxx]1718
Apr 1999 What's Wrong With The World, by GK Chesterton [#9][wwwtwxxx.xxx]1717
Apr 1999 Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary Wilkins Freeman#2[cpyctxxx.xxx]1716
Apr 1999 Eugenie Grandet, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #63][gngndxxx.xxx]1715
Apr 1999 Another Study of Woman, by Honore de Balzac[dB#62][nswmnxxx.xxx]1714
Apr 1999 Lincoln's Personal Life by Nathaniel W. Stephenson[lsplfxxx.xxx]1713
Apr 1999 The Rescue, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #23][trscuxxx.xxx]1712
Apr 1999 Child of Storm, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #5][cstrmxxx.xxx]1711
Apr 1999 La Grande Breteche, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#61][brtchxxx.xxx]1710
Apr 1999 New Grub Street, by George Gissing [Gissing #2][nwgrbxxx.xxx]1709
John Handford <John@croulant.demon.co.uk>*
Apr 1999 A History of Science, V 4, by Henry Smith Williams[4hscixxx.xxx]1708
Apr 1999 A History of Science, V 3, by Henry Smith Williams[3hscixxx.xxx]1707
Apr 1999 A History of Science, V 2, by Henry Smith Williams[2hscixxx.xxx]1706
Apr 1999 A History of Science, V 1, by Henry Smith Williams[1hscixxx.xxx]1705
There is also a V 5, but we haven't done that one yet. . . .
Apr 1999 Pierrette, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #60][prrttxxx.xxx]1704
Apr 1999 Dead Men Tell No Tales, by E. W. Hornung [EWH #3][dmtntxxx.xxx]1703
Apr 1999 19th Century Actor Autobiographies, by George Iles[aautoxxx.xxx]1702
Apr 1999 Story Of Waitstill Baxter, by Kate D. Wiggin [#10][tsowbxxx.xxx]1701
Apr 1999 Life of Charlotte Bronte, V2, by E. C. Gaskell[#2][2locbxxx.xxx]1700
Apr 1999 The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips Oppenheim #4[vmsgrxxx.xxx]1699
Apr 1999 The Survivors of the Chancellor, by Jules Verne #8[tsotcxxa.xxx]1698
This is from a different source than our previous edition.
Apr 1999 Madam How and Lady Why, by Charles Kingsley[CK #7][hwwhyxxx.xxx]1697
Apr 1999 The Club of Queer Trades, by G. K. Chesterton/GKC8[tcoqtxxx.xxx]1696
Apr 1999 The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton/GKC7[tmwhtxxx.xxx]1695
Apr 1999 Our Legal Heritage, by S. A. Reilly [rlglhxxx.xxx]1694
Apr 1999 Dangerous Days, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [MRR #8] [ddaysxxx.xxx]1693
5. The 49 NEW Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Shakespeare,
this one is in the Public Domain, at least in the U.S.
Remember: these are in /etext98, we reserved the slots for them
before we got on the HUGE production run that doubled the Etexts
coming out over the past three months. . .during this period our
volunteers have created about 266 Etext files for you to read.
The revised versions of our OLD Shakespeare are done and will be
announced. . .I just don't have the filenames for them. . .since
we didn't release them as separate files back in 1994, we cannot
just put them in /etext94 as updates to old filenames. This may
mean they will have to appear as June and July, 1999 Etexts; the
April Etexts are all done, and we may have already started May.
Nov 1998 Locrine/Mucedorus, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws48xxx.xxx]1548
Nov 1998 Sir Thomas More, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws47xxx.xxx]1547
Nov 1998 Sonnets/Sundry Notes of Music, William Shakespeare[1ws46xxx.xxx]1546
Nov 1998 The Passionate Pilgrim, by William Shakespeare [3ws45xxx.xxx]1545
Nov 1998 The Passionate Pilgrim, by William Shakespeare [2ws45xxx.xxx]1544
Nov 1998 A Lover's Complaint, by William Shakespeare [2ws44xxx.xxx]1543
Nov 1998 The Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare Apocrypha [2ws43xxx.xxx]1542
Nov 1998 King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare [2ws43xxx.xxx]1541
Nov 1998 The Tempest, by William Shakespeare [2ws41xxx.xxx]1540
Nov 1998 The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare [2ws40xxx.xxx]1539
Nov 1998 Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare [2ws39xxx.xxx]1538
Nov 1998 Pericles, by William Shakespeare [2ws38xxx.xxx]1537
Nov 1998 Timon of Athens, by William Shakespeare [2ws37xxx.xxx]1536
Nov 1998 Coriolanus, by William Shakespeare [2ws36xxx.xxx]1535
Nov 1998 Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare [2ws35xxx.xxx]1534
Nov 1998 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [2ws34xxx.xxx]1533
Nov 1998 King Lear, by William Shakespeare [2ws33xxx.xxx]1532
Nov 1998 Othello, by Shakespeare [2ws32xxx.xxx]1531
Nov 1998 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [2ws31xxx.xxx]1530
Nov 1998 All's Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare [2ws30xxx.xxx]1529
Nov 1998 Troilus and Cressida, by William Shakespeare [2ws29xxx.xxx]1528
Nov 1998 Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare [3ws28xxx.xxx]1527
Nov 1998 Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare [2ws28xxx.xxx]1526
Nov 1998 The Phoenix and the Turtle, by William Shakespeare[2ws27xxx.xxx]1525
Nov 1998 Hamlet, by William Shakespeare [2ws26xxx.xxx]1524
Nov 1998 As You Like It, by William Shakespeare [2ws25xxx.xxx]1523
Nov 1998 Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare [2ws24xxx.xxx]1522
Nov 1998 King Henry V, by William Shakespeare [2ws23xxx.xxx]1521
Nov 1998 Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare [3ws22xxx.xxx]1520
Nov 1998 Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare [2ws22xxx.xxx]1519
Nov 1998 King Henry IV, Part 2, by William Shakespeare [2ws21xxx.xxx]1518
Nov 1998 The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare[2ws20xxx.xxx]1517
Nov 1998 King Henry IV, Part 1, by William Shakespeare [2ws19xxx.xxx]1516
Nov 1998 The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare [2ws18xxx.xxx]1515
Nov 1998 A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare [2ws17xxx.xxx]1514
Nov 1998 Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare [2ws16xxx.xxx]1513
Oct 1998 King Richard II, by William Shakespeare [2ws15xxx.xxx]1512
Oct 1998 King John, by William Shakespeare [2ws14xxx.xxx]1511
Oct 1998 Love's Labour's Lost, by William Shakespeare [2ws12xxx.xxx]1510
Oct 1998 Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare [2ws11xxx.xxx]1509
Oct 1998 The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare [2ws10xxx.xxx]1508
Oct 1998 The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, by Wm Shakespeare[2ws09xxx.xxx]1507
Oct 1998 The Rape of Lucrece, by William Shakespeare [3ws08xxx.xxx]1506
Oct 1998 The Rape of Lucrece, by William Shakespeare [2ws08xxx.xxx]1505
Oct 1998 The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare [2ws06xxx.xxx]1504
Oct 1998 King Richard III, by William Shakespeare [2ws04xxx.xxx]1503
Oct 1998 King Henry VI, Part 3, by William Shakespeare [2ws03xxx.xxx]1502
Oct 1998 King Henry VI, Part 2, by William Shakespeare [2ws02xxx.xxx]1501
Oct 1998 King Henry VI, Part 1, by William Shakespeare [2ws01xxx.xxx]1500
6. The NEWLY REVISED editions of our 100th Etext, the copyrighted
version of Shakespeare's works. . .1,000s of errors corrected!
These will likely be in /etext99, stay tuned for Newsletters from
Sue and Greg about these.
The filenames will be same as above only instead of starting with
a 2 or 3, they will start with 1, and the revision number is 11:
so 2ws0110.txt and .zip are the NEW Public Domain edition of Henry
as listed above in /etect98
and 1ws0111.txt and .zip will be the revised [11] old copyrighted edition
in /etext94 and the new files will be in /etext99
If you have any problems finding these on your own, you can ask
Sue Asscher, listed above, how to find them. If you are using
an index, don't forget that it takes our indexers quite a while
to get this many etext indexed, so you might want learn how to
use FTP, or the FTP functions in your browers, to get them now.
Remember: if you get these files directly, without a "point and click"
you will need to go to three different directories:
April will be in /etext99
The NEW Shakespeare will be in /etext98
The revised versions from Etext #100 will be in /etext99
The original version of Etext #100 is still in /etext94
Etext #100 was originally released on December 10, 1993,
for an official release date of January, 1994.
Hard to believe we have posted 1628 Etexts since then,
an average of nearly one Etext per day. [Literally ~.9]
7. Who is "the cat in the Cat in the Hat hat," anyway? Or what?
I am pictured as the 2nd in the list of the Wired 25 for 1998 and
since I don't like having my picture taken, I tend to clown a bit
for the camera to make it more exciting. . .so I am sitting in my
chair in the middle of a country road through the cornfields with
a "long-stemmed American Beauty" between my teeth. . .well you'll
understand when/if you see the picture. . .and I'm wearing my own
trademark red t-shirt with a "Cat in the Hat" hat. . . .
OK, let's make it brief, I often either break into a sweat or may
seem too self-important when these things come up. . . .
First. . .please let me remind you that I probably do less than 1
percent of the work it takes to do Project Gutenberg; maybe less,
when I consider how many Project Gutenberg sites there are that I
don't even know about, and probably never will.
I accept any awards to Project Gutenberg, or myself, on behalf of
all of our volunteers, past, present and future and I forward all
the "Thank You Notes" I get, whether via email or snailmail on to
the entire list of volunteers on our listserver.
I tried to get WIRED to give this award to Project Gutenberg as a
whole: and you probably don't want to hear the whole story about
that. . . .
To make a long story short Wired finally seems to have bought the
tickets to send me to the award banquet to receive "The WIRED 25"
award, for which they commisioned a world famous architect, and I
also get a pair of tennis shoes, a hotel room, and a limo, to and
from LAX. . .I promise to enjoy it all as much as possible in the
honor of all our volunteers.
"THOSE WHO DARE
THE WIRED 25
A SALUTE TO:
DREAMERS,
INVENTORS,
MAVERICKS,
LEADERS"
"Life is short.
"Especially when you're determined to break all the rules."
If you want to read the rest, I suppose I should encourage
you to go out and buy the November issue of Wired. . .it says
THE WIRED 25 right in the middle of the cover, can't miss it.
The first half of my name is obscured by the 25. . . .
IT'S OFFICIAL: NEW NAME FOR NT 5.0.
The next-gen OS becomes "Windows 2000."
They are trying to get it out before 2000.
Nov 1998 Locrine/Mucedorus, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws48xxx.xxx]1548
Nov 1998 Sir Thomas More, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws47xxx.xxx]1547
Nov 1998 Sonnets/Sundry Notes of Music, William Shakespeare[1ws46xxx.xxx]1546
Nov 1998 The Passionate Pilgrim, by William Shakespeare [3ws45xxx.xxx]1545
Nov 1998 The Passionate Pilgrim, by William Shakespeare [2ws45xxx.xxx]1544
Nov 1998 A Lover's Complaint, by William Shakespeare [2ws44xxx.xxx]1543
Nov 1998 The Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare Apocrypha [2ws43xxx.xxx]1542
Nov 1998 King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare [2ws43xxx.xxx]1541
Nov 1998 The Tempest, by William Shakespeare [2ws41xxx.xxx]1540
Nov 1998 The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare [2ws40xxx.xxx]1539
Nov 1998 Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare [2ws39xxx.xxx]1538
Nov 1998 Pericles, by William Shakespeare [2ws38xxx.xxx]1537
Nov 1998 Timon of Athens, by William Shakespeare [2ws37xxx.xxx]1536
Nov 1998 Coriolanus, by William Shakespeare [2ws36xxx.xxx]1535
Nov 1998 Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare [2ws35xxx.xxx]1534
Nov 1998 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [2ws34xxx.xxx]1533
Nov 1998 King Lear, by William Shakespeare [2ws33xxx.xxx]1532
Nov 1998 Othello, by Shakespeare [2ws32xxx.xxx]1531
Nov 1998 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [2ws31xxx.xxx]1530
Nov 1998 All's Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare [2ws30xxx.xxx]1529
Nov 1998 Troilus and Cressida, by William Shakespeare [2ws29xxx.xxx]1528
Nov 1998 Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare [3ws28xxx.xxx]1527
Nov 1998 Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare [2ws28xxx.xxx]1526
Nov 1998 The Phoenix and the Turtle, by William Shakespeare[2ws27xxx.xxx]1525
Nov 1998 Hamlet, by William Shakespeare [2ws26xxx.xxx]1524
Nov 1998 As You Like It, by William Shakespeare [2ws25xxx.xxx]1523
Nov 1998 Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare [2ws24xxx.xxx]1522
Nov 1998 King Henry V, by William Shakespeare [2ws23xxx.xxx]1521
Nov 1998 Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare [3ws22xxx.xxx]1520
Nov 1998 Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare [2ws22xxx.xxx]1519
Nov 1998 King Henry IV, Part 2, by William Shakespeare [2ws21xxx.xxx]1518
Nov 1998 The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare[2ws20xxx.xxx]1517
Nov 1998 King Henry IV, Part 1, by William Shakespeare [2ws19xxx.xxx]1516
Nov 1998 The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare [2ws18xxx.xxx]1515
Nov 1998 A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare [2ws17xxx.xxx]1514
Nov 1998 Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare [2ws16xxx.xxx]1513
Oct 1998 King Richard II, by William Shakespeare [2ws15xxx.xxx]1512
Oct 1998 King John, by William Shakespeare [2ws14xxx.xxx]1511
Oct 1998 Love's Labour's Lost, by William Shakespeare [2ws12xxx.xxx]1510
Oct 1998 Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare [2ws11xxx.xxx]1509
Oct 1998 The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare [2ws10xxx.xxx]1508
Oct 1998 The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, by Wm Shakespeare[2ws09xxx.xxx]1507
Oct 1998 The Rape of Lucrece, by William Shakespeare [3ws08xxx.xxx]1506
Oct 1998 The Rape of Lucrece, by William Shakespeare [2ws08xxx.xxx]1505
Oct 1998 The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare [2ws06xxx.xxx]1504
Oct 1998 King Richard III, by William Shakespeare [2ws04xxx.xxx]1503
Oct 1998 King Henry VI, Part 3, by William Shakespeare [2ws03xxx.xxx]1502
Oct 1998 King Henry VI, Part 2, by William Shakespeare [2ws02xxx.xxx]1501
Oct 1998 King Henry VI, Part 1, by William Shakespeare [2ws01xxx.xxx]1500
MICROSOFT SAYS IT WAS NETSCAPE THAT SUGGESTED A DEAL
In the antitrust suit against Microsoft, Microsoft has introduced a December
1994 e-mail message from Netscape chairman James Clark as evidence that it
was Netscape rather than Microsoft that first suggested an arrangement to
illegally restrain trade. Clark had written to a Microsoft executive: "We
have never planned to compete with you. We want to make this company a
success, but not at Microsoft's expense. We'd like to work with you.
Working together could be in your self-interest as well as ours. Depending
on the interest level, you might take an equity position in Netscape, with
the ability to expand the position later." He added: "No one in my
organization knows about this message." A Microsoft attorney yesterday
asked Netscape president James Barksdale of Netscape chairman and cofounder
James Clark: "Do you regard him as a truthful man?" Barksdale paused and
then replied: "I regard him as a salesman." The Microsoft attorney said:
"I'm not going to touch that." (New York Times 22 Oct 98)
ANOTHER TRY AT FREE NET SERVICE
NetZero Inc. is offering free Internet service to consumers, operating on an
advertising-based business model. The company isn't selling your typical
banner ad, however. NetZero's banners can "follow" users from site to site
as they peruse the Web. The company says it's spent a year developing
software that tracks users' habits, enabling advertisers to pinpoint their
messages more efficiently. "We can target within a 12-mile radius of where
(a subscriber) lives," says NetZero's CEO. Idealab Capital Partners, which
is backing the venture, thinks subscribers will like the free access despite
the ads. "People are spending $21.95 a month for AOL -- that's a lot of
money," says Idealab's managing director. "We offer a value proposition
that's hard to beat." (Investor's Business Daily 19 Oct 98)
"GRASSROOTS" LOBBY EFFORT ROOTED AT AT&T
The Prince George's Coalition Against Hidden Taxes, supposedly a grassroots
lobbying effort organized in Maryland, has been revealed to be a massive
effort by AT&T to defeat proposed legislation that would charge a fee of 3%
of gross revenues generated by telecom companies seeking to use public
rights of way to lay cable, string wire, or plant cellular towers to provide
new services. AT&T considers the legislation unfair because it singles out
telecommunications companies from other users of public land, such as
sanitary commissions and gas & electric companies. Calling the Coalition's
media campaign a "massive fraud," the Prince George's County chief executive
said, "This isn't any citizens coalition. This is a bunch of giant
companies trying to profit off the public for free." (Washington Post 24
Oct 98)
E-BOOKS TO COME SINGING DOWN THE WIRE
Saying that "if you can get to the Web, you can buy a book -- instantly,"
the chief executive of NuvoMedia unveiled his company's paperback-size,
22-ounce $499 electronic Rocket eBook at Barnes & Noble, the bookstore and
publishing company that will make titles available for downloading onto a
personal computer. Books will sell for $18 to $25, and downloading of a
book will take 2 to 5 minutes. Tapping a button will allow the reader to
scroll through the book, which will include a built-in dictionary and allow
electronic underlining, note-taking, word search, and font changes.
Generally similar products are being developed by other manufacturers,
including SoftBook Press and Everybook Inc. (AP 23 Oct 98)
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Here are the 36 Etexts for March, 1999
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Mar 1999 1492, by Mary Johnson [For Columbus Day, 1998] [c1492xxx.xxx]1692
This Etext is being posted on October 12, 1998, Columbus Day, US
We are several months ahead of schedule, so it appears as March.
Mar 1999 I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. [dreamxxx.xxx]1691
We originally did this on Martin Luther King Day, a few years ago, but waited
until all the court cases were completed before posting. Note inside Etext.
Mar 1999 Marie, by H. Rider Haggard [H. Rider Haggard #4][mariexxx.xxx]1690
Mar 1999 The Pivot of Civilization, By Margaret Sanger [pvcvlxxx.xxx]1689
Mar 1999 The People of the Abyss, by Jack London[London#70][tpotaxxx.xxx]1688
Mar 1999 Parmenides, by Plato [More Socrates] Plato #24][prmdsxxx.xxx]1687
Mar 1999 The Secret of the Night, by Gaston Leroux [GL #3][tsotnxxx.xxx]1686
Mar 1999 Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux[GL#2][ylormxxx.xxx]1685
This Etext contains ASCII diagrams, so views best with non-proportional fonts
Mar 1999 The Egoist, by George Meredith[George Meredith #6][egostxxx.xxx]1684
Mar 1999 Honorine, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#59][hnrnexxx.xxx]1683
Mar 1999 Menexenus, by Plato [Yet More Socrates] [Plato#23][mnxnsxxx.xxx]1682
Mar 1999 Eryxias, not by Plato [More Socrates] [Plato#22][ryxisxxx.xxx]1681
Mar 1999 At the Sign of the Cat & Racket, by Balzac[Hdb#58][ctrktxxx.xxx]1680
Mar 1999 Hiram The Young Farmer, by Burbank L. Todd [hrmyfxxx.xxx]1679
Mar 1999 An Historical Mystery, by Honore de Balzac[HdB#57][hmystxxx.xxx]1678
Mar 1999 Alcibiades II, not Plato [More Socrates][Plato#21][2lcbdxxx.xxx]1677
Mar 1999 Alcibiades I, by Plato? [More Socrates] [Plato#20][1lcbdxxx.xxx]1676
Mar 1999 New Forces in Old China, by Arthur Judson Brown [ldchnxxx.xxx]1675
Mar 1999 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth [Slavery] [sjrnrxxx.xxx]1674
Mar 1999 Lesser Hippias, by [?]Plato[More Socrates]Plato19][lhppsxxx.xxx]1673
Mar 1999 Gorgias, by Plato [A Socratic Dialog] [Plato #18][grgisxxx.xxx]1672
Mar 1999 When a Man Marries, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [#7][whammxxx.xxx]1671
Mar 1999 Martin Luther's Small Catechism, Trns. by R. Smith[smlctxxx.xxx]1670
The above Etexts are Not on archive.org, which may be back up now...
Mar 1999 The Human Drift, by Jack London[Jack London#62-69][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
A Collection of Stories Which Includes:
Mar 1999 The Birth Mark (Sketch), by Jack London[London#69][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) by Jack London #68[hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 A Classic of the Sea, by Jack London [London #67][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 That Dead Men Rise up Never, by Jack London [#66][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 Nothing that Ever Came to Anything, by London[#65][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 Four Horses and a Sailor, by Jack London/London#64[hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 Small-Boat Sailing, by Jack London[Jack London#63][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 The Human Drift, by Jack London [Jack London #62][hmndrxxx.xxx]1669
Mar 1999 Death of the Laird's Jock, by Walter Scott [WS #8][tpschxxx.xxx]1668
Mar 1999 The Tapestried Chamber, by Walter Scott [WS #7][tpschxxx.xxx]1668
Mar 1999 My Aunt Margaret's Mirror, by Walter Scott [WS #6][mamsmxxx.xxx]1667
Mar 1999 The Golden Asse, by Lucius Apuleius "Africanus" [gldnsxxx.xxx]1666
Mar 1999 Derrick Vaughan--Novelist, by Edna Lyall [dvnvlxxx.xxx]1665
Mar 1999 Songs for Parents, by John Farrar [sfparxxx.xxx]1664
Mar 1999 Webster's March 7th Speech/Secession, by HD Foster[wsm7sxxx.xxx]1663
resend when pnet mailer is upper
Mar 1999 The 1997 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook #7][No#6][world97x.xxx]1662
Mar 1999 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 A Scandal in Bohemia, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Red-headed League, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 A Case of Identity, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Boscombe Valley Mystery, by A Conan Doyle[#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Five Orange Pips, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Man with the Twisted Lip by A. Conan Doyle #15[advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, by Doyle[#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Speckled Band, by Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb by Doyle #15[advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, by Doyle[#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, by Doyle [#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, by Doyle[#15][advshxxx.xxx]1661
Mar 1999 Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, by Balzac[HdB #56][sfaclxxx.xxx]1660
Mar 1999 The Girl with the Golden Eyes, by Balzac [HdB #55][gwtgixxx.xxx]1659
Mar 1999 Phaedo, by Plato [AKA"The Death of Socrates 3"]#17[phadoxxx.xxx]1658
Mar 1999 Crito, by Plato [AKA"The Death of Socrates 2"]#16[critoxxx.xxx]1657
Feb 1999 Apology, by Plato[AKA"The Death of Socrates 1"]#15[pplgyxxx.xxx]1656
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WEB PATENTS WEAVE CONFUSION
A federal appellate court ruling in July confirming that computerized
"business methods" can be patented has sparked a wave of patent applications
that electronic commerce proponents fear will amount to "holdups in
cyberspace." The July case involved a computerized mathematical formula for
apportioning the administrative costs associated with a family of mutual
funds, but by "claiming the computer as part of the invention, you can make
things patentable that weren't patentable before," says a patent attorney in
California. Skeptics say many of the new patents won't hold up in court,
and will suffer the same fate as the 1993 patent granted to Compton New
Media, protecting a method for combining text, audio and video on a compact
disk. That patent was revoked in 1994, after critics demonstrated the
technology was already in common use. "Everyone is under the impression the
Patent Office thoroughly investigates your claims," says a Forrester
Research analyst. "They really don't." (Wall Street Journal 9 Oct 98)
[Compton's also tried to TradeMark the term Multimedia. . .a term I had
used in print as early as the late '70's. . .I still have copies. . .]
PCs BREAK $500 PRICE BARRIER
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that newly formed Emachines is
introducing a fully equipped PC, including a monitor, for less than $500.
The $499 eTower sports a 266 MHz Cyrix microprocessor, a 2.1 gigabyte hard
drive, 32 megabytes of memory, a 56K modem, a CD-ROM drive and a 14-inch
monitor. The same machine can be purchased without the monitor for $399.
"Five hundred dollars is the magic number for opening up the next wave of
adopters in the home," says the company's CEO. Emachines is a joint venture
of two Korean companies -- TriGem and Korean Data Systems. The company is
planning to offer several other computers in the next year or so, including
a 300 MHz eTower with monitor for $599, an ultralight notebook for under
$2,000 and an entertainment device for playing games and watching DVD
movies. (St. Petersburg Times 10 Oct 98)
SHOULD THE NET BE PRIVATIZED?
The organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility has
begun a battle against a Clinton Administration plan that would largely turn
over management of Internet domain names to an as-yet-unformed nonprofit
corporation. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, a member of the group,
says the plan is flawed because it gives too much power to a commercially
minded corporation with a potentially self-perpetuating board. Saying that
such an entity is unlikely to be a strong enough watchdog for privacy, free
speech, due process and other democratic values, Lessig asks: "If
government doesn't protect those values, who will?" (AP 10 Oct 98)
COMPUTERS INSTEAD OF CASH ON CAL. STATE CAMPUS
California State University at San Marcos is offering needy students
computers rather than tuition money as part of a new scholarship program.
The students receive a laptop, a set of software and technical training. If
they graduate, they get to keep the computer. "We're a very high-tech
university with a lot of low-income students," says the school's
financial-aid director. "We have been wrestling with a problem of the
'have/have-not.'" The university requires all students to demonstrate
computer literacy during their first year. (Chronicle of Higher Education 9
Oct 98)
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