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Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter [Lots! More Free Books]
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.]
Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy
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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To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:40:21 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter: Wednesday, December 2, 1998
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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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>From Edupage:
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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From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:59:52 -0500 (CDT)
This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter for Wednesday, November 4, 1998
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We need: Rimbaud Works in French or English
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Needs Kafka text called "The Gentle Art of Roasting."
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Change in spelling. . .
Count Bunker, by J. Storer Clousten [cbnkrxxx.xxx]1613
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Here are the 36 Etexts for Februray, 1999, including 4 from March.
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
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
Feb 1999 The God of His Fathers, by Jack London[London #61][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 The Great Interrogation by Jack London[London #60][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 Which Make Men Remember by Jack London[London #59][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 Siwash, by Jack London [Jack London #58][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 The Man with the Gash, by Jack London [London #57][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 Jan, the Unrepentant, by Jack London [London #56][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 Grit of Women, by Jack London [Jack London #55][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 Where the Trail Forks , by Jack London[London #54][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 A Daughter of the Aurora by Jack London[London#53][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 At the Rainbow's End, by Jack London [London #52][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 The Scorn of Women, by Jack London [London #51][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 Tales of the Klondyke, by Jack London [JL #51-#61][klndkxxx.xxx]1655
Feb 1999 An Unsocial Socialist, by George Bernard Shaw [#6][unsocxxx.xxx]1654
Feb 1999 The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas A Kempis [mcrstxxx.xxx]1653
Feb 1999 The Survivors of the Chancellor, by Jules Verne #8[tsotcxxx.xxx]1652
Feb 1999 The Mystery of Orcival, by Emile Gaboriau [EG #1][orcvlxxx.xxx]1651
Feb 1999 The Light of Egypt, Volume II, by Wagner/Burgoyne [2tloexxx.xxx]1650
Feb 1999 Ferragus, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#54][frrgsxxx.xxx]1649
Feb 1999 The Trees of Pride, by G. K. Chesterton [G.K.C.#6][trprdxxx.xxx]1648
Feb 1999 The Man Who Knew Too Much, by G. K. Chesterton[#5][mwktmxxx.xxx]1647
Feb 1999 Roads of Destiny, by O. Henry [O Henry #4][rdstnxxx.xxx]1646
Feb 1999 Rhymes a la Mode, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #13][rmalmxxx.xxx]1645
Feb 1999 The Adventures of Gerard, by Arthur Conan Doyle/14[agrrdxxx.xxx]1644
Feb 1999 Meno, by Plato, Trans by Benjamin Jowett[Plato#14][1menoxxx.xxx]1643
Feb 1999 Euthyphro, by Plato, Trans by B. Jowett [Plato#13][uthphxxx.xxx]1642
Feb 1999 The Lesser Bourgeoisie, by Honore de Balzac[dB#53][lsbrgxxx.xxx]1641
Feb 1999 Lilith, by George MacDonald [George MacDonald #5][lilthxxx.xxx]1640
Feb 1999 Eve and David, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #52][evdvdxxx.xxx]1639
Feb 1999 The New Revelation, by Arthur Conan Doyle[Doyle13][nrvlnxxx.xxx]1638
Feb 1999 Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc, by Kingsley[#7][saslexxx.xxx]1637
Feb 1999 Phaedrus, by Plato, Trans by Ben. Jowett[Plato#12][phdrsxxx.xxx]1636
Feb 1999 Ion, by Plato, Trans. by Benjamin Jowett[Plato#11][ionbpxxx.xxx]1635
Feb 1999 The Foolish Virgin, by Thomas Dixon [fvrgnxxx.xxx]1634
Feb 1999 The Brick Moon, et. al., by Edward Everett Hale [brkmnxxx.xxx]1633
Feb 1999 A Book of Scoundrels, by Charles Whibley [abkosxxx.xxx]1632
Feb 1999 A Monk of Fife, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #12][mnkffxxx.xxx]1631
Feb 1999 Little Novels, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #19][lnvlsxxx.xxx]1630
Feb 1999 I Say No, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #18][isyanxxx.xxx]1629
Feb 1999 My Lady's Money, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #17][mlmnyxxx.xxx]1628
Feb 1999 The Evil Genius, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #16][vlgnsxxx.xxx]1627
Feb 1999 After Dark, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #15][ftrdkxxx.xxx]1626
Feb 1999 The Frozen Deep, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #14][frzdpxxx.xxx]1625
Feb 1999 The Two Destinies, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #13][2dstnxxx.xxx]1624
Feb 1999 The New Magdalen, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #12][nmgdlxxx.xxx]1623
Feb 1999 The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins[Collins11][lwldyxxx.xxx]1622
Feb 1999 Miss or Mrs?, by Wilkie Collins[Wilkie Collins#10][miomsxxx.xxx]1621
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>From Edupage:
UNIVERSITIES PUSH PROFESSORS TO RETAIN COPYRIGHTS
There's a growing movement among academicians and their institutions to
retain the copyright on articles published in scholarly journals, rather
than turning those rights over to the publisher as is usual. The California
Institute of Technology will be hosting a three-month-long discussion of the
subject on an electronic network, beginning Oct. 1. "It became clear to
me," says Caltech provost Steven Koonin, "that copyright is the linchpin. If
you're going to change that system, copyright is the nexus that you have to
go after." Other universities now considering turning the tables on
publishers include Yale University and the University of Kansas. Koonin
says he'd like to see Caltech and its faculty members jointly own the
copyrights to journal articles and license those rights to publishers on a
limited basis. "The publishers have basically been getting a free good up
to this point -- which is the copyright." Meanwhile, publishers are not
enthusiastic about the movement, and an Elsevier Science VP says she has
"serious reservations" about a university policy that would require its
professors to retain their copyrights. (Chronicle of Higher Education 18
Sep 98)
THE CHECK IS STILL IN THE MAIL...
More than 47.4 billion business and personal checks were printed last year,
up 1.4% from 1996. "Checks are a U.S., Canada and U.K. phenomenon," says a
Citibank VP. "In the U.S., having more than 12,000 banks and savings and
loans makes it hard to agree on electronic standards, which encourages
checks." Not only that, but banks benefit from selling all those checks, to
the tune of $1.7 billion last year -- that doesn't include the additional $1
billion they made charging for bounced checks. And issuing paper checks
enables the banks to keep closer tabs on their customers. When people move,
one of the first things they do is order new checks. But all this may be
changing -- a new standard called IFX is due out in February, which will
enable consumers to receive bills online from any vendor, and analysts say
people are much more likely to pay an electronic invoice electronically
(and, conversely, a paper bill with a paper check). "When checkless
transactions do catch on, the adoption rate will be tremendous," predicts a
Deutsche Bank analyst. (Investor's Business Daily 22 Sep 98)
NET SURFING VS. CHANNEL SURFING
As people become active surfer on the Internet, do they watch less
television? A study commissioned by Discovery Networks has concluded that,
as households begin to use the Internet, television use by teenagers tends
to drop but use by everyone else tends to increase. (New York Times 21 Sep 98)
FREE INTERNET SERVICE IN THE U.K.
British consumer electronics retailer Dixons Group and telecommunications
firm Energis are teaming up to provide a free Internet service to citizens
in the U.K. Users will not be required to pay any registration or usage
fees, but will be charged $1.68 a minute for technical support. The move is
expected to force other Internet service providers in that country to
reevaluate their pricing structures. (Wall Street Journal 23 Sep 98)
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Charmides, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator #5 [crmdsxxx.xxx]1580old
Charmides, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator #5 [chmdsxxx.xxx]1580new
^^^^^
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Jan 1999 Lion and the Unicorn, by Richard Harding Davis[10][liunixxx.xxx]1620
Jan 1999 La Celestina, by Fernando de Rojas, in Spanish (C)[clstnxxx.xxx]1619C
Jan 1999 In Shadow of the Glen, by J. M. Synge [Synge #5][sglenxxx.xxx]1618
Jan 1999 Stories Of The Supernatural, by Mary Wilkins [sotsnxxx.xxx]1617
Jan 1999 The Wind in the Rose-Bush, et al, by Mary Wilkins [sotsnxxx.xxx]1617
Jan 1999 Cratylus, by Plato, B. Jowett, Trans. [Plato #10][crtlsxxx.xxx]1616
Jan 1999 Old English Libraries, by Ernest A. Savage [nglbsxxx.xxx]1615
Jan 1999 The Golden Fleece, by Julian Hawthorne [gldflxxx.xxx]1614
Jan 1999 Count Bunker, by J. Storer Clausen [cbnkrxxx.xxx]1613
Jan 1999 Poems By a Little Girl, by Hilda Conkling [pbalgxxx.xxx]1612
Jan 1999 Seventeen, by Booth Tarkington [B. Tarkington #7][svntnxxx.xxx]1611
Reserved for:
Jan 1999 The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, O.T. Part 2 [2drvbxxx.xxx]1610*
Jan 1999 The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, O.T. Part 1 [1drvbxxx.xxx]1609*
Jan 1999 Camille [La Dame aux Camilias], by A. Dumas, fils [cmllexxx.xxx]1608
Jan 1999 A Journey in Other Worlds, by J. J. Astor [ajiowxxx.xxx]1607
Jan 1999 Kenilworth, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #6][knlwtxxx.xxx]1606
Jan 1999 The Crock of Gold, by James Stephens [crkgdxxx.xxx]1605
Jan 1999 The Ebb-Tide by R.L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne[#3][ebtidxxx.xxx]1604
Jan 1999 The Blue Flower, by Henry van Dyke [van Dyke #5][blflrxxx.xxx]1603
Jan 1999 Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed, by Edna Ferber [dwnhrxxx.xxx]1602
Jan 1999 The Breaking Point, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [#6][brkptxxx.xxx]1601
Plato's translator, B. Jowett, says of the Symposium
"Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect
in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any
commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one
of his own writings, more than the author himself knew."
Jan 1998 Symposium, by Plato, B. Jowett, Trans. [Plato #9][sympoxxx.xxx]1600
Jan 1999 Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper, et. al. [cndrlxxx.xxx]1599
Jan 1998 Euthydemus, by Plato, B. Jowett, Trans. [Plato #8][uthydxxx.xxx]1598
Jan 1999 [Hans Christian] Andersen's Fairy Tales [HCA #1][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Emperor's New Clothes/Andersen Fairy Tales[#1][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Swineherd, Hans C. Andersen's Fairy Tales[#2][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Real Princess Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#3][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Fir Tree Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#4][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Snow Queen Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#5][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Leap-Frog Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#6][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Elderbush Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#7][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Bell Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#8][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Old House Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#9][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Happy Family/Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#10][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Story of a Mother Andersen Fairy Tales[#11][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The False Collar/Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#12][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Shadow Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#13][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Little Match Girl Andersen Fairy Tales[#14][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Dream of Little Tuk Andersen Fairy Tales[#15][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Naughty Boy Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#16][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 The Red Shoes Hans C. Andersen Fairy Tales[#17][hcaftxxx.xxx]1597
Jan 1999 Smoke Bellew, by Jack London [Jack London #50][smkblxxx.xxx]1596
Jan 1999 Whirligigs, by O Henry [O Henry #3][whrlgxxx.xxx]1595
Jan 1999 Essays in Little, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #11][eslttxxx.xxx]1594
Jan 1999 How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers, by Woods [httbfxxx.zip]1593
Jan 1999 Study of the King James Bible, Cleland Boyd McAfee[sokjvxxx.xxx]1592
Jan 1998 Protagoras, by Plato, B. Jowett, Trans. [Plato #7][prtgsxxx.xxx]1591
Jan 1999 The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart[#5][mzgntxxx.xxx]1590
Jan 1999 Tamburlaine the Great PT 2, by Christopher Marlowe[tmbn2xxx.xxx]1589
Jan 1999 A Rogue's Life, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #9][rgslfxxx.xxx]1588
Jan 1999 The Black Robe, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #8][blkrbxxx.xxx]1587
Jan 1999 Man and Wife, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #7][mandwxxx.xxx]1586
Jan 1999 The Wrong Box, by Stevenson & Osbourne [RLS#40][wrngbxxx.xxx]1585
and one for February:
Feb 1999 A Monk of Fife, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #12][mnkffxxx.xxx]1631
[The first 10 February slots were reserved for Wilkie Collins, so that is why
the number is 10 higher than you may have expected.]
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From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:31:37 -0500 (CDT)
This is he Project Gutenberg Newsletter: Wednesday, September 2, 1998
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**********This coming Tuesday is International Literacy Day!**********
September 8 is International Literacy Day, give someone the gift of an
assortment of Etexts on floppy disk; encourage them to pass on copies!
In honor of this we are posting more files this month than ever before
. . .from several different official release months, and when, finally
I get a chance to take a deep breath, I will post the new Shakespeare!
***
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We are scheduled to be listed in the "WIRED 25" in November's issue.
***Requests for Assistance***
We need a non- translated copy of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales,
something published before 1924. . . . Please contact me and also cc:
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Looking for a lecture Henry James delivered, and which was issued
in a magazine named Pall Mall Gazette (or something like that).
Paulo Costa Galvco
prgalvao@rio.com.br
Revista Brasil de Literatura
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
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Now, in a totally confusing order of months, here are ALL the December
Etexts, 23 of the October Etexts, and 5 of the January, 1999 Etexts.
**You may have to remind yourself when getting them to use /etext99**
[This is totally my [Michael Hart] fault, as I tend to get ahead of
myself on occasion, while not yet getting the new Shakespeare posted.]
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
Dec 1998 Laches, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator [Plato #6][lachsxxx.xxx]1584
Dec 1998 Options, by O Henry [O Henry #2][optnsxxx.xxx]1583
Dec 1998 Reserved for Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, NT [ xxx.xxx]1582
Dec 1998 Reserved for Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, all[ xxx.xxx]1581
Dec 1998 Charmides, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator #5 [crmdsxxx.xxx]1580
Dec 1998 Lysis, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #4 [lysisxxx.xxx]1579
Dec 1998 Aucassin and Nicolete, Tr. by Andrew Lang[Lang#10][aucncxxx.xxx]1578
Dec 1998 The Grey Room, by Eden Phillpotts [gryrmxxx.xxx]1577
Dec 1998 The Life of Phineas T. Barnum, by Joel Benton [ptbnmxxx.xxx]1576
Dec 1998 The Foundations of Personality, by Abraham Myerson[prstyxxx.xxx]1575
Dec 1998 Historic Girls, by E. S. Brooks [hgrlsxxx.xxx]1574
Dec 1998 Frank's Campaign/Farm & Camp, Horatio Alger Jr. #9[frcmpxxx.xxx]1573
Dec 1998 Timaeus, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #3 [tmeusxxx.xxx]1572
Dec 1998 Critias, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #2 [critixxx.xxx]1571
Dec 1998 The Power of Concentration, By Theron Q. Dumont [prconxxx.xxx]1570
Dec 1998 The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac[HdB#51][tlotvxxx.xxx]1569
Dec 1998 Poems, by William Ernest Henley[William Henley #2][pmwehxxx.xxx]1568
Dec 1998 Poems, by T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot [Eliot #3][tsepmxxx.xxx]1567
Dec 1998 The Evolution of Modern Medicine, by William Osler[teommxxx.xxx]1566
Dec 1998 Last Days of Pompeii, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton [tldopxxx.xxx]1565
Dec 1998 Life of Johnson by [James] Boswell [ljnsnxxx.xxx]1564
Dec 1998 The Crystal Stopper, by Maurice LeBlanc [cstprxxx.xxx]1563
Dec 1998 Little Rivers, by Henry van Dyke [van Dyke #4][ltrvsxxx.xxx]1562
Dec 1998 Pagan & Christian Creeds, by Edward Carpenter [pchrcxxx.xxx]1561
Dec 1998 The San Francisco Calamity, Charles Morris, Ed. [sfclmxxx.xxx]1560
Dec 1998 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, By Balzac #50[adpapxxx.xxx]1559
Dec 1998 The Profits of Religion, by Upton Sinclair [prfrlxxx.xxx]1558
Dec 1998 Men of Iron, by Ernie Howard Pyle [femenxxx.xxx]1557
Dec 1998 The Marriage Contract, by de Honore de Balzac[#49][mrgctxxx.xxx]1556
Dec 1998 A Passion in the Desert, by Honore de Balzac [#48][apitdxxx.xxx]1555
Dec 1998 Adieu, by Honore de Balzac [Honore de Balzac #47][adieuxxx.xxx]1554
Dec 1998 The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac[HdB#46][hmstpxxx.xxx]1553
Dec 1998 Most Interesting Stories of All Nations, Hawthorne[misanxxx.xxx]1552
Dec 1998 A Cathedral Courtship, by Kate Douglas Wiggin [#9][cthrcxxx.xxx]1551
Dec 1998 A Lady of Quality, by Frances Hodgson Burnett [#8][ladyqxxx.xxx]1550
Dec 1998 Commentary on Galatians, Martin Luther [mlgltxxx.xxx]1549
Please note that we have reserved 1500-1548 for Shakepeare, new editions.
This reserves the rest of the October Etexts and all the November Etexts.
Thus the current releases are being labeled as being from December, 1998,
and January, 1999.
Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 2][32blhxxx.xxx]1499
Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 1][31blhxxx.xxx]1498
Oct 1998 The Republic by Plato, Tr. Benjamin Jowett/see 150[repub11x.xxx]1497
Oct 1998 Massacre at Paris, by Christopher Marlowe [CM #5][msprsxxx.xxx]1496
Oct 1998 The Golf Course Mystery, by Chester K. Steele [glfmsxxx.xxx]1495
Oct 1998 The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume 2[2lotjxxx.xxx]1494
Oct 1998 The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume 1[1lotjxxx.xxx]1493
Oct 1998 The Life of Columbus, [in his own words] by Hale [tloccxxx.xxx]1492
Oct 1998 Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang [Lang #9] [letdaxxx.xxx]1491
Oct 1998 The New McGuffey Fourth Reader[McGuffey Reader #2][4nmcgxxx.xxx]1490
Oct 1998 The New McGuffey First Reader [McGuffey Reader #1][1nmcgxxx.xxx]1489
Oct 1998 True Story of Christopher Columbus, by E.S. Brooks[ttsccxxx.xxx]1488
Oct 1998 Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary the Ring, by GB Shaw[sringxxx.xxx]1487
Oct 1998 The Unseen World and Other Essays, by John Fiske [nswoexxx.xxx]1486
Oct 1998 The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation [crntnxxx.xxx]1485
Oct 1998 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Ibanez [4hrsmxxx.xxx]1484
Oct 1998 Forty Centuries of Ink, by David N. Carvalho [40cnkxxx.xxx]1483
Oct 1998 Modeste Mignon, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac#45][mdmgnxxx.xxx]1482
Oct 1998 A Daughter of Eve, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#44][doevexxx.xxx]1481
Oct 1998 Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes ][tbssdxxx.xxx]1480
Oct 1998 A Vanished Arcadia, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham ][vajipxxx.xxx]1479
Oct 1998 A Parody Outline of History, by D. O. Stewart [#2][apoohxxx.xxx]1478
Oct 1998 The Toys of Peace by H.H. Munro ("Saki") [Saki #3][toypcxxx.xxx]1477
and also
Jan 1999 Tamburlaine the Great PT 2, by Christopher Marlowe[tmbn2xxx.xxx]1589
Jan 1999 A Rogue's Life, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #9][rgslfxxx.xxx]1588
Jan 1999 The Black Robe, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #8][blkrbxxx.xxx]1587
Jan 1999 Man and Wife, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #7][mandwxxx.xxx]1586
Jan 1999 The Wrong Box, by Stevenson & Osbourne [RLS#40][wrngbxxx.xxx]1585
And now from Edupage:
PC PRICES PLUMMET
The price for a home PC, which broke the $1,000 mark just 18 months ago, is
now tumbling below $400 -- well within the reach of the average U.S. family.
Micro Center, an Ohio-based chain of 13 stores, began selling a $399 PC
under the Power Spec label earlier this month, and PrecisionTec LLC, a PC
maker based in California, has introduced its Gazelle machine for the same
price. The low prices don't include computer monitors, which usually start
at about $150. Analysts at ZD Market Intelligence are saying the low prices
will spark a surge of PC-buying among households with incomes of less than
$30,000 -- a segment that so far has been difficult to reach -- and that PC
penetration should reach close to 50% of U.S. households by the end of the
year. (AP 21 Aug 98)
SEC SCOLDS COMPANIES ON Y2K DISCLOSURE
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a statement last week chiding
companies for their lack of candor in disclosing Year 2000 problems to their
stockholders. "While the number of companies disclosing year 2000 issues
has increased dramatically, many companies are not providing the quality of
disclosure that we believe investors expect." The SEC has posted a document
on its Web site, <http://www.sec.gov>, that compares "meaningful Y2K
disclosure" with "boilerplate Y2K disclosure," but an agency task force
recently found that most companies have opted for the latter, just inserting
some meaningless legalese into their financial reports. (Los Angeles Times
3 Aug 98)
THE BLOATWARE DEBATE
A 100-company survey by Standish Group International found that 45% of a
software application's features are never used, 19% rarely used, 16 %
sometime used, 13% often used, and 7% always used; yet, in spite of the
fact that most of an application is seldom used, software gets bigger all
the time. For example, Windows went from 3M lines of code (Windows 3.1) to
14M lines (Windows 95) to 18M (Windows 98). Booze, Allen & Hamilton chief
information officer Roger Walters is one of the people complaining now about
this "bloatware" phenomenon: "My problem is, I'm forced to upgrade all the
time -- not for functionality I want, but for features someone wanted for
me." But industry analyst Jeffrey Tarter defends the software makers by
noting: "I can't think of a single lite version of any product that has
ever succeeded. It may be inelegant and sluglike, but bloatware sells."
(Computerworld 10 Aug 98)
INTEL CATCHES FLAK FOR WEB ADVERTISING TACTICS
In an effort to sell higher-power computer chips, Intel is sponsoring an
"Intel Inside Optimized Content" program that encourages Web sites to use
dense, complicated graphics that slow down a computer's processor when the
pages are downloading from the Internet. An accompanying message tells the
user that a Pentium II microprocessor would speed up the process. Intel
normally reimburses PC makers 50% of their Web-based advertising costs if
the ad sports an "Intel Inside" logo, but ups its contribution to 75% if the
site uses complicated graphics and includes wording that says the page could
be better viewed using a Pentium II processor. "It's a hell of an
incentive," says one Web editor. "PC companies are going to advertise on
sites where they pay only 25% of the costs, as opposed to sites where they
have to pay for half of the ad." But the innovative tactic has raised the
ire of some Web site owners: "What they're asking us to do is turn our
sites into a demonstration of their products," says a senior VP at IDG,
publisher of Computerworld magazine. "We're going to optimize our content
for our readers, not for Intel." (Tampa Tribune 17 Aug 98)
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Subject: Etext #1492 & #1500, Project Gutenberg Newsletter, September, 1998
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:11:14 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Wednesday, August 5, 1998
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
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New sites going up in Brazil and Australia, as below: Africa needed!!
***
We should be posting Etext #1500 in a few weeks, and we would like your
suggestions for possible titles to use for #1500. One suggestion is to
start our new Public Domain Edition of Shakespeare then, with #1500 but
I had #1600 in mind for that, to coincide with the average dates of his
major publications, but that is not at all cast in stone or electrons--
as we have requests for some of the dates surrounding #1600 as follows:
The Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, O.T. Part 2 [2drvbxxx.xxx]1610
The Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, O.T. Part 1 [1drvbxxx.xxx]1609
The Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, N.T. [3drvbxxx.xxx]1582
Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, Both Testaments [0drvbxxx.xxx]1581
So. . .your suggestions would be MOST welcome, on these titles or on
other titles you might have in mind that could possible be done by a
month from now.
***
We also have a number of requests for help from some of our Directors
and other major volunteers.
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Typists needed for unscannable books!!!! Please contact Dianne Bean:
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We have had multiple requests for various editions of Homer.
*
Holmes index. . . . We have a number of Sherlock Holmes stories,
both already done, and In Progress, from various hardback editions
and the Strand Magazine editions. If any of you would like to get
together on a Holmes index, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Ludendorff's Memoirs in German, we need help scanning and proofing.
Mail To: Mike Menzel <menzelm@cadvision.com> [The font is Fraktur]
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From: Siobhan Conway <cs672@greenwich.ac.uk>
Request for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ASAP
We would also love to post one, if we could
find a matching paper edition, pre-1923, to
any that might already be on the Net. . . .
Or we can start from scratch.
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From: Michele Cintolo <cintolom@yahoo.com>
1) "The Innocent Abroad", Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers Publishers
(Author's National Edition set), copyright 1869, 1897 & 1899 by The
American Publishing Company. copyright 1911 by Clara Gabrilowitsch. I
have vol I but need vol II.
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Gabrilowitsch. Have vol I, need vol II.
3)"The Gilded Age", Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers Publishers (Author's
National Edition set), copyright 1873, 1899 by Samuel L. Clemens &
Charles D. Warner, copyright 1901 by Samuel L. Clemens & Susan Lee
Warner, copyright 1915 by Clara Gabrilowitsch & Susan Lee Warner. Have
vol II, need vol I.
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Aug 1998 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit #6[bsshkxxx.xxx]1430
And now 36 Etexts for September. This is the third!! month we have been two
months ahead of schedule, an unprecedented feat for our PG volunteers in the
summertime, when we usually fall behind schedule a bit. My Congratulations!
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
Sep 1998 Chance, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #22][chancxxx.xxx]1476
Sep 1998 Gaudissart II, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #43][2gdsrxxx.xxx]1475
Sep 1998 The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac #42[1gdsrxxx.xxx]1474
Sep 1998 The Absentee, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #2][bsntexxx.xxx]1473
Sep 1998 In a German Pension, by Katherine Mansfield[KM #2][inagpxxx.xxx]1472
Sep 1998 New Poems, by Francis Thompson[Francis Thompson#2][npbftxxx.xxx]1471
Sep 1998 Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan, by Keene [tfmehxxx.xxx]1470
Sep 1998 Poems, by Francis Thompson [pmbftxxx.xxx]1469
Sep 1998 History of England, James II> Vol. 1, Macaulay[#2][1hoejxxx.xxx]1468
Sep 1998 Some Christmas Stories, by Charles Dickens[CD #50][cdscsxxx.xxx]1467
Sep 1998 Creatures That Once Were Men, by Maxim Gorky [#1a][crmenxxa.xxx]1466
Sep 1998 Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens [#49][wrkgmxxx.xxx]1465
Sep 1998 Contributions to: All The Year Round, Dickens #48[allyrxxx.xxx]1464
Sep 1998 The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, by Gissing [ppohrxxx.xxx]1463
Sep 1998 Some Roundabout Papers, by Thackeray[Thackeray #3][rndbtxxx.xxx]1462
Sep 1998 A Legend of Montrose, by Walter Scott [W Scott #5][mntrsxxx.xxx]1461
Sep 1998 The Black Dwarf, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #4][bdwrfxxx.xxx]1460
Sep 1998 Prufrock and Other Observations, by T. S. Eliot #2[prfrkxxx.xxx]1459
Sep 1998 Dream Life and Real Life, by Olive Schreiner [#5][dlarlxxx.xxx]1458
Sep 1998 Mistress Wilding, by Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini #1][wldngxxx.xxx]1457
Sep 1998 An Episode Under the Terror, by Balzac[Balzac #41][aeuttxxx.xxx]1456
Sep 1998 The Hated Son, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #40][htdsnxxx.xxx]1455
Sep 1998 Maitre Cornelius, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #39][crnlsxxx.xxx]1454
Sep 1998 The Alkahest, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #38][lkhstxxx.xxx]1453
Sep 1998 Native Life in South Africa, by Sol Plaatje [nlisaxxx.xxx]1452
Sep 1998 The Art of Lawn Tennis, by William T. Tilden, 2D [tenisxxx.xxx]1451
Sep 1998 Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter[Eleanor Porter #4][plynaxxx.xxx]1450
Sep 1998 The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London[London #49][vlymnxxx.xxx]1449
Sep 1998 Heidi, by Johanna Spyri [The Popular Kid's Story][heidixxx.xxx]1448
Sep 1998 The Illustrious Prince, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 3[iprncxxx.xxx]1447
Sep 1998 Perfect Behavior, by Donald Ogden Stewart [satire][pbhvrxxx.xxx]1446
Sep 1998 Aeroplanes, by J. S. Zerbe [aerozxxx.xxx]1445
Sep 1998 The Voice of the City, by O Henry [O Henry #1][vcctyxxx.xxx]1444
Sep 1998 Two Poets, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #37][2poetxxx.xxx]1443
Sep 1998 Kingdom of the Blind, by E. Phillips Oppenheim #2[kblndxxx.xxx]1442
Sep 1998 The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner #4[aafrmxxx.xxx]1441
and some from October already:
We will be posting at least two Etexts on or by Columbus,
as the 12th October Etext and as Etext #1492. . . .
Oct 1998 Columbus! [ xxx.xxx]1492
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1491
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1490
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1489
Oct 1998 Columbus! [ xxx.xxx]1488
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1487
Oct 1998 The Unseen World and Other Essays, by John Fiske [nswoexxx.xxx]1486
Oct 1998 The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation [crntnxxx.xxx]1485
Oct 1998 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Ibanez [4hrsmxxx.xxx]1484
Oct 1998 Forty Centuries of Ink, by David N. Carvalho [40cnkxxx.xxx]1483
Oct 1998 Modeste Mignon, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac#45][mdmgnxxx.xxx]1482
Oct 1998 A Daughter of Eve, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#44][doevexxx.xxx]1481
Oct 1998 Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes ][tbssdxxx.xxx]1480
Oct 1998 A Vanished Arcadia, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham ][vajipxxx.xxx]1479
Oct 1998 A Parody Outline of History, by D. O. Stewart [#2][apoohxxx.xxx]1478
Oct 1998 The Toys of Peace by H.H. Munro ("Saki") [Saki #3][toypcxxx.xxx]1477
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>From Edupage:
INFORMATION AGE HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
Asked about the impact of computers and the Internet on society, Vanderbilt
University management professor Donna Hoffman says: "Will we really
transform society through the use of computers and the Internet? Well, the
jury is still out. I certainly think the potential is there, but it will be
realized only if we can get access in the hands of everyone. Otherwise, we
are not likely to see revolutionary changes. And we will still have the
schisms and chasms in society where there will be sectors of society in
which people are able to partake of the wonderful riches online, and at the
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be much evidence of the transforming powers found in creating new sources of
value until we have people online who we never thought would come online.
If we're serious about change, we need to be thinking of getting entire
countries -- the developing countries and societies -- online. (Exec Sum 98)
MIT'S MANAGEMENT SCHOOL SAYS NO MORE PAPER APPLICATIONS
MIT's Sloan School of Management says it will no longer accept paper
applications, opting instead for a fully electronic application process.
School officials say the move will save thousands of dollars in processing,
printing and postage costs, plus hundreds of hours of staff time. The
school will, however, stick with snail-mail for the back end of the process
-- acceptance and rejection letters will be shipped via the U.S. Postal
Service. (Investor's Business Daily 4 Aug 98)
FCC TO HOLD HEARINGS ON DISPARITIES IN TECHNOLOGY ACCESS
The Federal Communications Commission will hold hearings this fall to try to
determine why minority groups are less likely to have telephone service or
own a computer than white families. A U.S. Commerce Department reports
indicates that 96% of white households have basic phone service, compared to
about 86% of black households and Hispanic households; similarly about 41%
of white families own a computer, compared to about 19% of black and
Hispanic families. FCC chairman Bill Kennard says, "Does this gap in access
to technology matter? You bet it does. How can you look for a job without
a phone? How can you demonstrate that you have the skills to compete if you
don't know which side of a diskette goes in first?" (AP 3 Aug 98)
[More on the same story, with a little better statistics: I counted as one]
STUDY SHOWS WIDENING GAP IN COMPUTER OWNERSHIP
A new study by the U.S. Commerce Department shows that PC ownership among
all Americans grew by 52% between 1994 and 1997, with a penetration of 36.6%
of U.S. households. But although penetration among blacks and Hispanics
grew faster than the overall rate, the disparity between them and white
households actually widened during that period. At the end of 1997, 40.8%
of non-Hispanic white households owned a PC, compared to 19.4% of Hispanic
and 19.3% of African-American households, a gap of 21.5%. In 1994, the
Commerce Department reported a gap of 16.8%. The study also found that
whites were much more likely to subscribe to an online service than either
blacks or Hispanics. "The study exposes a growing problem in our economy,
one that must be taken seriously: too many Americans are not able to take
part in the growing digital economy," says Commerce Secretary William Daley.
"The growing trend of information 'haves' and 'have-nots' is alarming."
(Miami Herald 31 Jul 98)
RIOTS FOLLOW BRAZIL'S SALE OF NATIONAL PHONE SYSTEM
Brazil's national phone company Telebras has been sold for almost $19
billion in the largest privatization deal in Latin American history -- a
deal dominated by Spain's Telefonica, Portugal's Telecom, and the U.S.
company MCI. Police used tear gas, batons, and a water cannon to control
thousands of angry demonstrators fearful that foreign owners of phone
services will ignore the needs of the Brazilian poor. (Washington Post 30
Jul 98)
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Aug 1998 Woman and Labour, by Olive Schreiner [Olive's #3][wmlbrxxx.xxx]1440
Aug 1998 Dreams, by Olive Schreiner [Olive Schreiner #2][drmosxxx.xxx]1439
Aug 1998 No Name, by Wilkie Collins [#6 by Wilkie Collins][nnamexxx.xxx]1438
Aug 1998 Juana by Honore de Balzac[#36 by Honore de Balzac][juanaxxx.xxx]1437
Aug 1998 A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Father Jerome Lobo [vygabxxx.xxx]1436
Aug 1998 Miscellaneous Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #47][mspcdxxx.xxx]1435
Aug 1998 Essays, by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #7][esyamxxx.xxx]1434
Aug 1998 The Red Inn, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #35][rdinnxxx.xxx]1433
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Aug 1998 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit #6[bstshxxx.xxx]1430
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Aug 1998 La Grenadiere, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #33][grndrxxx.xxx]1428
Aug 1998 A Drama on the Seashore, by Balzac [de Balzac #32][seshrxxx.xxx]1427
Aug 1998 The Recruit, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #31][recrtxxx.xxx]1426
Aug 1998 El Verdugo, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #30][vrdugxxx.xxx]1425
Aug 1998 Castle Rackrent, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #1][rkrntxxx.xxx]1424
Aug 1998 No Thoroughfare, by Dickens [#47] & Collins [#5] [nothoxxx.xxx]1423
Aug 1998 Going into Society, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#46][gisocxxx.xxx]1422
Aug 1998 Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy by Charles Dickens [CD #45][mlrlgxxx.xxx]1421
Aug 1998 London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes [lndwdxxx.xxx]1420
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:47:20 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for June, 1998
We have now completed 14% of our 10,000 Etext goal. . .
and selected Great Expectations as #1400, Anna Karenina
as #1399, and Tarzan the Untamed as #1401, hopefully we
will always have something for everyone to read.
We lost touch with our volunteer at the Library of Congress,
if anyone can put us in touch with a friend there, thanks!!!
Dianne Bean will away from her email until June 22; please hold your mail
til then. If you need to send a completed etext, send it to Michael Hart.
Geof Pawlicki has purchased a set of O Henry, as below. If you would
like any of these to work on and/or to keep, all you have to do is to
pay the shipping. [geof@netcom.com]
These are mostly collections titled after one story in the collection.
The Whirligigs
Cabbages and Kings
The Trimmed Lamp
Sixes and Sevens
Options
Rolling Stones
Strictly Business
Heart of the West
The Voice of the City
The Four Million
Roads of Destiny
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Here are the 36 July Etexts for 1998. The Federalist Papers tops the list to
commemorate the 27th Anniversary of the first Project Gutenberg Etext, the US
Declaration of Independence. Since we are currently two months ahead of this
year's schedule, we are posting most of these books in June, so they would be
currently arriving at the best time for people to include them in some of the
4th of July celebrations, and also Bastille Day. Therefore the month of June
will primarily be filled with "History of Democracy" Etexts, as was our first
10 years at Project Gutenberg. We hope you will find them enlightening.
These Etexts are from http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm
Our Thanks to The Constitution Society for Providing This Etext!
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Jul 1998 The Federalist Papers, by Hamilton, Jay & Madison [federxxx.xxx]1404
Jul 1998 A Start in Life, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #25][stlifxxx.xxx]1403
Jul 1998 Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley [wtbbgxxx.xxx]1402
Jul 1998 Tarzan the Untamed, by Edgar Rice Burroughs[TARZ7][tarz7xxx.xxx]1401
Jul 1998 Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#38][grexpxxx.xxx]1400
Jul 1998 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Tolstoy #5][nkrnnxxx.xxx]1399
Jul 1998 Dore Lectures on Mental Science, by Thomas Troward[dorelxxx.xxx]1398
Jul 1998 The Ruins by C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney[ruinsxxx.xxx]1397
Jul 1998 Rienzi, last of the Roman Tribunes, by E. B.Lytton[rienzxxx.xxx]1396
Jul 1998 Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang [Lang #8] [ltlitxxx.xxx]1395
Jul 1998 The Holly-Tree, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #37] [hlytrxxx.xxx]1394
Jul 1998 Amours de Voyage, by Arthur Hugh Clough [mrvygxxx.xxx]1393
Jul 1998 The Seven Poor Travellers, by Charles Dickens[#36][svprtxxx.xxx]1392
Jul 1998 Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate D. Wiggin[#7][pnliexxx.xxx]1391
Jul 1998 The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister [jmyjnxxx.xxx]1390
Jul 1998 Gobseck, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #24][gbsekxxx.xxx]1389
Jul 1998 Padre Ignacio, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #7] [igncoxxx.xxx]1388
Jul 1998 Mother, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #6] [mothrxxx.xxx]1387
Jul 1998 Lady Baltimore, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #5] [lbaltxxx.xxx]1386
Jul 1998 Lin McLean, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #4] [lmclnxxx.xxx]1385
Jul 1998 The Ayrshire Legatees, by John Galt [John Galt #3][ayrlgxxx.xxx]1384
Jul 1998 Poems by George Meredith - Volume 3 [Meredith #5] [pmgm3xxx.xxx]1383
Jul 1998 Poems by George Meredith - Volume 2 [Meredith #4] [pmgm2xxx.xxx]1382
Jul 1998 Poems by George Meredith - Volume 1 [Meredith #3] [pmgm1xxx.xxx]1381
Jul 1998 The Two Brothers, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #23][brthrxxx.xxx]1380
Jul 1998 A Straight Deal, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #3] [strdlxxx.xxx]1379
Jul 1998 The Land of Footprints, by Stewart Edward White #3[fprntxxx.xxx]1378
Jul 1998 The Talisman, by Walter Scott[Sir Walter Scott #3][tlsmnxxx.xxx]1377
Jul 1998 The Little White Bird, by J.M. Barrie [Barrie #4][tlwbdxxx.xxx]1376
Jul 1998 New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin 7[tncorxxx.xxx]1375
Jul 1998 Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#22][vndtaxxx.xxx]1374
Jul 1998 Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #21][sowmnxxx.xxx]1373
Jul 1998 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Irving #4[taocbxxx.xxx]1372
Jul 1998 Astoria, by Washinton Irving[Washington Irving #3][striaxxx.xxx]1371
Jul 1998 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II [2aadwxxx.xxx[1370
Jul 1998 Paz, by Honore de Balzac, #20 by Honore de Balzac [pzhdbxxx.xxx]1369
and here are the first 8 we have scheduled for August:
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Aug 1998 Masterman Ready, by Captain Marryat [Marryat #1][mmrdyxxx.xxx]1412
Aug 1998 Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #28][dmspcxxx.xxx]1411
Aug 1998 The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac [#27][lunacxxx.xxx]1410
Aug 1998 The Soul of the Far East, by Percival Lowell [#1][sofrexxx.xxx]1409
4
Aug 1998 The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White [tnhosxxx.xxx]1408
Aug 1998 A Message From the Sea by Charles Dickens [CD #39][amftsxxx.xxx]1407
Aug 1998 Perils of Certain English Prisoners by Dickens #38[pocepxxx.xxx]1406
Aug 1998 The Collection of Antiquities, by Balzac [HDB #26][clntqxxx.xxx]1405
>From Edupage:
SENATE PASSES ONLINE COPYRIGHT EXTENSION
The Senate unanimously approved the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which
offers the same protection to online computer software, music, movies and
written works that they enjoy in more tangible form. In a key provision,
the legislation exempts libraries and online services from prosecution for
copyright violations committed by patrons and customers. Individuals who
violate copyrights for financial gain will be liable for $1 million in fines
and up to 10 years in prison. (Wall Street Journal 15 May 98)
INTERNET GROWTH
A study by the U.S. Commerce Department ( http://ecommerce.gov/ ) says that
traffic on the Internet is doubling every hundred days and predicts that
electronic commerce will grow to $300 billion a year by 2002. (USA Today 16
Apr 96) [So. . .anyone who says they can make the Internet 100 time faster,
will have to deal with the fact that traffice with double as fast as they do
any doubling of the speed. Don't expect any real speedups. Michael Hart]
[Note Well: This means traffice is multiplying by 10 every year. . . .
When you listen to those people promising to make the Internet run 100
time faster in 10 years, ask them if the Internet won't be slowing down
because they aren't proposing increasing the speed as fast as traffic.
None of them are saying they could possibly make the Internet handle
100 times more traffic every year. . . . This is smoke and mirrors.
ECONOMIST PREDICTS Y2K PROBLEM WILL CAUSE RECESSION
In an op-ed piece, Edward Yardeni, chief economist and managing director of
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell says that problems arising from the Year 2000
computer glitch could cause a major recession, as businesses fail and
government agencies become incapable of delivering basic services, including
tax collection, welfare payments, national defense and air traffic control:
"The likely recession could be at least as bad as the one during 1973-74,
which was caused mostly by a disruption in the supply of oil. Information,
stored and manipulated by computers, is as vital as oil for running modern
economies. If information is harder to obtain, markets will allocate and
use resources inefficiently. Market participants will be forced to spend
more time and money obtaining information that was previously available at
little or no cost... Furthermore, a 2000 recession is bound to be
deflationary. The U.S. may experience a $1 trillion drop in nominal GDP and
a $1 trillion loss in stock market capitalization." (Wall Street Journal 4
May 98) [and you heard it here first, years ago. . .mh]
NEW DOS IS YEAR 2000-COMPLIANT
IBM has launched a new PC DOS 2000 that automatically corrects the two-digit
dates that threaten to befuddle older computer systems, and also supports
the European Monetary Union's new euro currency symbol -- a management
problem that could prove even more troublesome for European businesses than
the Y2K problem. According to recent research, there are between 120
million and 150 million people who still use DOS on their desktop machines.
"We believe about half of those are business users," says a manager at IBM's
Network Computing Software division. That figure doesn't include users of
Microsoft Windows 3.1, which includes DOS as a component. (InternetWeek 27
May 98)
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Subject: May Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: Michael Hart <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 10:00:06 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for May, 1998
For the first time in years we are two months ahead of schedule,
having completed the first releases of all the June Etexts. The
list is appended below, with the first 6 July Etexts, since this
is being prepared on May 6th.
My thanks to all who have helped us get this far!
I would also like to thank Peter Graham for pointing out that in
the last Newsletter there may have been some errors. . .I forgot
to put in how to send us donations. . .so that is appended below
the list of the 43 Etexts recently completed.
We have a new site at:
ftp://ftp.muc.muohio.edu/pub/gutenberg
This site will also soon be accessible via the Web.
Requested:
From: Mike Menzel <menzelm@cadvision.com>
Subject: Ludendorff's War Memoirs
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Here is the index of the 42 new Etexts:
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
This file has just been added retroactively
Feb 1998 North American Species of Cactus, by John Coulter [nasocxxx.xxx]1221
Jul 1998 Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#22][vndtaxxx.xxx]1374
Jul 1998 Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #21][sowmnxxx.xxx]1373
Jul 1998 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Irving #4[taocbxxx.xxx]1372
Jul 1998 Astoria, by Washinton Irving[Washington Irving #3][striaxxx.xxx]1371
Jul 1998 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II [2aadwxxx.xxx[1370
Jul 1998 Paz, by Honore de Balzac, #20 by Honore de Balzac [pzhdbxxx.xxx]1369
Jun 1998 When the World Shook, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #3][wtwshxxx.xxx]1368
Jun 1998 Findelkind, by Louise de la Ramee ["Ouida"] [fndkdxxx.xxx]1367
Jun 1998 The Cloister and the Hearth, by Charles Reade [chrthxxx.xxx]1366
Jun 1998 The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [cphwlxxx.xxx]1365
Jun 1998 Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive, by Appleton[25tomxxx.xxx]1364
Jun 1998 Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters, Victor Appleton[24tomxxx.xxx]1363
Jun 1998 Tom Swift And His Undersea Search, Victor Appleton[23tomxxx.xxx]1362
Jun 1998 Tom Swift And His Giant Cannon, by Victor Appleton[16tomxxx.xxx]1361
Jun 1998 Historical Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley[hstlexxx.xxx]1360
Jun 1998 Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield[bhnatxxx.xxx]1359
Jun 1998 Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson [Tennyson #3][enchrxxx.xxx]1358
Jun 1998 Madame Firmiani, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#19][frmnixxx.xxx]1357
Jun 1998 The Cruise of the Cachalot, by Frank T. Bullen [cchltxxx.xxx]1356
Jun 1998 The Underground City by Jules Verne[Jules Verne#7][ucityxxx.xxx]1355
Jun 1998 Chronicles of Avonlea, by Lucy Maud Montgomery #6][avnlexxx.xxx]1354
Jun 1998 Off on a Comet, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #7][cometxxx.xxx]1353
Jun 1998 An Old Maid, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #18][omaidxxx.xxx]1352
Jun 1998 Chignecto Isthmus; First Settlers, Howard Trueman [chgntxxx.xxx]1351
Jun 1998 The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #17][ctrdrxxx.xxx]1350
Jun 1998 Russia, by Donald Mackenzie Wallace [rsdmwxxx.xxx]1349
Jun 1998 A Master's Degree, by Margaret Hill McCarter [amsdgxxx.xxx]1348
Jun 1998 A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson, by Edouard le Roy[anphbxxx.xxx]1347
Jun 1998 Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx [mar18xxx.xxx]1346
Jun 1998 The Vicar of Tours, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#16][vcrtrxxx.xxx]1345
Jun 1998 Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan, Balzac [#15][sdpdcxxx.xxx]1344
Jun 1998 Bureaucracy, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #14][brcrcxxx.xxx]1343
Jun 1998 Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen [Austen #8][pandpxxx.xxx]1342
Jun 1998 The Altruist in Politics, by Benjamin Cardozo [ltpltxxx.xxx]1341
Jun 1998 Salome, by Oscar Wilde [Accents] [Oscar Wilde #21]salmexxh.xxx]1340
Not done!
Jun 1998 Salome, by Oscar Wilde[No Accents][Oscar Wilde #21]salmexxx.xxx]1339
Jun 1998 Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #20]slpwlxxx.xxx]1338
Jun 1998 Shelley, by Sydney Waterlow [Percy Bysshe Shelley][wshlyxxx.xxx]1337
Jun 1998 Shelley, by Francis Thompson[Percy Bysshe Shelley][tshlyxxx.xxx]1336
Jun 1998 The Ancien Regime, by Charles Kingsley[Kingsley#5][anrgmxxx.xxx]1335
Jun 1998 Paul Kelver by Jerome K. Jerome [JeromeKJerome#13][pklvrxxx.xxx]1334
Jun 1998 R F Murray: His Poems with a Memoir by Andrew Lang[rfmurxxx.xxx]1333
And since you will probably receive this around the 6th, here are 6 more. . .
Jul 1998 Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#22][vndtaxxx.xxx]1374
Jul 1998 Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #21][sowmnxxx.xxx]1373
Jul 1998 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Irving #4[taocbxxx.xxx]1372
Jul 1998 Astoria, by Washinton Irving[Washington Irving #3][striaxxx.xxx]1371
Jul 1998 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II [2aadwxxx.xxx[1370
Jul 1998 Paz, by Honore de Balzac, #20 by Honore de Balzac [pzhdbxxx.xxx]1369
And a few clippings from Edupage:
13 STATES TO FILE ANTITRUST SUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT
Thirteen states are preparing to file a joint antitrust action against
Microsoft to prevent the company from shipping its new Windows 98 operating
system software. The attorneys general said they would rather have
coordinated a federal-state action against Microsoft, but that they were
concerned over the slower time frame within which federal government
operates. Microsoft plans to begin shipping Windows 98 to computer makers
next month and to release it to the general public in June, and the states
felt taking any action after the PC makers began installing it on their
machines would be significantly more complicated. Microsoft's VP for law
and corporate affairs says: "This case involves a fundamental principle for
us, the freedom of high-technology companies to continue to innovate on
behalf of our customers. Part of innovation has to be integration. We are
going to continue to integrate products." (New York Times 30 Apr 98)
DON'T BLOCK WINDOWS 98, SAY VENDORS
Twenty-six computer industry executives, including the chairmen of Intel
Corp., Micron Electronics, Dell Computer, Compaq Computer and
Hewlett-Packard, have signed a joint letter urging the Department of Justice
not to block the planned release of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system.
"Interfering with the release of Windows 98 would drag down the entire
industry's efforts to deliver value to customers and returns to
shareholders," said the letter. The executives were careful to point out
that they weren't expressing "any opinion on the merits of the investigation
of Microsoft." The upgrade is expected to be shipped to computer makers in
mid-May and hit retail shelves on June 25. "The bottom line is, no computer
manufacturer can afford to harm their relationship with Microsoft," says the
president of the Software Publishers Association. "When Microsoft calls and
asks them to write a letter to Justice, they're hard-pressed not to." (Los
Angeles Times 1 May 98)
U S WEST TO OFFER TV, INTERNET ACCESS OVER PHONE LINES
For a cost "comparable" to the monthly fees charged by Cox Communications
(the primary cable company in Phoenix), U S West plans to offer its Phoenix
customers a video and data services package via "variable digital subscriber
lines," or VDSL. U S West says its service will include some 120 TV
channels and Internet access. In the past year, cable companies have begun
to offer Internet access as part of their monthly service, and an analyst
with International Data says, "If you're a phone company, you're going to
want to roll out a package of services that will blunt the attack from the
cable companies, which are trying to take away phone customers." (Wall
Street Journal 20 Apr 98)
SCIENTISTS DEMO INTERNET EXPRESS LANE
Scientists at two national laboratories demonstrated a new "differentiated
service" technology that gives certain types of electronic data higher
priority for transmission over the Internet. In the demo, two
streaming-video signals were sent -- one with a high-priority mark and one
without -- over an especially busy Internet route. The video marked
high-priority arrived at a speed of eight frames per second, versus one
frame per second for the unmarked video. Within a year, it may be possible
for research labs and universities that need more dependable Internet
connections to pay a higher cost for prioritized delivery. (Chronicle of
Higher Education 1 May 98)
[This is something we have written about before. . .it basically is like
a railroad system in which efficiently sendable text files are held over
to sidings to wait for movies and sound files to pass on express lanes--
the idea is that it is more important to move huge audio/video files for
entertainment than to move books for education. Huh?? Michael S. Hart]
This is my own personal comment, not associated with Edupage. . . . mh
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This is the Project Gutenberg Volunteers' Newsletter for April
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