pgmonthly_2008_09_16-PGCA.txt
The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for September 16, 2008
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HERE'S THE NEWS FROM PG CANADA FOR AUGUST.
We published a total of 12 ebooks during the month: we have now published a
cumulative total of 164 ebooks.
The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always gives the
details of new releases for the most recent three months.
LANGUAGES:
- 7 titles were in English
- 5 were in French
GENRES
- 6 of the books were novels
- 3 were children's books
- 2 were collections of short stories and novellas
- 1 was non-fiction: a collection of essays
One of PG Canada's objectives is to have a strong collection of ebooks in
French. We were delighted that this month almost half of the new titles we
offered are in French!
Only one of our books this month was by a Canadian, but it is a very special
ebook. Pamphile Le May's "Contes Vrais" included not only Le May's celebrated
short stories, but includes illustrations by no fewer than twelve famous
Quebec artists of his period! It is in effect a gallery of Quebec's artists
of the time.
We published two new titles in our series of novels by English novelist Sheila
Kaye-Smith (1887-1956), and three new titles in our series of novels by Henry
Gréville (1842-1902).
Authors and illustrators new to PGC this month included:
Lee, Vernon [Paget, Violet] (1856-1935) [English novelist, essayist, and poet]
Mann, Thomas (1875-1955) [Romancier allemand] Weir, Harrison William (1824-
1906) [English author and illustrator]
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Thanks as ever for your support!
Mark
From: Mark Akrigg [morrigg@sympatico.ca]
Sent: 12 October 2008 21:14
To: Michael S. Hart
Cc: john@gutenberg.us; gbnewby@pglaf.org; editor@gutenbergnews.org
Subject: September news from PG Canada
Dear Michael:
Here's the news from PG Canada for September.
We published a total of 13 ebooks during the month: we have now published a
cumulative total of 177 ebooks.
The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always gives the
details of new releases for the most recent three months.
LANGUAGES:
- 5 titles were in English
- 8 were in French
GENRES
- 7 of the books were novels (the 7 ebooks represented 5 novels, since we
published Henry Gréville's "Les Koumiassine" in two parts, and followed the
same course with "Le moulin Frappier").
- 1 was a children's book
- 1 was a collection of poems
- 1 was an issue of a literary magazine
- 3 were non-fiction: a collection of essays, a book of history, and a
biography
One of PG Canada's objectives is to have a strong collection of ebooks in
French. We were delighted that this month an actual majority of the new
titles we offered are in French!
Five of this month's ebooks were by Canadians.
One of the highlights of the month was the completion of our collection of
major works by the eminent novelist, poet, dramatist, and translator Pamphile
Le May (1837-1918): we now offer no fewer than 18 of his works.
We published four novels in our continuing series of novels by Henry Gréville
(1842-1902).
Authors and illustrators new to PGC this month included:
Charlesworth, Hector Willoughby (1872-1945) [Canadian journalist and essayist]
Garneau, François-Xavier (1809-1866) [Historien et poète canadien] Graham,
George Rex (1813-1894) [Publisher]
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Thanks as ever for your support!
Mark
So here we are, just over a week until Waterstones start shipping out those lovely new Sony Reader PRS-505’s to all us UK residents!
This is going to be the first E-Ink reader from one of the big boys to enter the UK market . The Sony Reader has been getting substantial coverage in mainstream media of late, so it will be interesting to see what the take up will be. If forums such as MobileRead are anything to go by then there will be quite a demand.
Don’t know what the Sony Reader Digital Book (PRS-505) is?
The Sony Reader is an electronic book reader that uses an E-Ink screen to give a paper like reading experience. The Reader can hold around 160 books in its 250MB internal memory, but by using the two memory slots (10GB) you could potentially hold 10,000 books. If you don’t think you could fill this then remember that the Gutenberg.org archives have over 20,000 English language books to download for free!!
Michael Hart has sent out his monthly newsletter for August 2008 and during this last month there have been a few nice milestones from the various PG projects.
First up, Greg Newby has provided us with an update on the top languages found at gutenberg.org. Currently there are over 100 languages available in the archives making a total of 26,272 eBook titles!
The top languages being;
22,432 - English (EN)
1,217 - French (FR)
540 - German (DE)
456 - Finnish (FI)
349 - Dutch (NL)
320 - Chinese (ZH)
250 - Portuguese (PT)
197 - Spanish (ES)
153 - Italian (IT)