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**The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 15, 2003*
******eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Over 31 Years******
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We ended up with one less than we thought, so last week's total was 26 and
the grand total was 6,769. Also reported 105 new eBooks, there were 115 !
My apologies for the errors, it was a challenge just doing the Newsletter.
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Over Our 31 1/2 Year History, We Have Now Averaged About 200 Ebooks/Year--
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Current Progress:
75 New eBooks This Week
26 New eBooks Last Week
101 New eBooks This Month [Jan]
Recent Progress:
43 New This Week of 2002
200 New This Month of 2002
203 Average Per Month in 2002
103 Average Per Month in 2001
Yearly Totals:
101 New eBooks in 2003
2441 New eBooks in 2002
1240 New eBooks in 2001
Grand Totals:
2,468 New eBooks In The Last 12 Months
4,376 eBooks This Time Last Year
6,844 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks
151 eBooks From Project Gutenberg of Australia
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RESERVED count: 39
Oct 2004 Story Hour Readers Book Three, by Coe & Christie [sthr3xxx.xxx]6685
[Full author: Ida Coe and Alice J. Christie]
[HTML also posted in sthr310h.htm/.zip]
Oct 2004 Uneasy Money, by P.G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse#9][nsmnyxxx.xxx]6684
Oct 2004 The Little Nugget, by P.G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse#8][ltnggxxx.xxx]6683
Oct 2004 Nets to Catch the Wind, by Elinor Wylie [ntctwxxx.xxx]6682
Oct 2004 Sganarelle, by Moliere [Moliere#14][?sgnlxxx.xxx]6681
Oct 2004 The Bores, by Moliere [Moliere#13][?thbrxxx.xxx]6680
Oct 2004 The Old Stone House, by Anne March [tldshxxx.xxx]6679
Oct 2004 Nonsenseorship, by G. G. Putnam [nsnssxxx.xxx]6678
Oct 2004 Seventy-Five Receipts, by Miss Leslie [svfvrxxx.xxx]6677
[Full title: Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats]
Oct 2004 Rosy, by Mrs. Molesworth [rsymlxxx.xxx]6676
Oct 2004 The Loss of the SS. Titanic, by Lawrence Beesley [lsttnxxx.xxx]6675
Oct 2004 Umbrellas and their History, by William Sangster [mbrllxxx.xxx]6674
Oct 2004 Young Knights of the Empire,by Robert Baden-Powell[ynkgtxxx.xxx]6673
[Full author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell]
Oct 2004 The Caesars, by Thomas de Quincey [#12][?csrsxxx.xxx]6672
Oct 2004 Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2,by Henry Craik[dwclrxxx.xxx]6671
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Statistical Review
With 6,844 eBooks online as of January 15, 2003 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.46 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000
[One Trillion Dollars] in books.
This "cost" is down from about $2.29 when we had 4376 eBooks A Year Ago
Can you imagine 6,000 books each costing $.83 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 6,000 books each costing 1/3 less a year later???
***Headline News***
[You might have heard this here first, only we weren't quite as tough
on Mr. Case as was the New York Times, though he may have deserved it.]
The VCR is dead (or dying), long live the DVD (at least for a little while,
for crying out loud). Stores like Circuit City and Barnes & Noble's either
are sharply reducing their inventories of VHS tapes or no longer carrying
them at all. (The video category of Best Buy's offerings is already more
than 80% DVD.) And the storyline is the same out in Hollywood: MGM
Entertainment's VHS library now numbers only 200 films (compared to 1,800
at one previous point), and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is phasing
out certain VHS catalog titles once they are released on DVD. Industry
analyst Tom Adams says, "The issue was always will VHS have the stink of
death of the eight-track tape. By now it's pretty clear that it will."
(USA Today 14 Jan 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-13-vcr_x.htm
IBM has launched a new program to rent out processing power on its
supercomputers, and has signed up Petroleum Geo-Services, a petrochemical
company, as its first customer. PGS has about 1,000 of its own
dual-processor Linux computers clustered into a single computing resource,
but it's renting another 400 from Big Blue, says a company spokesman. The
new service reflects IBM's push toward "utility computing," which enables
companies with fluctuating needs for computing power to pay for it as they
use it. An e-commerce operation, for instance, may need to beef up its
processing power during the busy holiday shopping season, but that demand
drops off in January. IBM also expects to find many of its customers in the
petrochemical and life sciences industries. (CNet News.com 8 Jan 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-979780.html?tag=fd_top
>From Edupage
[Could this also be due to backlash from the "real" .net community?"]
Less than six months after Microsoft announced that its next major
operating system would be called "Windows .NET Server 2003," the
company has decided to call the product simply "Windows Server 2003."
The change is part of Microsoft's revised approach to marketing its
NET technology, which is designed to support Web services. After
several months of attaching the .NET tag to most of its products,
Microsoft now will simply refer to those products as ".NET connected,"
indicated with a logo. Ted Schadler of Forrester Research said
Microsoft's strategy should never have been to lump everything under
the .NET umbrella, which many consumers did not understand and found
mysterious. The .NET technology included in Microsoft's products will
not change, but the ".NET connected" logo can be applied to independent
software vendors' products based on the technology, according to an
official from Microsoft.
Wall Street Journal, 10 January 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1042210597413487704,00.html
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