Book People Archive

Re: Internet piracy spreads from music to books


Richard Seltzer said:

> > Good grief! Two and a half pounds for an electronic copy of a public domain
> > book! At those rates, Project Gutenberg would be a multi-billion-dollar
> > business...

Actually, we should be just passing the trillion dollar or pound mark,
at 2.50 per eText. . . .

If our eTexts just reach 1-2% of the population.

There are over 6 billion people now, so 1.6x% is 100 million people.

We are coming up on our 4,000th Project Gutenberg title in 45 days
or so. . .we should pass 3,850 today and are progressing at about
100 eTexts per month. . . .

So. . .4,000 x 100,000,000 x 2.50  =  1,000,000,000,000 [1 trillion]


:-)



Thanks!

So nice to hear from you!


Michael S. Hart
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Project Gutenberg
"Ask Dr. Internet"
Executive Director
Internet User ~#100