[gweekly] Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
- From: "Mike Cook" <editor@[redacted]>
- Subject: [gweekly] Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:44:39 -0500
[Book People moderator: This is the first part of Mike Cook's Project
Gutenberg newsletter for this week. As you'll see below, he's
volunteered to editing the weekly newsletters for the next while.
He's combined the parts into one message, and moved some of the recurring
material that used to appear in Part 1 onto a website.
This week, I've snipped the new books listing part, since you already
saw it in a previous post. I'm sure Mike would be happy to hear
your feedback on the new format. - JMO]
pgweekly_2006_11_29.txt
The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, November 29, 2006
****eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971****
Introduction
------------
Dear Subscribers,
Some weeks back I emailed Michael Hart with a proposal for a new and
different
approach to the weekly PG newsletter. I am happy to say that Michael and
Greg [Newby] have agreed for me to try out this new approach.
Most, if not all the information previously included will still be
available,
although it will now be in a different format.
I have rewritten the newsletter to focus more on the core statistical
information (totals, %, averages, etc) from the various PG areas, including
the Australian, European and PGCC figures. The Updates/Corrections/New eBook
listings will also be included.
For all the other information - wanted adverts, donation information and
news - I have created the PG-News website, http://www.pg-news.org
If you have any questions or thoughts on these changes please email:
editor_AT_pg-news.org
Kind Regards,
Mike Cook
Project Gutenberg News Website
------------------------------
For more statistical information and PG related news please visit the
Project Gutenberg Newsletter website:
http://www.pg-news.org
WANTED ADS
----------
Project Gutenberg is looking for Volunteers. To learn how you can help
please visit our Volunteers Wanted! section at:
http://www.pg-news.org
CURRENT HEADLINES:
* Our Distributed Proof Readers Need...
* Project Gutenberg Is Seeking Legal Beagles
* Graphics needed for PG website and publicity materials
* Turn eBooks into MP3
* Project Gutenberg Needs DVD Burners
* "SF" for PG Australia
Access to all the PG eBooks
---------------------------
To search by title, author, language and subject visit:
http://www.gutenberg.org/find
If you know the file's name then try our master download sites:
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/
or
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/
Using your Web browser or FTP program, navigate to the appropriate directory
and look for the first five characters of the file's name.
Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory
(e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.)
=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=[ USER SUBMITTED NEWS ]=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=
To submit a news item please email editor_AT_pg-news.org.
=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=[ PROGRESS REPORT ]=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=
Today Is Day #329/364, 2006
This Completes Week #47 and Month #10.75
35 Days/6 Weeks To Go [We get 52 Wednesdays this year]
TOTALS
19,920 [+ 67] Project Gutenberg U.S.
1,422 [+ 11] Australian eBooks
389 [+ 9] Gutenberg Europe
378 [+ 0] PG PrePrint Site
============
22,109 [+ 94] GRAND TOTAL
7,891 Books To Go To #30,000
~21% of the way from 20,000 to 30,000
[Our production year begins/ends 1st Wednesday of the month/year]
RESERVED/PENDING
43 - Reserved/Pending Count
2006 STATISTICS
3,961 New eBooks [at all four sites]
Averaging ~368 eBooks per month!!! [Includes: PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints]
All four sites combined are averaging 84 eBooks per week in 2006.
* 94 New eBooks This Week
* 114 New eBooks Last Week
* 405 New eBooks This Month [Nov]
PROGRESS REPORT (Including Distributed Proofreaders)
Monthly Averages:
* 368 per month in 2006
* 266 per month in 2005 [Counting 216 PGEu]
* 248 per month in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
* 336 per month in 2004
* 355 per month in 2003
* 203 per month in 2002
* 103 per month in 2001
Yearly Totals:
* 3961 New eBooks in 2006 (Passed 2005 total in 3/4 year)
* 3186 New eBooks in 2005 [Counting 216 PGeu]
* 2970 New eBooks in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
* 4049 New eBooks in 2004
* 4164 New eBooks in 2003
* 2441 New eBooks in 2002
* 1240 New eBooks in 2001
19,041 New eBooks since the start of 2001,
that's ~269 eBooks per Month for ~70.75 Months.
NOTES:
Project Gutenberg Australia total does NOT include PGAu eBooks posted at the
U.S. site: www.gutenberg.org
We have several counting methods, and they often differ by several books
that we have to hunt down by hand to reconcile. There is also some
duplication between these various collections. Volunteers will need to take
these duplications into account.
The totals for the four collections are eBooks that originated as created,
edited, proofread, formatted, etc., by Project Gutenberg and its 50,000
volunteers, while the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center with 100,000+ books
contains entire eBook collections from 125+ eLibraries so the production
statistics given here are for some 20,000+ eBooks created by the various
teams of Project Gutenberg volunteers, for which we share the responsibility
of maintaining. The Consortia Center eBooks were and are the responsibility
of the donating eLibraries, and we would be happy to forward any suggestions
for correction to those eLibraries, but those eBooks must be edited by the
donating parties, as per their requests.
=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=[ OTHER STATISTICS ]=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=-=
SNAIL MAIL (DVD & CD)
Over 15 million eBooks have been sent out via snail mail!!!
DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS:
9,881 [+46] at Distributed Proofreaders
The Distributed Proofreaders started production in October 2000 and
currently has over 36,000 volunteers.
For more complete DP statistics, visit:
http://www.pgdp.net/c/stats/stats_central.php
NOTE: PGDP mostly included in US eBooks
NOTE: PGEU has its own Distributed Proofreaders whose total closely matches
their grand total.
PGCC - PROJECT GUTENBERG CONSORTIA CENTER REPORT
137,142 eBooks at PGCC
The PGCC collection at http://www.gutenberg.cc has doubled in size from the
listings below, but we don't have exactly matching collection sizes yet for
a
new breakdown.
There are ~185,000 separate downloadable files, and presuming 45% are
redundant or are required at the level of more than one file per book:
The number of individual eBooks now is about 100,000.
Thus the grand total of eBooks at Project Gutenberg is 21,000+ created by
Project Gutenberg volunteers, and 100,000 donated from over 125 other
eLibraries, to create a downloadable library of 100,000+ eBooks plus 80,000
donated from over 100 other eLibraries, to create a downloadable library of
100,000+ eBooks.
PGCC's current eBook and eDocument Collections listings of 18 collections
with
this week's listing as:
[This list is being updated as the moment, you can get the entire list on
the
collections pages at gutenberg.cc]
Alex-Wire Tap Collection, 2,036 HTML eBook Files
Black Mask Collection, 12,000 HTML eBook Files
The Coradella Bookshelf Collection, 141 eBook Files
DjVu Collection, 272 PDF and DJVU eBook Files
eBooks@[redacted] Collection, 27,709 eBook Files
Himalayan Academy, 3,400 HTML eBook Files
Internet Archive ~30,000 eBook Files [In Progress]
Literal Systems Collection, 68 MP3 eBook Files
Logos Group Collection, ~34,000 TXT eBook Files
Poet's Corner Poetry Collection, 6,700 Poetry Files
Project Gutenberg Collection, 15,035 eBook Files
PGCC Chinese eBook Collection ~300 eBook files (Note Name Change)
Renascence Editions Collection, 561 HTML eBook Files
Swami Center Collection, 78 HTML eBook Files
Tony Kline Collection, 223 HTML eBook Files
Widger Library, 2,600 HTML eBook Files
CIA's Electronic Reading Room, 2,019 Reference Files
=======Grand Total Files======= ~137,142 Total Files ========
Average Size of the Collections 8,067.18 Total Files
DAILY PREPRINTS
378 [+ 0] at Daily PrePrints
Stats available at: http://preprints.readingroo.ms
Please note that sometimes it takes a few weeks for entire collections to
fully
appear in the PrePrints Section, thus the count sometimes jumps by a large
number when the files are eventually completed and added in. Also note that
the
PrePrint files are just that, PrePrints, and thus may move later to other
locations, including the main collection or The Project Gutenberg Consortia
Center, etc. For example, on June 14, 200 WAP compatible cell phone eBooks
appeared, and will likely be moved to other collection points later.
The entire process of working out the details just to send them to the
PrePrints
Section took well over a month.
Even with the speeded up process of the PrePrints Section, it still takes a
certain amount of time to collect and put such a large collection online in
a
proper manner.
THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE
25,000 eBooks are listed via The Online Books Page
NOTE: 6,300 of these are from PG.
INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY
22,284 entries at IPL
The Internet Public Library (IPL) had a similar listing to The Online Books
Page
which is now in limbo. If anyone knows what is happening with the IPL,
please
let us know. Inquiries, made months ago, and again recently, have not turned
up
any current information.
You can try a new IPL service at:
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/
It would appear that The Internet Public Library ended its first incarnation
with about 22,284 entries, which has now been surpassed by the Online Books
Page.
We are still looking for more Internet Public Library info.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
NOTE: This Newsletter is best viewed with a fixed-width font, such as
Courier New or similar.
To report an error in the following listings, please write to
help_at_pglaf.org
and include the word CORRECTION in the subject line.
[BP Moderator: Remaining material snipped, as it's already gone out
to this list. - JMO]