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****The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, June 04, 2003***
*****eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Nearly 32 Years******
Project Gutenberg Is 32 Years Old As Of July 4th!!!
Today We Passed 8500 eBooks And Are Over 85% Of The Way to 10,000!!!
Imagine our 10,000 books have been separated into 20 stacks of 500 each,
we have just now completed 17 stacks leaving just THREE stacks to go:
GRAND TOTAL 10,000
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(_20__( 10,000
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(_19__( 9,500
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(_18__( 9,000 BOOKS DONE!!!
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(__5__( 2,500 (__5__( 2,500
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(__4__( 2,000 (__4__( 2,000 BOOKS TO GO!!!
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(__1__( 500 (__1__( 500 (__1__( 500
GRAND TOTAL #10,000 BOOKS DONE!!! BOOKS TO GO!!!
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PROJECT GUTENBERG PROGRESS REPORT FROM 1990 TO 2003 [Exceeds Moore's Law]
YR 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^####
NEXT >>>>>>> *9,000>8/03 9,000
Number of eBooks by Date * = Estimated July 4, 2003 8,500>7/03 8,500
May 20, 2003 8,000>5/03 8,000
7,500>3/03 7,500
7,000>1/03 7,000
6,500>12/02 6,500
6,000 >9/02 6,000
5,500 >7/02 5,500
5,000 >4/02 5,000
4,500 >2/02 4,500
4,000>10/01 4,000
3,500 >5/01 3,500
3,000 >12/00 3,000
2,500 > 8/00 2,500
2,000 >12/99 2,000
1,500 >10/98 1,500
1,000 >8/97 1,000
500 >4/96 500
100 >12/93 <<<December 10, 1993 100
10 > 12/90 10
YR 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^####
We are hoping we can make it from 100 to 10,000 in exactly 10 years. . .!
December 10, 1993 was the actual date of #100; 10,000 this December 10th?
Without any increase in this rate of growth: 1,000,000 on Dec. 10, 2013!
Over the 32 years we have averaged 266 per year.
This year we are averaging about 278 per month!
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CONGRATULATIONS to John Mark Ockerbloom and The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
who have just included their 20,000th eBook in their online catalogue!!!
4,000 of these are from Women Writers!!!!!!
We are hoping 1% of our first 10,000 eBooks will be from these sources!!!
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LATE NEWS FLASH!!! YET ANOTHER MILESTONE FALLS ON THE SAME DAY!!!
!!!Today We Reached 8571 eBooks And Are Thus 6/7 Of The Way to 10,000!!!
Imagine our 10,000 books have been separated into 7 stacks of ~1429 each,
we have just now completed SIX stacks leaving just THREE stacks to go:
GRAND TOTAL 10,000
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(__7__( 10,000 BOOKS DONE!!!
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(__6__( 8,571 (__6__( 8,572 <<<<<<< AS OF THIS HOUR!
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(__5__( 7,243 (__5__( 7,143
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(__4__( 5,714 (__4__( 5,714
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(__3__( 4,286 (__3__( 4,286
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(__2__( 2,827 (__2__( 2,857 BOOKS TO GO!!!
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(__1__( 1,429 (__1__( 1,429 (__1__( 1,429
GRAND TOTAL #10,000 BOOKS DONE!!! BOOKS TO GO!!!
Over the 32 years we have now averaged 268 per year.
This year we have now averaged about 305 per month!
305 Average Per Month in 2003 <<<
203 Average Per Month in 2002 <<<
103 Average Per Month in 2001 <<<
3,035 eBooks in the last 12 months (07/10/02 - 07/04/03) !!!
4,237 eBooks in the last 18 months (01/09/02 - 07/04/03)
[This is 98.8567% of Moore's Law, still 5 days to go!!!]
[Would anyone like to tell us how many Moore we need???]
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WOW!!!
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Many Many Many Thanks To ALL Our Project Gutenberg Supporters!!!
Michael
Michael S. Hart
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