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["Michael S. Hart" : Gutenberg Newsletter: August 31, 1991, Part I]
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The Project Gutenberg Newsletter__August 31, 1991__Our 21st Year
This month's release__The Federalist Papers [feder10.txt or .zip].
This is about the first 20% of The Federalist Papers as edited by a
person who is not a scholar on the subject (yours truly). Thus any
odd characters (and there were a few different ones in each fifth--
they came to me in five parts) were replaced with spaces, carriage-
returns, hyphens, etc. I am leaving the original .zip file fedgut.
zip for Tom Horton and or other scholars to work with. I will make
what progress I can, and post the other four portions this weekend.
The compression was particularly effective at 60%. These were made
available on the request of Tom Horton who should be of assistance,
as mentioned in the next paragraph. Glad to be of service, Tom. I
hope you will be able to clean these up a bit more in the future, a
service we hope to be a continuing part of Project Gutenberg to and
from those who use our etexts.
We have several versions in the works, and new editions of federxx,
and others should be out soon. We also have encouraged discussions
of various copyright issues on the GUTNBERG server, refereed (~more
or less~) by three experts in the field.
New items of interest for late 1991 and early 1992:
1.
Peter Pan has been withdrawn from distribution until we have solved
the question of copyright to our satisfaction. A Project Gutenberg
standard is that all works distributed should be well researched to
make sure we are not infringing on anyone's copyright. A copy of a
first edition is supposed to be on it's way from the Carolinas, and
we look forward to re-releasing Peter Pan very shortly. If this is
not the case, we have two etext copies of Paradise Lost, both which
should be okayed for release shortly, one of which would replace an
eliminated Peter Pan until another could be made to replace it. It
should only take a week from the time it is received, so you should
Peter Pan on our list again very quickly.
2.
A retrospective. . .releases from previous years (as our storage is
growing, thanks to the assistance of Kevin Gilmore and his approach
to building of our hardware. We should have additional storage for
previous works to be re-released, and eventually to post all future
Project Gutenberg releases without having to withdraw any releases,
well. . .for a few years, anyway; by that time we should be working
with totally new kinds of hardware, some of which may be donated.
3.
And. . .just the opposite. . .a sneak peek into the future. . .as a
list of works in progress, completed works waiting only for a clear
copyright analysis to be released, and works to be on the schedules
for the next few years.
4.
Other items in the news: we have received a request for commercial
interests to pay for using our Lewis Carroll Collection as the base
for editions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
We have also received several financial contributions this month, a
beginning to the self-sufficiency of Project Gutenberg.
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