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>From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
>Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter
>
>This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for December, 1996
>
>This is probabaly the last Newsletter that is going to the OLD server;
>at gutnberg@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu. . .if you want to delete yourself
>. . .there is probably no need, but you should ask me about" listproc@
>prairienet.org if you haven't changes your subscription.
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>Well, my link to uiarchive is finally back up, so the November Etexts
>should be on all our major sites, as below, by the time you see this.
>I am not sure when the international sites do their mirroring but the
>US sites should all be ready to go.
>
>My apologies, many of our links, drive, and computers have been down,
>all week long.
>
>My apologies, also, for the fact that the CBC told me my interview
>would be on the air on Thanksgiving [Canadien OR American]. . .but
>they JUST called and told me it would be on the CBC and PRI tonite
>at 7:00 PM. . .we get PRI on PBS. . .Tuesday. . .December 3, 1996.
>
>[Canadian Broadcasting Company/Corporation]
>[Public Radio International]
>[Public Broadcasting Service/System]
>
>We shall see/hear.
>
>Wired also called today, they now say we are in the February Wired
>which should go on the stands in early January. Around page 90.
>
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>Once again we have managed to present 32 files we hope will be of interest to
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>then we hope to once again double our production, this time to 64 per month--
>for each of the 12 months of 1997.
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>While this may appear as an incredible amount of work, the truth is that your
>volunteers at Project Gutenberg have already spend several months doing books
>at the rate of 64 per month, during the Spring of 1996 just to insure that in
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>However, Etexts and copyright clearances are only barely coming in for the 32
>Etexts per month scheduled for 1996, and usually we would be posting the ones
>for December right now, rather than for November, so unless we manage more of
>getting volunteers, or increasing their efficiency, we might have to send out
>only 32 books per month in 1997. . .maybe change our name to "The Book Of The
>Day Project."
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>Michael Stern Hart
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>Project Gutenberg
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>Here are the 32 Project Gutenberg Etexts for November, 1996.
>
>
>Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ###
>
>A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work.
>
>Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V6 [6dfrexxx.xxx] 736
>Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V5 [5dfrexxx.xxx] 735
>Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V4 [4dfrexxx.xxx] 734
>Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V3 [3dfrexxx.xxx] 733
>
>Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V2 [2dfrexxx.xxx] 732
>Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V1 [1dfrexxx.xxx] 731
>Nov 1996 Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #13] [olivrxxx.xxx] 730
>Nov 1996 Hackers/Computer Revolution Heroes, by Steven Levy[hckrsxxx.xxx] 729C
>
>Nov 1996 Emile Zola, by William Dean Howells [howells #5] [ezolaxxx.xxx] 728
>Nov 1996 The Star-Spangled Banner, by John Carpenter [stsbpxxx.xxx] 727
>Nov 1996 Psychological Counter-Current by Howells [WDH #4] [pccmfxxx.xxx] 726
>Nov 1996 Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles #2 [moiaixxx.xxx] 725
>
>Nov 1996 The Man of Letters as a Man of Business [Howells3][tmlmbxxx.xxx] 724
>Nov 1996 Henry James, Jr., by William Dean Howells [WDH#2][jimjrxxx.xxx] 723
>Nov 1996 James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist, by J.C. Ridpath [jotisxxx.xxx] 722
>Nov 1996 The Birds' Christmas Carol, Kate Douglas Wiggin #2[tbsccxxx.xxx] 721
>
>Nov 1996 Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #12] [lmyerxxx.xxx] 720
>Nov 1996 Plays of Wm.E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson [RLS #34][tpohsxxx.xxx] 719
>Nov 1996 Tono Bungay, by H. G. Wells [H. G. Wells #6] [tonobxxx.xxx] 718
>Nov 1996 Chita: A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn[chitaxxx.xxx] 717
>
>Nov 1996 The Cruise of the Jasper B., by Don Marquis [#3] [jsprbxxx.xxx] 716
>Nov 1996 Moon Endureth [Tales/Fancies], by John Buchan [#5][ndrthxxx.xxx] 715
>Nov 1996 Bobbsey Twins in the Country, by Laura Lee Hope #1[tbticxxx.xxx] 714
>Nov 1996 Memoirs of Popular Delusions V2, by Charles MacKay[2ppdlxxx.xxx] 713
>
>Nov 1996 Thomas Jefferson, by Edward S. Ellis [tjeffxxx.xxx] 712
>Nov 1996 Allan Quatermain, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #1] [allnqxxx.xxx] 711
>Nov 1996 Love of Life and other stories by Jack London [#4][llifexxx.xxx] 710
>Nov 1996 The Princess and Curdie, by George MacDonald[GM#4][prcurxxx.xxx] 709
>
>Nov 1996 The Princess and the Goblin, by George MacDonald 3[prgobxxx.xxx] 708
>Nov 1996 Raffles, Further Adventures, by E.W. Hornung [#2] [raflsxxx.xxx] 707
>Nov 1996 The Amateur Cracksman, by E.W. Hornung [Raffles#1][amatcxxx.xxx] 706
>Nov 1996 The Roadmender, by Margt [Michael Fairless] Barber[rmendxxx.xxx] 705
>
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