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Project Gutenberg Milestones!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hart)
Wed Mar 2 20:36:10 2005
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:47:47 -0800
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From: Michael Hart <hart@PGLAF.ORG>
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*eBook Milestones*
Project Gutenberg Has Given Away ONE TRILLION eBooks!!!
Based on getting the average eBook to just 1% of the world population.
1% of the world population is 64,219,651 x 15,612 eBooks = 1+ trillion
[Just passed this mark this week. . .1.0026 trillion!!!]
With 15,612 eBooks online as of March 02, 2005 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$1.00 from each book
for Project Gutenberg to have increased the world's standard of living
by one trillion dollars.
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This is the 4th Anniversary of The Distributed Proofreaders!!!
6,314 eBooks Contributed To Project Gutenberg!!!
Congratulations!!! Many Many Thanks!!!
***
15,612 eBooks As Of Today!!!
12,550 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001
~56% of the Way from 10,000 to 20,000
~12% of the Way from 15,000 to 20,000
4,382 to go to 20,000!!!
Project Gutenberg averaged ~464 eBooks per year since July 4th, 1971
~251 Per month since the start of 2001
It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do the 1st 10,000 eBooks
It took ~32 months, from 2002 to 2005 for the last 10,000 eBooks
It took ~10 years from 1994 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100
It took ~1.25 years from Oct. 2003 to Jan. 2005 from 10,000 to 15,000
