I was asked for some PR materials. . . .
Here is something I just sent out internally, so it was right at hand. . .I'll try to send a few more in the next few days. . . .
Michael
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In November, 2003, the UPI United Press International
said:
"These are momentous times in the digital content industry. . . .
"Project Gutenberg - the pioneering and largest depository of free eBooks - added the 10,000-th title to its unsurpassed collection."
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"The best way to get the future you want. . .is to invent it."
"I wanted a computer full of 10,000 eBooks. . .and not just for me, but for everyone."
Michael S. Hart
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A few years ago WIRED said:
"On The Verge Of Achieving The Impossible."
And now. . . .
Project Gutenberg has just released their 10,000th eBook, exactly 18 months, to the week, after their 5,000th. . .
. . .thus putting to rest that human-driven enterprises can't keep up with Moore's Law of growth for a decade.
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The Project Gutenberg growth record since 1990:
YR 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^####
10K>10/03 10K
9,500>9/03 9,500 9,000>8/03 9,000
8,500>7/03 8,500
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 ^####
Nearly all the time you see graphs of this nature, they are predictions. . . .
In this case it is an accomplished fact. The "/" marks the exact date.
All the 10,000 eBooks, except the Human Genome Project and the audio books, due to size limitations, and the Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks, due to copyright, will hopefully be available shortly on a single DVD.
By the end of their 2003 production year, there should be around 11,000 Project Gutenberg eBooks. . .
20,000 by the end of 2005!!!
1,000,000 by 2015!!!!!!!
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"Digital books are better because you can search them for content. Project Gutenberg has been my most powerful tool for developing the ideas in my forthcoming book. This has increased both the correctness and the depth of every chapter."
Marvin Minsky Computer Pioneer MIT AI Lab Founder And Much Much More
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"Never, in the field of human education or literature,
have so many owed so much to so few." Anonymous
Paraphrase of Winston Churchill
or
"Never have so many owed so much to so few." Anonymous
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"A Whole Elephant Full Of Books"
If each of the 10,000 Project Gutenberg eBooks were printed out in a standard hardback format, using 3/4" of paper and 1/4" binding, weighing one pound, the entire collection would weigh as much as an adult elephant. If these books were placed on a shipping palate, 10 by 10 and 100 books high, the tallest basketball players could not see over the stack.
Thus 10,000 such books, stacked up would be over 833 feet tall, higher than the Washington Monument at 555 feet, or the Hoover Dam at just over 730 feet, 917 feet high by the end of the year, and 1,000 feet by March, 2004. . . .
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"Project Gutenberg's first 10,000 eBooks is a significant step toward the universal library humanity needs---all knowledge accessible by everyone."
Stewart Brand President, The Long Now Foundation Founder, The Whole Earth Catalog
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"As Project Gutenberg reaches its 10,000th eBook soon they will have truly reached and surpassed the next level.'"
Vinton Cerf Founder of the Internet
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"Congratulations on making the best of world literature fully available to the broad public for the first time in history."
Richard Stallman Founder of the Free Software Association Author of GNU
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"640K of RAM is more than enough for anyone."
Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft
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"There will never be a need for more than a handful of computers." Thomas Watson President of IBM
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"The Wright Brothers will never get off the ground."
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"One of the true Internet pioneers"
Steven Levy Computer Historian
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