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Books Index update from #1.029 to #1,057. 

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for October, 1997 [ To Etext #1057] 

Well. . .we [I] survived the mad rush to get Etext #1,000 online on schedule, though I must admit I am still at little behind in posting some updated files and answering yesterday's email. . . . 

You will be receiving a separate note detailing Project Gutenberg's goals for 1998, and beyond, which may have some surprises for you. If you have had the idea of starting a project in your own country, region, or language, this one is a message you won't want to miss. 

It will be titled: "Project Gutenberg Needs Your Help!" and should be coming to you next week. 

As you will notice below, we are completing our collection of Oscar Wilde and would like to hear from you if you have any Wilde materials we have not filed for downloading yet. 

In addition, you will notice that we have started releasing Shakespeare, as I promised we would after Etext #1,000, as individual files rather than only as the "The Complete Works." We hope to do several editions, and are forming an Etext Team specifically for Shakespeare. Please let me know if interested. 

We will also be forming Etext Teams for other specific authors and subjects-- just let me know which you would like. 

Dianne Bean, our Director of Production, has just moved this week and will be out of email touch for a while. Stepping in to help is one of our volunteers from England, David Price, from the University of Coventry. David and Dianne will combine to take my place in November while I am off schmoozing and conferencing on the West Coast, and doing a feasibility study on the possibilities of moving back home to Tacoma, Washington. I will be up and down the coast in November and would love to stop to see as many of you as possible, just let me know. I will be spending most of my time in the Seattle-Tacoma area the first half of the month, and in Silicon Valley and SF Bay Area starting mid-month. 

My Apologies: Please note: Due to my somewhat exorbitant efforts to get Etext #1,000 out on schedule, I accidentally posted 36 Etexts in July, and 40 in August. This was pointed out to me in time to fix the August listings, but I just noticed July, and since it is now to late to fix this easily, I will just remedy this by the posting of only 28 Etexts labelled as September, to get us on track. Oops! mh [PS. . .I may change the month labelling later, but not the Etext name/number. 

There are supposed to be 32 Project Gutenberg Etexts released every month. mh 

ELECTRONIC MONOGRAPHS ARE "GREAT ADVERTISING"
As university publishers struggle to find the right business model for offering scholarly documents online, some early innovators are finding that making a monograph available electronically can boost sales of hard copies.
The National Academy Press has already put 1,700 of its books online, and is finding that the electronic versions of some books have boosted sales of the hard copy monographs -- often by two to three times the previous level. It's "great advertising," says the Press's director.
The MIT Press is experiencing similar results: "For each of our electronic books, we've approximately doubled our sales.
The plain fact is that no one is going to sit there and read a whole book online. And it costs money and time to download it."
Meanwhile, the Association of American Publishers has set up a Web site to showcase its new Digital Object Identifier System, which identifies copyrighted material and links the user to the copyright owners. http://www.doi.org/overview.html
(Chronicle of Higher Education 12 Sep 97) 

[In addition I heard a news report that said books of all varieties have an average of 28% increased sales, if they are posted on the Internet.] 

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