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Books Index update from #1,185 to #1,225. 

Passing another milestone:

We should be posting Etext #1250 this month, which would be a total of 1/8 of our goal of 10,000 Etexts on the Internet.

At that time the following will become true:

$1 Trillion Given Away By Project Gutenberg

We have now given away $1 trillion worth of Etexts:  based on Etexts being nominally valued at $8 each to an average of 100 million users on the 2 billion computers in the world.

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To avoid the difference between American and other -illions, where each successive name is multiplied by a million instead of where the Americans multiply by only a thousand, please use the following: 

We have now given away $1,000,000,000,000 in Etexts, based on Etexts being nominally valued at $8 each to an average of 100,000,000 users on the 2,000,000,000 computers in the world.

In August we should be able to reduce that nominal value to $7, then next March to $6, and on 1/1/2000 to $5 as a nominal value per book; and when we finally reach #10,000, it will take only a truly nominal value of $1 each for Project Gutenberg to have given away a trillion dollars worth of Etexts, even if we still only reach 100 million for the average number to use each Etext, out of a world population that
will be between 6 billion and 7 billion, with 2 billion to 3 billion computers for them to use, perhaps even 4 billion by that time. The current world population is now exactly 5.9 billion, as of today; it should be 6 billion by the time we reach the millennium].

Recently released:

William the Conqueror by E.A. Freeman
[Saved #1066][wlmcnxxx.xxx]1066
We wanted to make the obvious connection from year 1066 to book 1066

If you would like to reserve any of the dates between 1225 and 2000, just let me know.
Example:  something on Columbus for #1492, and on
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Requests:
Madame Bovary
Emerson
Yeats
Tennyson
Byron
Verne's Off On A Comet
George Eliot's Ramola
20 Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
Brecht
J.M. Barrie's Little White Bird [First Peter Pan appearance]

We still need someone to help us create a "hit counter" for
relaying hits to other Etext sources, so they get credited.
This is VERY important for some of them to get grants, etc.

Those of you interested in doing Spanish Etexts may want to take a look at:

http://listserv.ccit.arizona.edu/comedia.html

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Here are the 36 Etexts for February, 1998

WGATES SAYS GOVERNMENT ACTIONS HAMPERS MICROSOFT'S ABILITY TO INNOVATE
Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates says that if the Justice Department prevents the company from adding new features to its Windows software, Microsoft will lose its ability to remain a technology industry leader.
Gates argues: "It's hard to say that you're going to compromise on your ability to innovate in Windows.  If I can't put Internet support in Windows, then Windows will fail. If I can't put speech recognition into Windows, Windows will fail. You know, our path is to make Windows better.  If we can't innovate in our products, then you know we will be replaced."
(Washington Post 3 Mar 98)

MICROSOFT SOFTENS POSITION
Microsoft says it is revising agreements with about 12 U.S. and 30 European Internet service providers to allow them advertise and promote browsers other than Microsoft's own Internet Explorer. A company spokesman explained: "This change makes sense from a business perspective, and if it
helps to alleviate any potential government concerns, then it's a change we're happy to make."
(Washington Post 2 Mar 98)

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