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JUNE 1998

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Books Index of the 36 July Etexts for 1998

We have now completed 14% of our 10,000 Etext goal. . . and selected Great Expectations as #1400, Anna Karenina as #1399, and Tarzan the Untamed as #1401, hopefully we will always have something for everyone to read.

We lost touch with our volunteer at the Library of Congress, if anyone can put us in touch with a friend there, thanks!!!

Dianne Bean will away from her email until June 22; please hold your mail til then. If you need to send a completed etext, send it to Michael Hart.

Geof Pawlicki has purchased a set of O Henry, as below. If you would like any of these to work on and/or to keep, all you have to do is to pay the shipping. [geof@NOSPAM.netcom.com]

These are mostly collections titled after one story in the collection.

The Whirligigs
Cabbages and Kings
The Trimmed Lamp
Sixes and Sevens
Options
Rolling Stones
Strictly Business
Heart of the West
The Voice of the City
The Four Million
Roads of Destiny

See above the 36 July Etexts for 1998. The Federalist Papers tops the list to commemorate the 27th Anniversary of the first Project Gutenberg Etext, the US Declaration of Independence. Since we are currently two months ahead of this year's schedule, we are posting most of these books in June, so they would be currently arriving at the best time for people to include them in some of the 4th of July celebrations, and also Bastille Day. Therefore the month of June will primarily be filled with "History of Democracy" Etexts, as was our first 10 years at Project Gutenberg. We hope you will find them enlightening.

These Etexts are from http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm
Our Thanks to The Constitution Society for Providing This Etext!

From Edupage:

SENATE PASSES ONLINE COPYRIGHT EXTENSION
The Senate unanimously approved the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which offers the same protection to online computer software, music, movies and written works that they enjoy in more tangible form. In a key provision, the legislation exempts libraries and online services from prosecution for copyright violations committed by patrons and customers. Individuals who violate copyrights for financial gain will be liable for $1 million in fines and up to 10 years in prison. (Wall Street Journal 15 May 98)

INTERNET GROWTH
A study by the U.S. Commerce Department ( http://ecommerce.gov/ ) says that traffic on the Internet is doubling every hundred days and predicts that electronic commerce will grow to $300 billion a year by 2002. (USA Today 16 Apr 96) [So. . .anyone who says they can make the Internet 100 time faster, will have to deal with the fact that traffic with double as fast as they do any doubling of the speed. Don't expect any real speedups. Michael Hart]

[Note Well: This means traffice is multiplying by 10 every year. . . . When you listen to those people promising to make the Internet run 100 time faster in 10 years, ask them if the Internet won't be slowing down because they aren't proposing increasing the speed as fast as traffic. None of them are saying they could possibly make the Internet handle 100 times more traffic every year. . . . This is smoke and mirrors.

ECONOMIST PREDICTS Y2K PROBLEM WILL CAUSE RECESSION
In an op-ed piece, Edward Yardeni, chief economist and managing director of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell says that problems arising from the Year 2000 computer glitch could cause a major recession, as businesses fail and government agencies become incapable of delivering basic services, including tax collection, welfare payments, national defense and air traffic control: "The likely recession could be at least as bad as the one during 1973-74, which was caused mostly by a disruption in the supply of oil. Information, stored and manipulated by computers, is as vital as oil for running modern economies. If information is harder to obtain, markets will allocate and use resources inefficiently. > Market participants will be forced to spend more time and money obtaining information that was previously available at little or no cost... Furthermore, a 2000 recession is bound to be deflationary. The U.S. may experience a $1 trillion drop in nominal GDP and a $1 trillion loss in stock market capitalization." (Wall Street Journal 4 May 98) [and you heard it here first, years ago. . .mh]

NEW DOS IS YEAR 2000-COMPLIANT
IBM has launched a new PC DOS 2000 that automatically corrects the two-digit dates that threaten to befuddle older computer systems, and also supports the European Monetary Union's new euro currency symbol -- a management problem that could prove even more troublesome for European businesses than the Y2K problem. According to recent research, there are between 120 million and 150 million people who still use DOS on their desktop machines. "We believe about half of those are business users," says a manager at IBM's Network Computing Software division. That figure doesn't include users of Microsoft Windows 3.1, which includes DOS as a component. (InternetWeek 27 May 98)

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