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    PROJECT GUTENBERG NEWSLETTER
    JULY 1998

    Please send your feedback directly to Michael S. Hart

    Books Index update from #1,405 to #1,442.

    Our 28th Internet Fourth of July! Congratulations to a thousand volunteers who have helped us over the years!

    [Usually delivered the first Wednesday of each month.] [Major crashes this week, let me know if you have NOT! received expected email from me, or if you did not get this through the normal channels you usually get mail]


    We are currently working on our first Etext to be sent in both Chinese characters and in English translation.

    It is the story of Mulan; for those of you who want to use the movies to extend your children's reading, this is a prime example. . .and to show that not all we see originated in the language we see it in.

    Have We Given Away A Trillion Dollars In Etexts Yet???

    This first week of July, 1998, marks the completion of our 27th year of public information service on the Net since we started on the 4th of July, 1971, with the US Declaration of Independence, with a goal to present to the public 10,000 Etext files for free downloading. I am proud to announce that our volunteers have just now reached 1/7 of that goal, and that we hope we can post enough more Etexts this year to reach 1/6 of 10,000.

    Next year we hope to reach 1/5 of that goal, by giving away Etext #2000 on or before January 1, 2000.

    So. . .right now you would have to value each Etext at $7, and presume the average Etext will reach 1.687% of the world population to presume we have given away the trillion dollars worth of Etexts that is our goal.

    When the world population is 10 billion [only just now reaching 6 billion, but I remember when it was 2.5] it will only take reaching 1% of the population with that mythical average Etext, and with 10,000 Etexts it will only require a nominal $1 value per copy to say we had given away a trillion dollars worth.

    However, since no one else is even PRETENDING to do it . . .we are still likely to be the first to say we had a trillion dollar philanthropy project.

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