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>This is he Project Gutenberg Newsletter: Wednesday, September 2, 1998
>[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
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>**********This coming Tuesday is International Literacy Day!**********
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>
>September 8 is International Literacy Day, give someone the gift of an
>assortment of Etexts on floppy disk; encourage them to pass on copies!
>
>In honor of this we are posting more files this month than ever before
>. . .from several different official release months, and when, finally
>I get a chance to take a deep breath, I will post the new Shakespeare!
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>We also got a very nice writeup in the major French paper, Le Monde:
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>http://www.lemonde.fr/dossiers/utopies/gut.html
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>We are scheduled to be listed in the "WIRED 25" in November's issue.
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>***Requests for Assistance***
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>We need a non- translated copy of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales,
>something published before 1924. . . . Please contact me and also cc:
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>Looking for a lecture Henry James delivered, and which was issued
>in a magazine named Pall Mall Gazette (or something like that).
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>Paulo Costa Galvco
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>Revista Brasil de Literatura
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>
>Now, in a totally confusing order of months, here are ALL the December
>Etexts, 23 of the October Etexts, and 5 of the January, 1999 Etexts.
>**You may have to remind yourself when getting them to use /etext99**
>
>[This is totally my [Michael Hart] fault, as I tend to get ahead of
>myself on occasion, while not yet getting the new Shakespeare posted.]
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>
>Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
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>Dec 1998 Laches, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator [Plato #6][lachsxxx.xxx]1584
>Dec 1998 Options, by O Henry [O Henry #2][optnsxxx.xxx]1583
>Dec 1998 Reserved for Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, NT [ xxx.xxx]1582
>Dec 1998 Reserved for Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, all[ xxx.xxx]1581
>
>Dec 1998 Charmides, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator #5 [crmdsxxx.xxx]1580
>Dec 1998 Lysis, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #4 [lysisxxx.xxx]1579
>Dec 1998 Aucassin and Nicolete, Tr. by Andrew Lang[Lang#10][aucncxxx.xxx]1578
>Dec 1998 The Grey Room, by Eden Phillpotts [gryrmxxx.xxx]1577
>
>Dec 1998 The Life of Phineas T. Barnum, by Joel Benton [ptbnmxxx.xxx]1576
>Dec 1998 The Foundations of Personality, by Abraham Myerson[prstyxxx.xxx]1575
>Dec 1998 Historic Girls, by E. S. Brooks [hgrlsxxx.xxx]1574
>Dec 1998 Frank's Campaign/Farm & Camp, Horatio Alger Jr. #9[frcmpxxx.xxx]1573
>
>Dec 1998 Timaeus, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #3 [tmeusxxx.xxx]1572
>Dec 1998 Critias, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #2 [critixxx.xxx]1571
>Dec 1998 The Power of Concentration, By Theron Q. Dumont [prconxxx.xxx]1570
>Dec 1998 The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac[HdB#51][tlotvxxx.xxx]1569
>
>Dec 1998 Poems, by William Ernest Henley[William Henley #2][pmwehxxx.xxx]1568
>Dec 1998 Poems, by T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot [Eliot #3][tsepmxxx.xxx]1567
>Dec 1998 The Evolution of Modern Medicine, by William Osler[teommxxx.xxx]1566
>Dec 1998 Last Days of Pompeii, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton [tldopxxx.xxx]1565
>
>Dec 1998 Life of Johnson by [James] Boswell [ljnsnxxx.xxx]1564
>Dec 1998 The Crystal Stopper, by Maurice LeBlanc [cstprxxx.xxx]1563
>Dec 1998 Little Rivers, by Henry van Dyke [van Dyke #4][ltrvsxxx.xxx]1562
>Dec 1998 Pagan & Christian Creeds, by Edward Carpenter [pchrcxxx.xxx]1561
>
>Dec 1998 The San Francisco Calamity, Charles Morris, Ed. [sfclmxxx.xxx]1560
>Dec 1998 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, By Balzac #50[adpapxxx.xxx]1559
>Dec 1998 The Profits of Religion, by Upton Sinclair [prfrlxxx.xxx]1558
>Dec 1998 Men of Iron, by Ernie Howard Pyle [femenxxx.xxx]1557
>
>Dec 1998 The Marriage Contract, by de Honore de Balzac[#49][mrgctxxx.xxx]1556
>Dec 1998 A Passion in the Desert, by Honore de Balzac [#48][apitdxxx.xxx]1555
>Dec 1998 Adieu, by Honore de Balzac [Honore de Balzac #47][adieuxxx.xxx]1554
>Dec 1998 The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac[HdB#46][hmstpxxx.xxx]1553
>
>Dec 1998 Most Interesting Stories of All Nations, Hawthorne[misanxxx.xxx]1552
>Dec 1998 A Cathedral Courtship, by Kate Douglas Wiggin [#9][cthrcxxx.xxx]1551
>Dec 1998 A Lady of Quality, by Frances Hodgson Burnett [#8][ladyqxxx.xxx]1550
>Dec 1998 Commentary on Galatians, Martin Luther [mlgltxxx.xxx]1549
>
>
>Please note that we have reserved 1500-1548 for Shakepeare, new editions.
>This reserves the rest of the October Etexts and all the November Etexts.
>Thus the current releases are being labeled as being from December, 1998,
>and January, 1999.
>
>
>Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 2][32blhxxx.xxx]1499
>Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 1][31blhxxx.xxx]1498
>Oct 1998 The Republic by Plato, Tr. Benjamin Jowett/see 150[repub11x.xxx]1497
>
>Oct 1998 Massacre at Paris, by Christopher Marlowe [CM #5][msprsxxx.xxx]1496
>Oct 1998 The Golf Course Mystery, by Chester K. Steele [glfmsxxx.xxx]1495
>Oct 1998 The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume 2[2lotjxxx.xxx]1494
>Oct 1998 The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume 1[1lotjxxx.xxx]1493
>
>Oct 1998 The Life of Columbus, [in his own words] by Hale [tloccxxx.xxx]1492
>Oct 1998 Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang [Lang #9] [letdaxxx.xxx]1491
>Oct 1998 The New McGuffey Fourth Reader[McGuffey Reader #2][4nmcgxxx.xxx]1490
>Oct 1998 The New McGuffey First Reader [McGuffey Reader #1][1nmcgxxx.xxx]1489
>
>Oct 1998 True Story of Christopher Columbus, by E.S. Brooks[ttsccxxx.xxx]1488
>Oct 1998 Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary the Ring, by GB Shaw[sringxxx.xxx]1487
>Oct 1998 The Unseen World and Other Essays, by John Fiske [nswoexxx.xxx]1486
>Oct 1998 The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation [crntnxxx.xxx]1485
>
>Oct 1998 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Ibanez [4hrsmxxx.xxx]1484
>Oct 1998 Forty Centuries of Ink, by David N. Carvalho [40cnkxxx.xxx]1483
>Oct 1998 Modeste Mignon, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac#45][mdmgnxxx.xxx]1482
>Oct 1998 A Daughter of Eve, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#44][doevexxx.xxx]1481
>
>Oct 1998 Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes ][tbssdxxx.xxx]1480
>Oct 1998 A Vanished Arcadia, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham ][vajipxxx.xxx]1479
>Oct 1998 A Parody Outline of History, by D. O. Stewart [#2][apoohxxx.xxx]1478
>Oct 1998 The Toys of Peace by H.H. Munro ("Saki") [Saki #3][toypcxxx.xxx]1477
>
>and also
>
>Jan 1999 Tamburlaine the Great PT 2, by Christopher Marlowe[tmbn2xxx.xxx]1589
>
>Jan 1999 A Rogue's Life, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #9][rgslfxxx.xxx]1588
>Jan 1999 The Black Robe, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #8][blkrbxxx.xxx]1587
>Jan 1999 Man and Wife, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #7][mandwxxx.xxx]1586
>Jan 1999 The Wrong Box, by Stevenson & Osbourne [RLS#40][wrngbxxx.xxx]1585
>
>
>And now from Edupage:
>
>PC PRICES PLUMMET
>The price for a home PC, which broke the $1,000 mark just 18 months ago, is
>now tumbling below $400 -- well within the reach of the average U.S. family.
>Micro Center, an Ohio-based chain of 13 stores, began selling a $399 PC
>under the Power Spec label earlier this month, and PrecisionTec LLC, a PC
>maker based in California, has introduced its Gazelle machine for the same
>price. The low prices don't include computer monitors, which usually start
>at about $150. Analysts at ZD Market Intelligence are saying the low prices
>will spark a surge of PC-buying among households with incomes of less than
>$30,000 -- a segment that so far has been difficult to reach -- and that PC
>penetration should reach close to 50% of U.S. households by the end of the
>year. (AP 21 Aug 98)
>
>SEC SCOLDS COMPANIES ON Y2K DISCLOSURE
>The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a statement last week chiding
>companies for their lack of candor in disclosing Year 2000 problems to their
>stockholders. "While the number of companies disclosing year 2000 issues
>has increased dramatically, many companies are not providing the quality of
>disclosure that we believe investors expect." The SEC has posted a document
>on its Web site, <http://www.sec.gov>, that compares "meaningful Y2K
>disclosure" with "boilerplate Y2K disclosure," but an agency task force
>recently found that most companies have opted for the latter, just inserting
>some meaningless legalese into their financial reports. (Los Angeles Times
>3 Aug 98)
>
>THE BLOATWARE DEBATE
>A 100-company survey by Standish Group International found that 45% of a
>software application's features are never used, 19% rarely used, 16 %
>sometime used, 13% often used, and 7% always used; yet, in spite of the
>fact that most of an application is seldom used, software gets bigger all
>the time. For example, Windows went from 3M lines of code (Windows 3.1) to
>14M lines (Windows 95) to 18M (Windows 98). Booze, Allen & Hamilton chief
>information officer Roger Walters is one of the people complaining now about
>this "bloatware" phenomenon: "My problem is, I'm forced to upgrade all the
>time -- not for functionality I want, but for features someone wanted for
>me." But industry analyst Jeffrey Tarter defends the software makers by
>noting: "I can't think of a single lite version of any product that has
>ever succeeded. It may be inelegant and sluglike, but bloatware sells."
>(Computerworld 10 Aug 98)
>
>INTEL CATCHES FLAK FOR WEB ADVERTISING TACTICS
>In an effort to sell higher-power computer chips, Intel is sponsoring an
>"Intel Inside Optimized Content" program that encourages Web sites to use
>dense, complicated graphics that slow down a computer's processor when the
>pages are downloading from the Internet. An accompanying message tells the
>user that a Pentium II microprocessor would speed up the process. Intel
>normally reimburses PC makers 50% of their Web-based advertising costs if
>the ad sports an "Intel Inside" logo, but ups its contribution to 75% if the
>site uses complicated graphics and includes wording that says the page could
>be better viewed using a Pentium II processor. "It's a hell of an
>incentive," says one Web editor. "PC companies are going to advertise on
>sites where they pay only 25% of the costs, as opposed to sites where they
>have to pay for half of the ad." But the innovative tactic has raised the
>ire of some Web site owners: "What they're asking us to do is turn our
>sites into a demonstration of their products," says a senior VP at IDG,
>publisher of Computerworld magazine. "We're going to optimize our content
>for our readers, not for Intel." (Tampa Tribune 17 Aug 98)
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