rst 100 ebooks in June 2005. These books were in
several languages, as a reflection of European linguistic diversity,
with 100 languages planned for the long term.

New teams were working on launching Project Gutenberg Canada, Project
Gutenberg Portugal and Project Gutenberg Philippines.

In December 2006, Project Gutenberg had 20,000 ebooks. eBook #20000 was
the audiobook of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (Vingt mille
lieues sous les mers, 1869), by Jules Verne, in its English version.

If 32 years were necessary to digitize the first 10,000 books--between
July 1971 and October 2003--, 3 years and 2 months were necessary to
digitize the following 10,000 books--between October 2003 and December
2006.

The section Project Gutenberg PrePrints was set up in January 2006 to
collect items submitted to Project Gutenberg which were interesting
enough to be available online, but not ready yet to be added to the
main Project Gutenberg collections, the reason being missing data,
low-quality files, formats which were not handy, etc. This new section
had 379 files in December 2006.

# Tens of thousands of ebooks

In December 2006, Mike Cook launched Project Gutenberg News as "the
news portal for gutenberg.org", a website to complement the existing
weekly and monthly newsletters. It has showed for example the weekly,
monthly and yearly production stats since 2001.

The weekly production was 24 ebooks in 2001, 47 ebooks in 2002, 79
ebooks in 2003, 78 ebooks in 2004, 58 ebooks in 2005, 80 ebooks in
2006, and 78 ebooks in 2007.

The monthly production was 104 ebooks in 2001, 203 ebooks in 2002, 348
ebooks in 2003, 338 ebooks in 2004, 252 ebooks in 2005, 345 ebooks in
2006, and 338 books in 2007.

The yearly production was 1,244 ebooks in 2001, 2,432 ebooks in 2002,
4,176 ebooks in 2003, 4,058 ebooks in 2004, 3,019 ebooks in 2005, 4,141
ebooks in 2006, and 4,049 ebooks in 2007.

Project Gutenberg Australia reached 1,500 ebooks in April 2007.

Project Gutenberg Canada (PGC) was founded on July 1st, 2007, on Canada
Day, by Michael Shepard and David Jones. Distributed Proofreaders
Canada (DPC) started production in December 2007. There were 100 ebooks
in March 2008, in English, French and Italian.

Project Gutenberg sent out 15 million ebooks via CDs and DVDs by snail
mail in 2007. A new DVD released in July 2006 included 17,000 ebooks.
CD and DVD files have also been generated as ISO files (since 2005) to
be down