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 downloaded for burning CDs or DVDs on
a CD or DVD writer.
Project Gutenberg reached 25,000 books in April 2008. eBook
#25000 was "English Book Collectors" (1902), by William Younger
Fletcher.
If Gutenberg allowed everyone to get print books at little
cost, Project Gutenberg has allowed everyone to get a library
of electronic books at no cost on a cheap device like a USB
drive.
In February 2009, there were 32,500 Project Gutenberg (PG)
ebooks, including the ebooks at PG Australia (1,750 ebooks), PG
Europe (600 ebooks) and PG Canada (250 ebooks), with more
Project Gutenberg websites to come in other countries. Ten new
ebooks have been added per day.
As explained by Michael Hart: "In addition, there is
'PrePrints' where we put anything we don't know for sure will
qualify as a PG ebook. This gets instant exposure, and was
created to help keep things flowing. There are 2,020 ebooks
available at PrePrints. The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center
(PGCC) has over 75,000 ebooks rendered as PDF files. The
difference? These files were prepared by other eLibraries, not
Project Gutenberg, and are using our worldwide distribution
network to be seen. Thus, counting these 75,000+ along with our
over 32,500 other ebooks, has
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