Internet Archive invites you to the following event. Feel free to pass
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Free lecture by Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart and Greg Newby,
CEO

December 10 at 7pm
Golden Gate Club www.goldengateclub.com/

On the way to One Million Free ebooks: From 100 ebooks on December 10,
1993 to over 10,000 ebooks on December 10, 2003.

Attendees will receive a free CD containing nearly 3,500 of the Project
Gutenberg ebooks, or a DVD with nearly 9,400.
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Project Gutenberg’s online text archive (a free ebook collection) has
reached its 10,000^th book. To celebrate this milestone Internet
Archive is hosting Michael Hart, who will be speaking at the Golden
Gate Club (135 Fisher Loop in the Presidio of San Francisco) on
Wednesday December 10 starting at 7pm.

Michael will speak on the past 30 years of Project Gutenberg, what this
milestone means, and ideas for reaching one million free books.
Furthermore, he will outline how all of us can help build this
universal library.

A reception will follow the speech and those who attend will receive a
free DVD or CD stuffed with free digital books. Donations gratefully
accepted.

Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart was given an
operator's account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the
operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the Materials Research Lab
at the University of Illinois. The premise on which Michael Hart based
Project Gutenberg was: anything that can be entered into a computer can
be reproduced indefinitely. Michael termed this "Replicator
Technology". The concept of Replicator Technology is simple; once a
book or any other item (including pictures, sounds, and even 3-D items
can be stored in a computer), then any number of copies can and will be
available. Everyone in the world, or even not in this world (given
satellite transmission) can have a copy of a book that has been entered
into a computer.

A few years ago WIRED said:
"On The Verge Of Achieving The Impossible."

And now. . . .

Project Gutenberg has just released their 10,000th eBook,
exactly 18 months, to the week, after their 5,000th. . .

. . .thus putting to rest that human-driven enterprises
can't keep up with Moore's Law of growth for a decade


The Project Gutenberg growth record since 1990:

YR
1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003
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10K>10/03 10K

9,500>9/03 9,500

9,000>8/03 9,000

8,500>7/03 8,500
8,000>5/03 8,000
7,500>3/03 7,500
7,000>1/03 7,000
6,500>12/02 6,500
6,000 >9/02 6,000
5,500 >7/02 5,500
5,000 >4/02 5,000
4,500 >2/02 4,500
4,000>10/01 4,000
3,500 >5/01 3,500
3,000 >12/00 3,000
2,500 > 8/00 2,500
2,000 >12/99 2,000
1,500 >10/98 1,500
1,000 >8/97 1,000
500 >4/96 500
100 >12/93 <<<December 10, 1993 100
10 > 12/90 10
YR
1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003
^####

Nearly all the time you see graphs of this nature, they are
predictions. . . .

In this case it is an accomplished fact. The "/" marks the exact date.


All the 10,000 eBooks, except the Human Genome Project and the audio
books, due to size limitations, and the Project Gutenberg of Australia
eBooks, due to copyright, will be hopefully be available shortly on a
single DVD.

By the end of their 2003 production year, there should be around 11,000
Project Gutenberg eBooks. . .

20,000 by the end of 2005!!!

1,000,000 by 2015!!!!!!!

For more information, contact Internet Archive at 415.561.6767 or
info@.... To learn more about Project Guttenberg, please see:
http://www.gutenberg.net/ Directions to the Golden Gate Club can be
found here: http://goldengateclub.com/