This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for May, 1997 Etext #900 is the Folio version [.nfo] of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This file is currently drfr310.nfo but will be changed to dcfre10.nfo when the connections allow us to do it. Another 98 days and we should be posting several etext versions of Dante's Divine Comedy, in both Italian and in English, to get us to Etext #1,000. As of May 4, we had posted Etext #900, though we still have a problem with the filenames that need sorting in or out or whichever way we end up sorting it. For now, the information is all there but the indexing still probably needs some going over: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is available in three formats: .txt .htm and .nfo, which is the Folio format. You can get a free Folio to read this with on a temporary trial basis at: http://www.folio.com #900's filename is dfre310.nfo and dfre310.zip has the .nfo file in it, along with dfre310.htm, which is Vol. 3 of the 6 volumes in HTML format, which versions will be #890 to #895 as volumes 1 to 6. The .txt versions, #731-#736, were released last November. Because there were two file extensions that both used the same first portions [dfre310] that meant the .zip files for both files used the same name [dfre310.zip] so for now both files share the same .zip file. This will mean you will get both the .nfo file and the Vol 3 HTML file when you download dfre310.zip. I tried a few times to get something together in a hurry to fix this, but, as many of you well know, I think it is so much more important to get the CONTENT out there, and then worry about the FORM later, and I had promised a lot of people this Newsletter would go out today. This should give our new indexing systems fits, until we manage to sort things in, out, up down or. . . . *** Please forgive me if this Newsletter sounds rushed in any way, I had worked it out fairly well, but got the latest information on several of these items today at the last minute, and also did not receive information I had hoped would make a few things a little clearer. If this were perfectly organized and polished, then I would probably no longer be the one writing this. . . but Dianne Bean will be handling more organizationals in the future, and we will all hopefully owe her much in the way the future of Project Gutenberg looks. The best _I_ can do in terms of making things look at all polished is to do some cute marginations, on just a moment's notice. . .the real content polishing will take a little longer. . .which I have been trying for in the last few issues which we have received several about. . .but there is very little time to still send this out today. . .my apologies to all. There are also a few other items of great interest in my mailbox today that I feel it is necessary to share with you without delay. 1. It would appear that France has extended copyright 20 more years, in both the past and the future, which is eliminating perhaps a million books worth of material from the French Public Domain is vanishing overnight, so that perhaps a hundred of the most profitable best sellers can continue to reap an extra million dollars per year, while the rest of them languish unpublished and unread, but still protected by copyrights that in the time of publications were never paid for, and now are not paid for either. These are profits that not only eliminate the "Rights of the Public Domain" but also were never paid for in the contracts of the day. People buy the rights from movies, books, music, etc., that are supposedly going to expire next year, then lobby a bill through legal, political and other non-product oriented systems, and then POUF!. . .they have another 20 years to rake out more and more profits from work they never did. Sorry. . .enough on that. . .for now. But it would appear that the biggest Internet effects might be to eliminate the "Information Age" from most of the population who are thus become more and more a class of "The Information Poor" and to concentrate it in the hands of the least possible percentage of this population, who become more the class of "Information Rich" members of the "Landed Gentry" of the copyright . . .who now inherit the acreages of "The Information Age". . .much as EVERY age in the past has been used, and ab-used, by the powerful to make themselves more, and more, and more powerful, while taking everything, even if it takes erasing the law, and rewriting it to the specifications of the incredibly wealthy, just of keep an extra 1% for their pockets, while keeping 99% out of the hands, and the minds, of everyone else. "A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste." [If we measure humanness by what is in our minds. . . then what is it we are doing do humanity when we take all this material out of the Public Domain?] 2. Project Gutenberg at Carnegie Mellon University. About 10 days ago I received our first bank statement for our new bank account, and within the next 10 days I will be cataloging your donations, and sending them all donations from before 1/1/97. If you do not have your checks back in a month or so from that time, let me know, and I will see what I can find out. In addition, I just heard this very day that while we will be able to continue to use our bank account, the funds from Carnegie Mellon are only there to start us along, meaning only for this year, and we have to get rolling on more funding for next year. Much more on that later. 3. We have some new search and index software available, different versions at different sites. More below. These are all very recently developed and will need a lot of your feedback to polish up. *** And now, here is this month's index of files getting us up to #900. Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### May 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon, Folio[dfr310xx.xxx] 900 May 1997 Wonderful Balloon Ascents, by F. (Fulgence) Marion[wonbaxxx.xxx] 899 May 1997 The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James[James#13][tlotmxxx.xxx] 898 May 1997 The Rose and the Ring, by Thackeray [Thackeray #2][rsrngxxx.xxx] 897 Apr 1997 Orations, by John Quincy Adams, [April 30, 1839] [objqaxxx.xxx] 896 Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V6 htm[dfre6xxx.xxx] 895 Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V5 htm[dfre5xxx.xxx] 894 Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V4 htm[dfre4xxx.xxx] 893 Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V3 htm[dfre3xxx.xxx] 892 Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V2 htm[dfre2xxx.xxx] 891 Apr 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon V1 htm[dfre1xxx.xxx] 890 Apr 1997 Two Years in the Forbidden City, Princess Der Ling[tyifcxxx.xxx] 889 Apr 1997 Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Dickens [#23][lttiaxxx.xxx] 888 Apr 1997 Intentions, by Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #11] [ntntnxxx.xxx] 887 Apr 1997 Letters from the Cape, by Lady Duff Gordon [lddfgxxx.xxx] 886 Apr 1997 An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #10][ihsbnxxx.xxx] 885 Apr 1997 Memoirs of Popular Delusions V3, by Charles MacKay[3ppdlxxx.xxx] 884 Apr 1997 Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens [Dickens#22][mfrndxxx.xxx] 883 Apr 1997 Sketches by Boz, pseudonym of Charles [Dickens#21][sbbozxxx.xxx] 882 *The following five entries are acknowledged to be shorter entries than usual. Apr 1997 Lemorne Versus Huell, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard [lvsshxxx.xxx] 881 Apr 1997 My Garden Acquaintance, James Russell Lowell [#1] [mgacqxxx.xxx] 880 Apr 1997 The Boy Captives, by John Greenleaf Whittier [#2] [bcptvxxx.xxx] 879 Apr 1997 Yankee Gypsies, by John Greenleaf Whittier [#1] [ynkgpxxx.xxx] 878 Apr 1997 Little Britain, by Washington Irving [Irving #2] [lbritxxx.xxx] 877 Apr 1997 Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis #2[ironmxxx.xxx] 876 Apr 1997 The Duchess of Padua, by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #9] [dpduaxxx.xxx] 875 Apr 1997 A History of Aeronautics, by E. Charles Vivian [haeroxxx.xxx] 874 Apr 1997 A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #8][hpomgxxx.xxx] 873 Apr 1997 Reprinted Pieces, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #20][cdrprxxx.xxx] 872 Apr 1997 The Golden Sayings of Epictetus [epictxxx.xxx] 871 Apr 1997 The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl, Jerome K. Jerome[12][jjulrxxx.xxx] 870 Apr 1997 The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, Jerome K. Jerome[11][jjsnyxxx.xxx] 869 Apr 1997 The Philosopher's Joke, Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ#10] [jjphjxxx.xxx] 868 Apr 1997 Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies, by JK Jerome [JKJ#9][jjkorxxx.xxx] 867 Apr 1997 The Cost of Kindness, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ#8] [jjkndxxx.xxx] 866 Apr 1997 Passing of the Third Floor Back, by JK Jerome [#7][jjp3bxxx.xxx] 865 And, since there were two more days to get us to the first Tuesday of May: May 1997 The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde[#12][hpaotxxx.xxx] 902 May 1997 The Jew of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe [CM #3] [jmltaxxx.xxx] 901 *** The Primum Mobile www site (http://www.primo.com.au) provides full details of the TRAPEZE broadcast data network, including latest news, FAQ's, product information and a GUI demonstration. In order to access TRAPEZE, a user requires only the Io Research data broadcast receiver (http://www.iores.com.au) and the TRAPEZE application software (free with the receiver). 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