In Europe, Project Rastko, based in Belgrade, Serbia, launched Project
Gutenberg Europe (PG Europe) and Distributed Proofreaders Europe (DP
Europe) in January 2004. 100 ebooks were available in June 2005, in
several languages, as a reflection of European linguistic diversity.
In January 2005, Project Gutenberg reached 15,000 ebooks. EBook #15000
was The Life of Reason (1906), by George Santayana.
What about languages? There were ebooks in 25 languages in February
2004, and in 42 languages in July 2005, including Sanskrit and the
Mayan languages. The seven main languages – with more than 50 ebooks –
were English (with 14,548 ebooks on July 27, 2005), French (577
ebooks), German (349 ebooks), Finnish (218 ebooks), Dutch (130 ebooks),
Spanish (103 ebooks), and Chinese (69 ebooks).
In July 2005, Project Gutenberg Australia (launched in August 2001)
reached 500 ebooks.
Project Gutenberg PrePrints was launched 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 collection, because of missing data, low-quality files,
formats which were not handy, etc. 379 ebooks were available in
December 2006, and 2,020 ebooks in February 2009.
In December 2006, Project Gutenberg reached 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 and 3 months, from July 1971 to October 2003, were
necessary to produce the first 10,000 ebooks, 3 years and 2 months,
from October 2003 to December 2006, were necessary to produce the
following 10,000 ebooks. There were ebooks in 50 languages in December
2006.
# 20,000 to 30,000 ebooks
In December 2006, Mike Cook launched the blog Project Gutenberg News as
“the news portal for gutenberg.org”, to complement the existing weekly
and monthly newsletters. For example, the blog gave a table of the
weekly, monthly and yearly production numbers 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, and 80 ebooks in
2006.
The monthly production was 104 ebooks in 2001, 203 ebooks in 2002, 348
ebooks in 2003, 338 ebooks in 2004, 252 ebooks in 2005, and 345 ebooks
in 2006.
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, and
4,141 ebooks in 2006.
Project Gutenberg Australia reached 1,500 ebooks in April 2007.
Project Gutenberg Canada (PGC) was launched 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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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