The driving force behind Project Gutenberg has not only been great authors, but also outstanding volunteers like Greg Newby, director and CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF) since 2001, and Marcello Perathoner, the webmaster and main software developer of the www.gutenberg.org website. July 2005 > eBooks in 42 languages 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 27 July 2005), French (577 ebooks), German (349 ebooks), Finnish (218 ebooks), Dutch (130 ebooks), Spanish (103 ebooks), and Chinese (69 ebooks). January 2006 > Project Gutenberg PrePrints 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. December 2006 > eBook #20000 > Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (audiobook), by Jules Verne 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 next 10,000 ebooks. There were ebooks in 50 languages in December 2006. December 2006 > Project Gutenberg News, the official blog 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. The blog gave for example the 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. July 2007 > Project Gutenberg Canada Project Gutenberg Canada (PGC) was launched on 1st July 2007, on Canada Day, by Michael Shepard and David Jones. December 2007 > Distributed Proofreaders Canada Distributed Proofreaders Canada (DPC) started production in December 2007. There were 100 ebooks in March 2008, in English, French and Italian. 2007 > 15 million ebooks by snail mail