PG NEWSLETERS 1999

By Michael Hart

DECEMBER 10, 1998

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DECEMBER 10, 1998

****This is the PG Newsletter for December 10, 1998**** [Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy

If you ever take the time to read this Newsletter beginning to the end . . .this is probably the best time. . .there is a LOT of information, for both those who just want to get our books, and, also for those who want to help create those books.

This Newsletter is actually being posted November's first Wednesday in response to the new United States copyright laws passed just last week and is thus doing double duty; as the December 10th Newsletter is more traditionally a venue for releasing some Etexts of the best classics— which I most often dedicate to my father, who passed away December 10, 9 years ago, just after getting PG's initial supporter, with one of his brilliant ideas that kept amazing me all of my life!!!

So. . .here is the biggest PG Newsletter of all time... containing more Etexts than ever before, and, getting us more ahead of schedule than ever before...with more people to contact about becoming a PG volunteer than ever before, and even more. . . .

This has been a VERY hectic week, as I came back out of vacation mode, just a week ago today, having posted only about 5 Etexts in 12 days of vacation since our previous Newsletter, and in that one week we posted all 31 Etexts left to complete the next month, as well as the 49 files of our new, and more complete, AND PUBLIC DOMAIN, Shakespeare edition! [During the writing of this Newsletter we have posted three more Etext files for May, 1999, appended at the end of the lists. We also should be posting the newly revised copyrighted Shakespeare files any minute. Sue and Greg may be sending you an independent Newsletter about those.

So. . .please forgive me if I have overdone or underdone anything here . . .I am already 7 hours late in getting this posted as we speak.

Michael S. Hart PG Executive Director

Contest:

0. Late new items.

1. Requests from our volunteers.

2. While "the cat in the Cat in the Hat hat" is away, will mice play?

3. A first glance at the new copyright laws.

4. The 36 PG Etexts for April, 1999.

5. The 49 NEW PG Complete Works of Shakespeare, this one is in the Public Domain, at least in the U.S.

6. The NEWLY REVISED editions of our 100th Etext, the copyrighted version of Shakespeare's works. . .1,000s of errors corrected!

7. Who is this "cat in the Cat in the Hat hat," anyway? Or what?

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0. Late news items.

I [Michael Hart] will be hard to reach for the coming month, as I will be meeting with a number of people, doing conferences, house hunting in Tacoma, and all that stuff, and, hopefully taking rest and refuge from everything to prepare to continue the fight for a reversal of the new copyright laws in court.

So, in addition to emailing me at [email protected], you should also cc:

Sue Asscher , or Greg Newby if you can't get to Sue

Sue and Greg will be posting the books while I am gone, and maybe even sending out one of these Newsletters!

Please also be encouraged to contact:

Dianne Bean , United States David Price England John Bickers New Zealand

[But don't feel you can only contact the one who is closest to you. . . .]

[We don't want Sue and Greg to be too inundated with everything.] They are not nearly as used to this as are Dianne, David and John, and I hope you will be as considerate of them all as possible.

Thanks!

Michael

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For those who access our sites to get or send Etexts:

archive.org has been through a MAJOR crash as is not, at least at this moment, fully recovered, so you may want to try our other sites. Email Sue and Newby to find out where to send files if you have trouble. I note that sunsite.unc.edu is not accepting files for the moment because the disk is full. . .more on this in the Volunteers' Newsletter in a day or so. Newby just this minute let me know that archive.org is up, at least for "outgoing" to send us files, but now it requires a "cd work" command after FTPing in. Newby will try to get the /etext directories running ASAP, so you can get the normal files from archive.org

[Right. . ."ootgoing" is now "outgoing" [cd work]!!!

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As usual, before we even get started, here are requests to find certain books our volunteers would LOVE to work on:

The works of Francesca Franco [of "Dangerous Beauty" fame] Tania

William Blake, The Four Zoas We have someone who is willing to pay for part of the cost of getting a copy of this. . .and will proofread. You can contact me directly about this one. . . . If the price is decent, just go ahead and get it if the copyright is 1922, or earlier. . .but please don't ship it to me yet. . . .

Burton's Arabian Nights. . .for: Ron Burkey Unabridged, dated before 1923 in copyright or publication info.

and

Would anyone be interested in collecting up pieces of the Human Genome to post on PG? It is often requested.

Here is a list of our Directors of Production, please feel