PROJECT GUTENBERG Michael S. Hart, Founder The Third Annual Ethics and Publishing Conference 1: 00 PM, July 13, 2010, Room B-07 Media and Public Affairs Building, George Washington University Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
My goal in talking to you today is to change the world. . . As much as: The Gutenberg Press, The Literacy Revolution, The Scientific Revolution, & The Industrial Revolution
SUGGESTIONS Always Get Devices With Wi-Fi Consider An Extra Battery When Possible Buy devices your friends have: It is well worth the extra advantages. You can even start your own computer group.
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PREDICTIONS Petabyte Drives in the 2020’s [affordable] Holds a Billion e. Books of a million characters each Enough Space to Hold Every Book Ever Written Reason for Permanent Copyright Since Internet began?
GREAT LIBRARIES: THE MEMORIES OF GREAT CIVILIZATIONS Small Libraries Will Have Millions of Books. Personal Computers = Personal Libraries Distinctions between Major Libraries of the World & Local Libraries are vanishing. . YOU Can Own Millions of e. Books today!
YOUR OWN 10 MILLION BOOKS ONLY 10 NATIONAL LIBRARIES Have 10+ Million Books, BUT YOU COULD HAVE 10 M NOW! Takes 10 terabytes, or 4 T if you are using compression. Your own library large enough to make the record books. 5 million books = Top 100 various world library categories.
What Do You Want Books For? Would you want: A Cadillac if everyone could have one? A Mansion if everyone could have one? A billion dollars if everyone could have one? A million books if we all could have them? A tera/petabyte if everyone could have one? (Terabytes under $100, pocket drives under $150)
Personal Computers as Personal Libraries Before The Gutenberg Press the average person owned zero books. Before Project Gutenberg the average person owned zero libraries. The times they are a’changin’.
“If what you did yesterday still seems big to you today, then your goals for tomorrow are not yet big enough. ” Ling Fu Yu, circa 600 B. C.
“There is no force greater than an idea whose time has come. ” Victor Hugo
What is an e. Book? An e. Book is what you would get if you sat down and typed in a book. (A picture of a book is not an e. Book, though most importantly, you CAN read it, but you cannot search, quote, edit, etc. )
Who makes e. Books? Anyone with computer access. After an e. Book is published on Project Gutenberg a billion+ can have access the very next day. (5 billion if you count all cell phones!!!) Best Sellers Written/Read on Cell Phones in Japan!
“GIVE ME A LEVER LONG ENOUGH … A DECENT PLACE TO PUT IT …AND I WILL MOVE THE WORLD” -ARCHIMEDES
3, 750, 000 PLUS BOOKS AVAILABLE http: //www. worldebookfair. org The annual World e. Book Fair is held July 4 to Aug. 4. 100% of books are free of charge! Including ~2. 4 million from http: //www. archive. org 750, 000 from http: //www. worldpubliclibrary. com 400, 000 from http: //www. wattpad. com 100, 000 from http: //www. gutenberg. org and http: //www. gutenberg. cc etc. 60, 000 IMSLP [Music Library]
Books!!! Soar with the birds in the mind of Leonardo, Travel the deeps with Verne in the Nautilus Or with Rickover’s crew under the North Pole. Voyage to the Moon with Verne and Armstrong, Dialog with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Archimedes, Or conquer the world with their student, Alexander, Books are limited only by the human imagination. . .
HTTP: //WWW. GUTENBERG. ORG HTTP: //WWW. GUTENBERG. CC HTTP: //WWW. GUTENBERG. CA HTTP: //WWW. GUTENBERG. AU HTTP: //WWW. PGE. RASTKO. NET HTTP: //PREPRINTS. READINGROO. MS ALL YEAR ROUND 24/7/365 YOU CAN DOWNLOAD 100, 000 FREE e. Books
1, 000 Times the RAM per Dollar!!! 8 Megabyte USB Flash Drives Are Only 1 Decade Old 2001 - Original IBM 8 M Memory Key for $60 2006 - 8 G Flash drives for $60 With Just One More Iteration. . . 8 Terabytes for $60!!!
Limited Distribution vs. Unlimited Distribution It’s better if I have it, and YOU do NOT. Artificial Scarcity, a la Prof. Kingsfield What if EVERYone could have EVERYthing? Is there any reason everyone with a computer couldn’t / shouldn’t have every word ever written from thousands of years ago to 15 years ago?
MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU We want YOU to have the source, the source of knowledge, the source of information, the source of all libraries. We want you to OWN civilization, NOT for civilization to own YOU.
How many of you realize that a terabyte holds one million books? One million plain text books, just what you would get if you typed in a favorite book as plain email.
Affordable Terabyte Libraries $75 can add a terabyte to your system 1 TB = 1 million books of 1 MB per book 2. 5 million books in compressed formats! Those terabytes will get cheaper until we are seeing these prices on petabytes which is enough to hold every word ever published. . . up to this very moment. .
PROJECT GUTENBERG MISSION STATEMENT I. Break Down the Bars of Ignorance and Illiteracy II. Encourage the Creation and Distribution of e. Books III. Project Gutenberg Needs YOU!!! To Bring More Books To More People!
What Project Gutenberg Does NOT Do Select the titles (Chosen by the volunteers who start them) Choose the fonts you read in Recommend particular pieces of hardware or software (The choice is yours. ) Obvious exceptions are. pdf files, etc.
“A people cannot hope to be both ignorant and free. ” -Thomas Jefferson
Technological Publishing Revolutions! More books were printed in the first 50 years of The Gutenberg Press, than in all the thousands of years of previously recorded human history. More books will be created as e. Book files the first 50 years of the Third Millennium than in all of previously recorded history.
Build a better world from the bottom up, not from the top down. Forget about funding. Just get out there and do it yourself.
How To Optimize e. Books 1 Billion Cell Phones Are Made Every Year . 1 Billion Computers Are Made Every Year Plus Millions of PDA’s, PPC’s, i. Pods, i. Pads etc. All These Should Be Supported In A Wide Variety Of Formats, Styles, Fonts, etc. We need to put e. Books where people will actually find them and read them.
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“Project Gutenberg has taken the Internet to the next level. ” Vint Cerf
Project Gutenberg’s Growth Record from 10 e. Books to 10, 000 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^#### 10, 000>10/03 10 K 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 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^####
Project Gutenberg’s Growth Record from 10 e. Books to 20, 000 123412341234123412341234123412341234 -90 --91 --92 --93 --94 --95 --96 --97 --98 --99 --00 --01 --02 --03 --04 --05 --0625, 000 October 21, 2007 25 K >10. 07 >25 K 20, 000 June 21, 2006 20 K >06/06 20 K 19, 000 March 27, 2006 19 K > 03/06 19 K Added ~216 from PG of Europe January 01, 2006 18 K > 01/06 18 K 17 K > 08/05 17 K 16 K > 04/05 16 K 15 K > 01/05 15 K 14 K > 10/04 14 K 13 K > 06/04 13 K 12 K > 03/04 12 K 11 K > 01/04 11 K >>> October 15, 2003 >>> 10 K > 10/03 *10 K* 9, 000 > 8/03 9, 000 8, 000 > 5/03 8, 000 Note this graph is in 1/4 years 7, 000 > 1/03 7, 000 6, 000 > 9/02 6, 000 5, 000 > 4/02 5, 000 Added PG Australia in August, 2001 4, 000> 10/01 4, 000 3, 000> 12/00 3, 000 2, 000 > 12/99 2, 000 1, 000 > 8/97 1, 000 100 >12/93 <<<December 10, 1993 100 10>12/90 10 -90 --91 --92 --93 --94 --95 --96 --97 --98 --99 --00 --01 --02 --03 --04 --05 --06 - YEARS 123412341234123412341234123412341234 QUARTERS
Quotations to Consider
“There is no end to the great things we can accomplish
if we don’t worry about who gets the credit. ” -Anonymous
“The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person who is doing it. ” -Ancient Chinese Proverb
“Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. ”
HOW MANY e. BOOKS? ? ? One Site = Over 1 e. Book Per Second http: //www. gutenberg. org Averages one e. Book/second for years There are 100’s or 1, 000’s of PG sites Your Site Could Be Next!!!
1955 - cost of the average paperback was 26 cents, equal to the average gallon of gasoline (both prices including tax)
Today the average paperback cost is approximately 10 dollars. The media are full of stories about the high price of gas at $3. Have you ever seen the media mention book hyperinflation?
The Five Information Ages 1450 – 1710 The Gutenberg Press 1830 – 1831 High Speed Steam Press Circa 1900’s High Speed Electric Presses 1960’s – 1970’s The Xerox Machine Modern Times – The Internet/The Web
COPYRIGHT: THE WAR AGAINST INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING AND REPUBLISHING 1709 Anti-Gutenberg Press 1831 Anti-Steam Powered Press 1909 Anti-Sears Catalog, Electric Press 1976 Anti-Xerox Machine 1998 Anti-Internet
REPLICATORS Fax me a pepperoni with double cheese Print out a Ferrari and drive away in it Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson Engines of Creation, by Eric K. Drexler Reprap, The First Home Replicators
The First World e. Book Fair Gave away ~30 million e. Books from July 4 to August 4, 2006 http: //www. worldebookfair. com
The Second World e. Book Fair presented 820, 000 free e. Books from July 4 to August 4, 2007 Twice as many free e. Books as in 2006 http: //www. worldebookfair. com
Week 1 World e. Book Fair Network Traffic Week 2 Weeks 1+2 July 2006
What’s in the Collection? Now For the future More languages Translations into 100 languages Difficult works: mathematics classics, botany and physiology. Tables and figures. “Complete works”
How to get involved Visit www. gutenberg. org for HOWTOs and FAQs Join Distributed Proofreaders http: //www. pgdp. net Choose a book, and digitize it! Join our mailing lists: http: //lists. pglaf. org Fix an e. Book! Email errata@pglaf. org
How Can You Help? Consider e. Books for all types of library needs: Reference Cataloging & acquisitions Free online access to e. Books Volunteer opportunities Be educated about e. Book differences: Licensing issues: really free? Re-use and fair use: really a book? Cost, especially compared to print
“If what you did yesterday still seems big to you today, then your goals for tomorrow are not yet big enough. ” Ling Fu Yu, circa 600 B. C.
Premises For Billion Book e. Library There Are 25 Million Public Domain Books If We Do Just 40% Of Them, That Is 10 Million There Are 100 Languages With 1+ Million Speakers If We Do Just 40% Of Them, That Is 100 Languages 10 Million Books Translated Into 200 Languages Creates A Library of ONE BILLION BOOKS!!!!!!!
A One Billion Book Library!!! 4 million e. Books translated into 250 languages 5 million e. Books translated into 200 languages 6. 7 million e. Books translated into 150 languages 10 million e. Books translated into 100 languages 15 million e. Books translated into 67 languages 20 million e. Books translated into 50 languages 25 million e. Books translated into 40 languages There are 250 languages spoken by over 1 million Books are limited only by the human imagination. . .
If We Can Provide a Billion e. Books to a Billion People, that is a QUINTILLION e. Books One billion times one billion equals ONE QUINTILLION Personally, I’ll settle for a quadrillion
95 YEAR COPYRIGHT TERMS If information doubles every 9. 5 years then 10 such doubings in 95 years. 1. 2 9. 5 years 50 / 50 2. 4 19. 0 years 75 / 25 3. 8 28. 5 years 85. 5 / 12. 5 4. 16 38. 0 years 93. 75 / 06. 25 5. 32 47. 5 years 96. 875 / 03. 125 6. 64 57. 0 years 98. 4375 / 01. 5625 7. 128 66. 5 years 99. 5625 / 0. 78125 8. 256 76. 0 years 99. 60375 / 0. 390625 9. 512 85. 5 years 99. 8046975 / 0. 1953125 10. 1024 95. 0 years 99. 90234375 / 0. 0976515625
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