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By Paul Biba

press.jpgThis is on the Project Gutenberg site and I thought the stats were worth reproducing.

… In fact, the Internet Archive total will likely increase double what was expected, as they were just approching 1,500,000, July 4, and reached 1,545,731 texts by noon EDT, July 27. This will likely reach additional totals of ~50,000 added just during the period from July 4 through August 4. Add to that the 25,000 or so mentioned above, and a few hundred more at Project Gutenberg sites and others, and the grand total by the end of the fair is likely to surpass 2,500,000, as follows:

1,550,000 Internet Archive
500,000 World Public Library
113,000 Project Gutenberg
130,000 ebooksabouteverything.com
37,000 Other eBook Sites
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2,320,000 Grand Total [Estimate]

In addition, Internet Archive offers:

191,421 movies
381,602 audio recordings
66,622 concerts [totals as of July 27]

[These are not added into our grand totals this year, but will probably be added in next year, so statistic oriented people should be advised]

The World eBook Fair is handing out a million files per day on the average with best day July 15 of 1.5 million files.

Reminder: some of the entries take more than one file so a one to one matching of files to books will not be accurate.

As you can see, our earliest most popular books were joined by some other classics, as well as computer oriented works.


Most Popular Titles At Half Way Point:

1. Emma, by Jan Austen

2. Linux Complete Command

3. Little Woman, by Lousia May Alcott

4. Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad

5. Workbook in Higher Algebra

6. A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson

7. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne

8. The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio

9. Overview of Servlets and JavaServer

10. RedHat Linux Unleashed

11. Win XP Pro

12. Cousin Bette, by Honore de Balzac

13. The Beautiful Book Of Nursery Rhymes, by Frank Adams

14. Workbook in Higher Algebra

15. C+ Programming

16. MY SQL manual

17. Colonel Chabert, by Honore de Balzac

18. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

19. The Art of War, by Sun Tzu

20. The Time Machine, by Herbert George Wells

Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg
co-Founder
World eBook Fair

Thanks to ResourceShelf for the link.

 
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