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Saturday, 9th January 2010

Project Gutenberg Releases 2009 Statistics; Over 35,000 eBooks Released (in Many Languages)

Congrats to everyone at Gutenberg!

From the Blog Post by Mike Cook:

In 2009 we saw our 35,000th internally produced eBook go out, and our 25,000 in English, our 1,500th in French, 600th in German and 500th in Finnish. We also saw Dutch and Chinese pass 400 eBooks. (We still need to find ways to do more in Spanish and Portuguese.)

These 35,000+ eBooks, which represent over 50 languages are all at www.gutenberg.org. There are also over 75,000 Donated eBooks representing over 100 languages are at www.gutenberg.cc. In total, counting the eBooks donated to us from other eLibraries, individuals and schools Gutenberg.cc now has well over 100,000 titles, though it is probably closer to an even 100,000, given various duplications, etc.

The numbers presented below will approximate what are recorded as of noon on January 6, and the production year will be recorded as running last year from Wednesday, January 7, 2009 through January 6, 2010, and the coming year will end on January 5, 2011.

Thus we had 52 Wednesdays this past year for 364 days; every once in a while we get 53 production weeks on this calendar, which has to be one reason for eventually changing it.

A Grand total of 30761 from the automated in house counter;

* 25866 English
* 1531 French
* 625 German
* 517 Finnish
* 455 Dutch
* 405 Chinese
* 384 Portuguese
* 270 Spanish
* 225 Italian
* etc.

30,761 PG General Automated Count
1,830 Project Gutenberg of Australia
675 Project Gutenberg of Europe
468 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,008 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks]
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35,742 Grand Total [Counting subtractions]

* 9.825 eBooks Per Day
* 68.773 eBooks Per Week
* 297.850 eBooks Per Month

Source: Project Gutenberg News


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