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The weekly production was 24 books in 2001, 47 books in 2002, 79 books in 2003, 78 books in 2004, 58 books in 2005, 80 books in 2006 and 78 books in 2007. The monthly production was 104 books in 2001, 203 books in 2002, 348 books in 2003, 338 books in 2004, 252 books in 2005, 345 books in 2006 and 338 books in 2007.
If there where were works in 25 languages only in February 2004, there were works in 42 languages in July 2005, including Iroquoian, Sanskrit and the Mayan languages. There were books in 50 languages in December 2006. Half of these 20,000 books were produced by Distributed Proofreaders since October 2000, with a monthly average of 346 new digitized books in 2006.
August 1997: 1,000 books; April 2002: 5,000 books; October 2003: 10,000 books; January 2005: 15,000 books; December 2006: 20,000 books; April 2008: 25,000 books. In July 1971, Michael Hart created Project Gutenberg with the goal of making available for free, and electronically, literary works belonging to public domain.
The number of books that have been processed through Distributed Proofreaders has grown fast, with a total of 3,000 books in February 2004, 5,000 books in October 2004 and 7,000 books in May 2005, 8,000 books in February 2006 and 10,000 books in March 2007, with five books produced per day and 52,000 volunteers in December 2007.
In February 2004, there were works in 25 languages. In July 2005, there were works in 42 languages, including Iroquoian, Sanskrit and the Mayan languages. The seven main languages with more than 50 books were English, French, German, Finnish, Dutch, Spanish and Chinese. In December 2006, there were books in 50 languages.
If 32 years were necessary to digitize the first 10,000 books, between July 1971 and October 2003, 3 years and 2 months were necessary to digitize the following 10,000 books, between October 2003 and December 2006.
And we probably are only a few years away from a storage disk capable of holding all the print media of our planet. What about documents other than text? As of December 2006, there are 367 computer-generated audio books and 132 human-read audio books. The number of human-read books should greatly increase over the next few years. There were 412 books in May 2008.
2006/07: 35th anniversary of Project Gutenberg. 2006/07: New DVD, with 17,000 books. 2006/11: Launching of the Project Gutenberg News website. 2006/12: 20,000 books in Project Gutenberg. 2006/12: 400 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders Europe. 2006: Digitization of 345 books per month. 2007/03: 10,000 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders.
The section Project Gutenberg PrePrints was set up in January 2006 to collect items submitted to Project Gutenberg which for some reason were interesting enough to be available online, but not quite ready yet to be added to the main Project Gutenberg collection, the reason being for example missing data, low-quality files, formats which were not handy, etc.
2005/06: First 100 books in Project Gutenberg Europe. 2005/07: 500 books at Project Gutenberg of Australia. 2005/10: 5th anniversary of Distributed Proofreaders. 2005: Digitization of 252 books per month. 2006/01: Launching of Project Gutenberg PrePrints. 2006/02: 8,000 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders. 2006/05: Creation of the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation.
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