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In July 2005, there were works in 42 languages, including Iroquoian, Sanskrit and the Mayan languages. Let us take French as an example. The number tripled in 15 months.
January 2004: 25 languages. July 2005: 42 languages. December 2006: 50 languages. April 2008: 55 languages. = Main Languages = Downloads From ibiblio.org *ibiblio.org is the main downloading site. The downloads of mirror sites are not included here. July 31, 2005: 37,532 files downloaded in the day; 243,808 files downloaded in the week; 1,154,765 files downloaded in the month.
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.
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.
2007: 4,049 books per year. 2001: 104 books per month. 2002: 203 books per month. 2003: 348 books per month. 2004: 338 books per month. 2005: 252 books per month. 2006: 345 books per month. 2007: 338 books per month. 2001: 24 books per week. 2002: 47 books per week. 2003: 79 books per week. 2004: 78 books per week. 2005: 58 books per week. 2006: 80 books per week. 2007: 78 books per week.
3,000 books in December 2000. 4,000 books in October 2001. 5,000 books in April 2002. 10,000 books in October 2003. 15,000 books in January 2005. 20,000 books in December 2006. 25,000 books in April 2008. 2001: 1,244 books per year. 2002: 2,432 books per year. 2003: 4,176 books per year. 2004: 4,058 books per year. 2005: 3,019 books per year. 2006: 4,141 books per year.
According to the estimates of the European Commission, there should be 10 million European teleworkers in the year 2000, which would represent 20% of the number of teleworkers worldwide. According to another study made in January 1997 for the European Commission, 1.3 million jobs could be maintained or created by the European Union between 1997 and 2005.
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 2005, there are 391 computer-generated audio books and a few human-read audio books. Voice-activated requests will be possible, as a useful tool for visually impaired readers.
Project Gutenberg counted 10 books online in August 1989; 100 books in January 1994; 1,000 books in August 1997; 2,000 books in May 1999; 3,000 books in December 2000; 4,000 books in October 2001; 5,000 books in April 2002; 10,000 books in October 2003; 15,000 books in January 2005; 20,000 books in December 2006 and 25,000 books in April 2008.
2004/02: Michael Hart's visit to the European Parliament, in Brussels. 2004/10: 5,000 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders. 2004: Digitization of 338 books per month. 2005/05: 7,000 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders. 2005/05: First 100 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders Europe. 2005/06: 16,000 books in Project Gutenberg.
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