The latest issue of the Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter (dated 1/21/2010) is now available.

Here Are Some 2009 Year-End Totals for the PG:

25866 English en
1531 French fr
625 German de
517 Finnish fi
455 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
384 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
225 Italian it
etc.

30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks]
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35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions]

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

The newsletter also notes a cool site at: www.bookdownloadlibrary.com
This site offers a tag cloud allowing you to search the Gutenberg database. It’s updated from the complete Gutenberg catalog weekly.

Source: Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter

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