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- JULY, 1994
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- CONTENTS
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- 0. NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR - personal messages to our readers.
- 1. HOT OFF THE PRESS - information new to this edition.
- 2. THE GUTENBERG PROJECT - a summary for those unfamiliar with the project.
- 3. ETEXT AVAILABILITY - ways of obtaining the etexts.
- 4. ADDRESSES - contact addresses for Project Gutenberg.
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- 0. NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR
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- Still getting the bugs out of this new format, please advise.
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- As always, I am terrified of the prospect of doubling our output
- to 16 Etexts per month for next year.
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- We will be having a HUGE membership drive for more volunteers.
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- Any suggestions?
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- We also need to do better at recruiting supervisory people,
- and more lawyers to write copyright letters.
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- 1. HOT OFF THE PRESSES--NEW INFORMATION
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- JULY RELEASES
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- The following are the Etexts posted by Project Gutenberg on
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- Project Gutenberg released the following Etexts in July, 1994
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- Mon Year Title/Author [filename.ext] ##
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- Aug 1994 Wild Justice by Ruth M. Sprague [wildj10x.xxx] 152C
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- Jul 1994 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge [rime10xx.xxx] 151
- Jul 1994 The Republic by Plato, Jowett [platr10x.xxx] 150
- Jul 1994 The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs [lcont10x.xxx] 149
- Jul 1994 The Autobiography of Ben Franklin [bfaut10x.xxx] 148
- Jul 1994 Common Sense by Thomas Paine [comsn10x.xxx] 147
- Jul 1994 A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett [lprss10x.xxx] 146
- Jul 1994 Middlemarch by George Eliot [as per PBS series] [mdmar10x.xxx] 145
- Jul 1994 The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf [voout10x.xxx] 144
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- 2. THE GUTENBERG PROJECT
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