ere not handy, etc. This new section had 379
files in December 2006.

= 20,000 to 25,000 Books

Project Gutenberg News began in November 2006 with Mike Cook as its editor and
webmaster, as a complement to the weekly and monthly newsletters that had
existed since a number of years. The website gives for example the weekly,
monthly and yearly production stats since 2001. 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. The yearly production
was 1,244 books in 2001, 2,432 books in 2002, 4,176 books in 2003, 4,058 books
in 2004, 3,019 books in 2005, 4,141 books in 2006 and 4,049 books in 2007.

Project Gutenberg of Canada (PGC) was founded on July 1st, 2007, on Canada Day,
by Michael Shepard and David Jones, and Distributed Proofreaders of Canada (DPC)
started production in December 2007. There were 100 books in March 2008, with
books in English, French and Italian.

The combined Project Gutenberg projects have produced a total of 26,161 titles
in 2007.

Project Gutenberg sent out 15 million books via snail mail in 2007, under the
form of CDs and DVDs. Dated July 2006, the latest DVD included 17,000 books.
Since 2005, CD and DVD files have also been periodically generated as ISO files
to be downloaded and used to make a CD or DVD using a CD or DVD writer.

As for volunteers, Distributed Proofreaders (DP), who started production in
October 2000, had over 52,000 volunteers in January 2008. DP processed 11,934
books since its beginnings. Distributed Proofreaders of Europe (DP Europe), who
started production in December 2003, had over 1,500 volunteers in January 2008.
Distributed Proofreaders Canada (DPC), who started production in December 2007,
had over 250 volunteers in January 2008.

Project Gutenberg reached the landmark of 25,000 books in April 2008. eBook
number 25000 was English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher (published
in 1902). On April 21, 2008, out of a total of 25,004 books, the main languages
were English (21,475 books), French (1,168 books), German (530 books), Finnish
(433 books), Dutch (326 books), Portuguese (217 books), Chinese (196 books),
Spanish (180 books), Italian (128 books), Latin (55 books) and Tagalog (54
books). And