*********The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Wizard of Oz************This file should be named wizoz10.txt or wizoz10.zip******Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, wizoz11.txt.VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, wizoz10a.txt. This choice was made by popular demand for a seasonal literaturerelease, and several other books are being considered, includingother books in the Oz series, one of which we may release today,February 26, 1993--CBS TV presentation of the classic 1939 moviestarring Judy Garland, Bert Lahr (Lion), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Woodman), Frank Morgan (Oz), & Margaret Hamilton(The Wicked Witch of the West) with Billie Burke (Good Witch).I hope I got all that correct, we have been in a big hurry as it was thought the movie would be aired next month. Title: The Wonderful Wizard of OzAuthor: L. Frank BaumLanguage: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ASCIIRelease Date: February, 1993 [EBook #55][Date last updated: March 29, 2004]Information about Project Gutenberg (one page)We produce about one million dollars for each hour we work. Onehundred hours is a conservative estimate for how long it we taketo get any etext selected, entered, proofread, edited, copyrightsearched and analyzed, the copyright letters written, etc. Thisprojected audience is one hundred million readers. If our valueper text is nominally estimated at one dollar, then we produce amillion dollars per hour; next year we will have to do four textfiles per month, thus upping our productivity to two million/hr. The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away One Trillion EtextFiles by the December 31, 2001. [10,000 x 100,000,000=Trillion] This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers.We need your donations more than ever!All donations should be made to "Project Gutenberg/IBC", and aretax deductible to the extent allowable by law ("IBC" is IllinoisBenedictine College). (Subscriptions to our paper newsletter goto IBC, too)
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