From: rab@sprite.berkeley.edu (Robert A. Bruce)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Desktop Library CD-ROM 2000+ etexts available for $40
Date: 20 Aug 1992 08:18:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: sabotage.berkeley.edu

The Desktop Library CD-ROM contains 2000+ electronic texts: Classic
literature, historical documents, and technical information.  The
complete works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Virgil, Dante and Milton
are on the disc, along with books by Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Stephen
Crane, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe.  The text of many treaties
and international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, the 1991 CIA
world fact book, dictionaries, thesaruses, and word lists.

The disc is ISO-9660 and all the files are plain text ASCII, so this disc
can be used on almost any system.  Zipped versions of the texts are also
included for quick downloading from bbs's and ftp sites.

Nearly all of the Gutenberg project is included on the disc.  A few files
were left out because they had USA-only restrictions.

All the internet RFCs and IENs are also included.  I was going to put them on
a seperate technical document disc, but it will be a while before I get
around to finishing that disc and a lot of people have been asking for
them, so they are included on this disc.

A complete index of the disc is available by anonymous ftp from
cdrom.com (192.153.46.254) in the file /pub/cdroms/desktop/00_index.txt.

This disc took a lot longer than expected to finish.  I apologize to all
the people that were expecting it earlier in the summer.  But we were
able to add a lot more books than we originally planned for, so I hope
it was worth the wait.

The price is $39.95.  Shipping and handling is $5 (per order, not per disc)
for US/Can/Mex, and $10 for airmail overseas.  If you live in California,
please add sales tax.  You can send a check or money order to

    Walnut Creek CDROM
    1547 Palos Verdes, Suite 260
    Walnut Creek, CA  94596
    USA

Or you can order by MasterCard/ Visa.  If you do not trust email with
your credit card number, you can call

    +1 800 786-9907
    +1 510 947-5996
    +1 510 947-1644 FAX

I will send a free disc to anybody that has contributed any etexts.
This includes anyone that has contributed any etexts to the Gutenberg
project, anyone that wrote any of the the RFC's, and anyone that created
any other etexts included on the disc.  If you want a free disc please
send me the name of the file you created and a complete mailing address.

Here is a list of other CD-ROMs available:

Simtel20 MSDOS CD-ROM, 550 Meg, June 1992                       $24.95
CICA MicroSoft Windows CD-ROM, 140 Meg, July 92                 $24.95
Usenet Source Code CD-ROM, 600 Meg, March 1992		        $39.95
Garbo MSDOS/MAC CD-ROM, 250 Meg MSDOS, 150 Meg Mac, May 92      $24.95
X11R5 and GNU source w/ sparc binaries, Feb 1992                $39.95
AB20 Amiga CD-ROM, May 1992 (Doesn't work on CDTV)              $24.95
OS/2 Archives CD-ROM, hobbes & novell.com archives May 1992     $24.95
Gifs Galore CD-ROM, 6000 images, 650 Meg, Aug 1992              $24.95
Caddies                                                          $4.95

	-bob