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The Digital Text Community (DTC) – A New Mailing List

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Forwarding a message sent by Jon Noring to various mailing lists — Ed I am announcing the start of “The Digital Text Community” (DTC), a public mailing list (on YahooGroups) devoted to serious discussion of digitizing “ink-on-paper” publications. The full group “charter” is found at the group’s “home page” at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/ DTC will be lightly […]

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Book People mailing list to close down!

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In the last few days, John Mark Ockerbloom announced that he is retiring the 10 year old Book People mailing list. I only caught the tail end of this run but the discussions on their were very good indeed. It seems that anyone who took part also thought the same. Here follows the post (in […]

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TEI v1.0 of P5 Released

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So it is finally here, TEI v1.0 of P5. Around six months ago I did some research into TEI and noted there was some big improvements over P4. If you need a mature XML based markup (perhaps for use as a Master File Format) I would certainly recommend having look at TEI P5. Here is […]

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MarketIntellNow: eBooks Poll

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Project Gutenberg recently received an email from MarketIntellNow, a Maryland-based, six-year old market research firm that focuses on nascent niches. They do a lot of polling using a methodology called “ANWO”, they then blog about the results at a high level (for free) while selling the resulting report in their eStore. Of late they have […]

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Speak The Speech – Shakespeare audio for free

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In response to our Shakespeare Actors Wanted request, where we are looking for volunteers actors to read the plays of Shakespeare, I had an email from a Peter Pressman who wrote to me about the Speak The Speech project. This is a group of volunteers who are wanting to make Shakespeare more universally accessible by […]

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LibriVox Produces its 1,000th Audio Recording!

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This is a fantastic feat for LibriVox who do great work on producing public domain audio recordings, much of which gets passed to the Project Gutenberg archives. Congratulations to everyone involved! Here is the official press release. LibriVox makes it to 1,000! LibriVox, the free audio book project has just cataloged its 1,000th book: “http://librivox.org/the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue-by-edgar-allen-poe/“, […]

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The Digital Library for Disabled Persons (BnH, France)

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Overview The Digital Library for Disabled Persons (BnH: Bibliotheque Numerique pour le Handicap) is a novel project compared to other current projects. For the first time, public service offers an adapted access to books, not an access to adapted books. This project was launched by the City of Boulogne-Billancourt, located near Paris, France. The project […]

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Combined PG projects hit the 25,000th post!

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This last week the combined PG projects hit the 25,000th eBook. The book that was posted is; Audio: The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon 22978 [Audio reading by Carl Vonnoh, III ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/9/7/22978 ] [Files: 22978-readme.txt; 22978-index.html; 22978-mp3.mp3; 22978-ogg.ogg; 22978-m4b.m4b; 22978-spx.spx ] Thanks to Carl Vonnoh, III and LibriVox (www.librivox.org) This was […]

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OPS 2.0 is now an official IDPF standard

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Nick Bogaty, Executive Director of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) has announced on the IDPF Forums that OPS 2.0 has been Elevated to Official IDPF Standard. The specifications can be found here and supporting documentation, implementation and tools on the entire .epub standard can be found on the IDPF Forums. Voting to elevate the […]

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Frankfurt Book Fair: Paper books in 50 years time?

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In an article from the Guardian website, Michelle Pauli talks about this years Frankfurt Book Fair and particularly about a survey of top book industry professionals. According to the survey almost a quarter of the participants believe that the good old paper book will still be with us in 50 years…and so they should. Here’s […]

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British Library to digitise 100,000 books

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More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitisation programme at the British Library.The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown as few were reprinted after first editions. The library believes online access to the titles will help teachers. “If there are […]

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