British Library Digitizes More Historical Manuscripts 24 March 2014 by Sovan Mandal 0 Comments After the successful digital makeover to the Mewar Ramayana, the British Library plans to apply that treatment to other historical documents. It took three years for the British Library to create the digital copies of the Mewar Ramayana, considered to be one of the best illustrated manuscripts of the great Hindu epic. Marina Chellini, curator of North Indian languages at the … [Read more...] about British Library Digitizes More Historical Manuscripts
Can Digitization Go Too Far? 11 February 2014 by Mercy Pilkington 0 Comments A massive digitization project involving the cooperation of two governments and the crusading efforts by several individual stakeholders led to the donation of the Hemingway Collection to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in 2008. This donation included digitized editions of papers that had been stored in the basement of Hemingway's farm house in Cuba, papers that even … [Read more...] about Can Digitization Go Too Far?
Norway’s Answer to eBook Lending: Free Books 16 January 2014 by Mercy Pilkington 1 Comment As US libraries and subscription models struggle with publishers and rights holders on how to ensure that revenue reaches the right people under lending models, the National Library of Norway seems to have hit on a model that works for them: just give the books away online, and pay the publishers yourself. According to an article in the Telegraph, over 135,000 books will be … [Read more...] about Norway’s Answer to eBook Lending: Free Books
The Battle is Not Over for Google’s Digitization Project 2 January 2014 by Mercy Pilkington 0 Comments Eight years of legal battles to halt Google's digitization project have not produced the results that some organizations have wanted, and therefore, the litigation will continue. Only a matter of weeks ago, US Circuit Judge Denny Chin ruled that Google's massive digitization project fell within the reasonable bounds of copyright and fair use, throwing out the copyright … [Read more...] about The Battle is Not Over for Google’s Digitization Project
Digitization of 550-Year-Old Bible Sparks Conversation About Publishing 15 December 2013 by Mercy Pilkington 3 Comments Sometimes, the real news on the internet happens in the comments' section, all trolls and grammatically incorrect ugliness aside. A post that shared photos of a digitized Gutenberg Bible gave readers a lot of background information into the historical implications of the book itself, as well as an interesting and educated peek into the evolution of language and print. While … [Read more...] about Digitization of 550-Year-Old Bible Sparks Conversation About Publishing
Singapore Digitizing 50 Years of Tamil Literature 16 October 2013 by Sovan Mandal 0 Comments Singapore has initiated the Tamil Digital Heritage Project to digitize all works of local Tamil authors. The project will cover all the literary works from 1965 till 2015 and is being targeted for completion before the nation gets to celebrate its 50th Independence Day on August 4th. The project will involve the active participation of the National Library Board, National … [Read more...] about Singapore Digitizing 50 Years of Tamil Literature
How to Build Your Own Book Scanner…But Should You? 15 February 2013 by Mercy Pilkington 1 Comment A very interesting war is being waged on books. This time it isn't about publishers and the agency model or the stigma behind self-publishing. This war is actually about the right and wrong of consuming a book that a reader already owns. Format shifting, as it's being called by some, is taking one copyrighted item that has already been purchased and reformatting it to use … [Read more...] about How to Build Your Own Book Scanner…But Should You?
Vook Partners with Diversion Books to Digitize Original Titles, Backlists 23 January 2013 by Mercy Pilkington 0 Comments eBook creation platform Vook, who was recently honored with two innovation awards at this year's Digital Book World conference, announced today that it will be adding Diversion Books to its growing list of companies with whom it partners to create ebook from existing or original titles. In the case of Diversion, Vook will be digitizing both. Diversion Books is well-known for … [Read more...] about Vook Partners with Diversion Books to Digitize Original Titles, Backlists
Print-to-Digital Membership from 1DollarScan 9 January 2013 by Mercy Pilkington 1 Comment 1DollarScan, a cost-effective digital scanning service that recently announced its integration with EverNote, as the name implies, announced yesterday its newly unveiled membership service plan for users with high-volume digitization needs. While most users with a small amount of content to transform from print edition to PDF would find the standard one-document price of one … [Read more...] about Print-to-Digital Membership from 1DollarScan
Digital Archives: Epistles of St. Paul Papyrus Now on iPad 7 January 2013 by 0 Comments The University of Michigan's most famous papyrus is now available to users on the iPhone or iPad. High-resolution images of the third-century codex, which is the oldest known copy of the Letters of St. Paul, can be flipped through like the pages of a book. The app includes a translation from Greek to English, either word-by-word or by the page, along with annotations which … [Read more...] about Digital Archives: Epistles of St. Paul Papyrus Now on iPad
