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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Oxford English Dictionary ‘will not be printed again’

Daily Telegraph says:

The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world's most definitive work on the language, will never be printed because of the impact of the internet on book sales.

Read the article here from Book News: Fiction and non-fiction reviews, latest news, releases, features, interviews and authors.

Posted on 31 Aug 2010 around 8pm • Tagged with: Books | Publishing

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Monday, February 23, 2009

Wiki Books on Demand

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PediaBooks are now offering a service whereby Wiki pages (could be WikiPedia) can be gathered together and printed (POD) as a book.

The book is printed POD by Lightning Source. Interesting that the book does not have an ISBN, because, I suppose this is a one-off unique item. Having said that, though, they do have a catalog of shared books, so you are likely to buy something that others have bought too.

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Posted on 23 Feb 2009 around 2pm • Tagged with: Books | Publishing | Web Technology

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Announcing the Open Library

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Aaron Swartz has announced a demo of the Open Library Project. I really admire this idea and wish him and the team the very best of luck with it. The technology looks really good and the team includes designer Rebecca Malamud who’s work I have admired before at MappaMundi.net

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Posted on 30 Jul 2007 around 10pm • Tagged with: Books | Noticed | Publishing | Reading

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

SecondLife Books

Me, I am Page Raymaker.

You might find me for a chat in SecondLife. Today I am visiting Book Island owned by Selina Greene. Here is the SLURL.

Posted on 13 May 2007 around 4pm • Tagged with: Books | Noticed | Offsite Links

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Flipping Hannibal Pages

Martyn Daniels pointed us towards the Random House promotion of the new Dr Hannibal Lecter novel from Thomas Harris.

Random House have set up a dedicated web site for the book here and after a creeping about in a virtual space you can get a sample of the book. Don’t get too excited though. We don’t think this is as good as it sounds. Here is Martyn Daniels site, where we first observed this topic.

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Posted on 09 Jan 2007 around 9pm • Tagged with: Books | Publishing

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