Are we really in danger of losing our history to the cloud?

If Google's vice president is to be believed we are in danger of losing an entire generation of information to the digital realm. Look to the history book, and you do just that -- look in a real, physical book. Pictorial histories can be found in photo albums. The works of Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys, and Charles Dickens are stored in real, tangible formats. But now just about everything is stored digitally. Photos are rarely, if ever printed; millions of words are published online each day on blogs, online newspapers, and message boards. These are all important social, political, literary,… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'

[ Betanews | 2015-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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San Diego’s Laotian community pushes for a place in California history books

Members of San Diego’s Laotian community have launched a statewide movement to get their history added to California textbooks. Lao Advocacy Organization San Diego, or LaoSD, formed last fall after then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that added lessons on the Vietnamese American refugee... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rock the Boat to mark Black History Month with new poetry title

Rock the Boat, part of Oneworld, has acquired a picture book that explores race and identity by US poets Irene Latham and Charles Waters, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nine Wins That Could Make History at the Oscars This Sunday

Though it’s certainly unusual for the Academy Awards to have no official host, the ceremony on Sunday won’t quite be a first—that honor belongs to the 1939 Oscars, which were similarly host-less. However, there are quite a few nominees this year who could find themselves in the history books if... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2019-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane snaps up palaeontologist Halliday's world history

Allen Lane will publish a “lyrical” history of the world by palaeontologist Thomas Halliday. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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History Press prepares for move with two new hires

The History Press is gearing up to relocate to Cheltenham as it enters an “important phase in growth” with two new hires to start the year.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wolfson History Prize appoints Midas

The Wolfson Foundation has appointed Midas Public Relations to manage PR and social media for the 2019 Wolfson History Prize, with the communications agency planning a "strategic, multi-channel campaign" for the £40,000 award. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man and the Prize: Reactions to the Booker Losing a Sponsor

The Man Group is ending its sponsorship of the UK's most prestigious literary prize, the Man Booker Prize, and complaints and criticism are now following. The post Man and the Prize: Reactions to the Booker Losing a Sponsor appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BuzzFeed loses 11 staff in Australia amid global job cuts

Reporter says every member of the news team received a letter about redundancies on Tuesday morningThe Australian arm of BuzzFeed will have to cut 11 staff as a global downsizing strategy targets 200 of the digital publisher’s international workforce.BuzzFeedOz news reporter Alice Workman said... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Graphic novels, poetry and art history make up SoA Translation Prizes shortlists

Graphic novels, poetry and art history make up some of the Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes shortlists for 2019, with 31 translations from seven languages up for awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Serpent's Tail wins Columbia academic's 'lavish' black history in five-way auction

Serpent’s Tail triumphed in a five-publisher auction, winning Columbia professor Saidiya Hartman’s "radical and lavish" history of young black women, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CUP signs 'landmark' global history of espionage

Cambridge University Press has commissioned a three-volume global history of intelligence from the ancient world to present-day cyber-espionage. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wildfire to publish 'history of lies' by Humans author Tom Phillips

Wildfire has acquired the second book of Humans author Tom Phillips, looking at "the ingenious ways, throughout history, we've managed to avoid telling the truth" Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Residents fear losing Capistrano Beach as storms chip away at their 'piece of paradise'

Walking along a battered stretch of her beloved beach, Sandie Iverson ticked off the destruction from recent storms. The boardwalk and a seawall collapsed. Palm trees were ripped from their roots. As winter rains alight on Southern California, Iverson couldn’t help but wonder what fresh calamity... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Heartbreaking' memoir of losing a family and gaining a dog to Hodder

Radio presenter, podcaster and journalist Emily Dean is publishing a "heartbreaking" memoir, called Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog, with Hodder. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rai and Patrice celebrate BAME figures from British history

Scholastic will next year publish a series of books about BAME protagonists from British history, with Bali Rai and Patrice Lawrence signed on to write the first titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With Nick Bell out, publishers lose a longtime Snapchat ally

Nick Bell, Snapchat's media matchmaker, is leaving the company, a departure that will be felt throughout the publishing world that worked closely with the executive. Bell was one of the early members of Snapchat's team of rising stars, joining the company five years ago when it needed to develop... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hurst to publish history on Afro-Europeans from Olivette Otele

Hurst Publishers has commissioned a history on Afro-Europeans from Professor Olivette Otele, the first black female professor of history in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Empire writer's history of 80s movies to Picador

Picador has acquired Empire writer Nick de Semlyen's history of '80s comedy movies, Wild and Crazy Guys. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fraser, Jasanoff and White shortlisted for Cundill History Prize

Three US historians are in the running for the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, the largest prize for a work of non-fiction in English, run by Canada's McGill University. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Scientologist is ‘Perfectly Clear’ on Dangers of the Church

In 'Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love,' Michelle LeClair recounts her long history inside the Church of Scientology, including her struggle with sexual orientation. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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