Writ to the future

In October 2004, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin made a rare appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair to launch what for them must have seemed like an ambitious yet benign programme to scan the world’s published content and make it available to search online, under what was then called the “Google Print” programme. At the time, The Bookseller wrote: “The prospect is both thrilling and frightening for the book industry, raising a host of technical and theoretical issues.” Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As major universities like UC Berkeley abandon traditional book collections, the role of campus libraries is starting to look a little different from the good old days of an offline era. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chronicling the past, and the future

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[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ PC World | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette launches The Future Bookshelf for underrepresented writers

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[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London Digital 2017: The Future of Publishing Is...

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Guardian | 2017-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Fast Company | 2017-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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