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  National Academies Press puts all 4,000 books online for free

  3496 readersFrom The Chronicle of Higher Education: Today the National Academies Press announced it would offer its entire PDF catalog of books for free, as files that can be downloaded by anyone. The press is the publishing arm of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, and publishes books

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  The National Academies to Release All Books Free as PDFs

  2678 readersThe National Academies Press announced today that it will soon be releasing the vast majority of currently published book as DRM-free PDFs. The titles include works released by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institu...

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  National Academies make all PDF publications available free

  2434 readersThe National Academies—consisting of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council—recently announced that all PDF versions of books published by its members will be available for free download, starting immediately. This includes more than 4000 existing books, plus any published in the future.

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  National Academies make all PDF publications available free

  1604 readersThe National Academies—consisting of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council—recently announced that all PDF versions of books published by its members will be available for free download, starting immediately. This includes more than 4000 existing books, plus any published in the future.

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  National Academies: all PDF books free to download. Also, Darwin’s Notes & Comments. made available.

  5467 readers The National Academies - National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council - have been offering, since 1994, "free downloads of most of our titles and of all titles to readers in the developing world." But effective June 2, they started offering, free of charge to all Web

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  BTB #271: Now At CCC, Michael Healy Looks To Future

  662 readersAs Copyright Clearance Center expands its business models to address a broader set of licensing issues facing its customers, Michael Healy, the newly-appointed Executive Director of Author & Publisher Relations is expected to be instrumental. In September 2011, Healy joined CCC after serving as Executive Director (Designate) for the Book Rights Registry, and previously, as

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  Richard Nash and Harold Augenbraum interviewed on WNYC

  1456 readersHarold Augenbraum, executive director of the National Book Foundation that presents the National Book Awards, discusses this year’s winner, a book published by a small independent press, and what that means for the future of publishing. Also, Richard Nash, who ran the New York indie press Soft Skull for almost a decade, weighs in on

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  App of the Week – National Geographic

  885 readersBy Teresa Demel Last month I shared National Geographic Kids, which uses Digital Publishing Suite to teach and communicate with its captive youth audience. Its core publication, featured this week, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society (NGS) and provides a rich media experience for readers. Published by one of the largest non-profit scientific

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  Princeton University Press gets into eshorts

  2364 readers From PaidContent: Princeton University Press appears to be the first university press to join the e-singles game. On November 9, the press will launch Princeton Shorts, a series of nonfiction e-singles consisting of selections from previously published books. The e-singles “stand alone well and which speak to either some current event or are

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  University presses see increase in ebook sales

  695 readers From the Daily Iowan: Authors want electronic publishing, and the University of Iowa Press is following with the trend. UI Press Director Jim McCoy said the press has approximately 800 books in print, with around 75 percent of those books digitized. Around 5 percent of total book sales is from e-books, he said, whereas two years ago,