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  Darwin’s personal library put online

  1828 readersNotes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first time. Darwin’s personal scientific library, the majority of which is held at Cambridge University Library, has been digitised in a collaborative effort involving Cambridge, the Darwin Manuscripts Project at the American Museum

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  “Print is Still Our Core Business,” says Orion CEO at 20th Anniversary Party

  797 readersBy Roger Tagholm (l to r) Peter Roche (Orion CEO), Ian Rankin, Malcolm Edward The UK’s Orion Group hosted a double celebration in London this week since its annual Authors Reception was also the publisher’s 20th anniversary bash.  Orion’s founder, Anthony Cheetham, was among guests in the splendid, cavernous entrance hall of the Natural History Museum where

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  Sharjah Celebrates 30 Years of ‘Love of the Written Word’

  1476 readersA new professional program and $300,000 to support translations marked 30 years of commitment to reading and literacy at the Sharjah International Book Fair. By Hannah Johnson SHARJAH, UAE: “The Sharjah International Book Fair is a fair for the community,” said Sheikha Bodour al Qasimi, while discussing this year’s event with Publishing Perespectives, an invited guest of

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  Discover Yale Digital Commons

  1283 readersThat’s the title of the home search page of Yale’s Cross Collection Discovery.  Here’s what they say about it: Cross Collection Discovery (CCD) provides a way to search across Yale’s collections of art, natural history, books, and maps, as well as photos, audio, and video documenting people, places, and events that form part of Yale’s institutional

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  Natural History Museum (UK) launches its first ebook

  969 readers From The Bookseller: The Natural History Museum has launched its first e-book for the iPad, created from the most expensive book ever sold. The e-book of The Birds of America by John James Audubon features all 435 illustration plates of the original. The NHM will release a resized printed edition of the 19th-century classic in

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  Sharjah IBBY Fund Launched with 1 Million Swiss Francs

  893 readersDuring last week’s Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, the UAE Board on Books for Young People (UAEBBY) and the International Board on Book for Young People (IBBY) launched the Sharjah IBBY Fund, a government-funded program intended to promote reading among children, provide children with access to books, and train professionals who work in reading-related fields. According to

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  Let every book be published digitally. Those found worthy may deserve another publication in print, by John Miedema

  1207 readers The book is on fire. Fire can be a blaze that destroys or it can be a light to read by, depending on how you care for its energy. The history of libraries is a story of fire. The Library of Alexandria in ancient Egypt may have been burned by Arab invaders or

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  Guggenheim Museum Getting Into eBooks

  1769 readersThe Guggenheim Museum is putting out eBooks. The museum also claims to be putting out  ”the first exhibition catalogue to be published by a museum in an e-book format.” The museum is selling eBooks including a title from the current exhibition called Maurizio Cattelan: All and a new edition of the 1970 children’s book I’d Like The Goo-gen-heim.

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  UK’s JISC Launches Collection Containing 65,000 19th Century Books Digitized from British Library Collection

  1333 readers From JISC Collections: The British Library and JISC eCollections have announced the launch of JISC Historic Books, a new website developed by Mimas for researchers and students that includes recently digitised editions of more than 65,000 books from the British Library’s extensive 19th century collections. Amounting to more than 25 million pages, the resource spans subject areas

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  Sharjah: What Happens When Rulers Take Reading Seriously

  737 readersBy Roger Tagholm SHARJAH: Is the Sharjah an argument in favor of state intervention in the book trade? The 31st Sharjah International Book Fair(SIBF) got underway last week, beneath the heat of the UAE sun, and as the 140-odd international publishers, agents, rights directors and scouts invited as part of the fair’s greatly expanded professional program