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  Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Gets a New, Contemporary Look

  899 readers From the press release: History is constantly changing, and now The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History is updating itself as well. Launched in 1998 as an online publication after more than 10 years in print, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History’s home, http://ech.case.edu, has added many new articles but has kept a similar look. That all changed when the encyclopedia, run

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  Golden Biker – A Superbly Funny “Road” Ebook

  2087 readersThe author of this wonderfully funny and surreal ebook (The Golden Biker) has made a short video in which he tells us the history of how this ebook came about. Some time ago I read and reviewed this truly funny and anarchic ebook, which I recommended to anyone who enjoys silly reading, as it is both

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  Random House releases interactive Little Golden Book apps

  2878 readersI have fond recollections of a particular series of children’s books with shiny foil spines. I expect anybody of my generation, those since, and probably several before do as well. Little Golden Books are some of the first books a child will ever read. Those books helped me win a prize for reading 104 books

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  Royal Society journal archve given permanent free access

  1834 readers From their website (blockquotes omitted).  This is really, really, really exciting: The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes thefirst ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago

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  90,000 USGS historical topographical maps now online

  1489 readers In July, we posted that the USGS was releasing more than 200,000 historical maps from to 1884 to 2006) online. Today the USGS announced that more than 90,000 hi-res digitized maps are available for download (free; GeoPDF) or as a scanned print (fee-based, $15/maps). Direct to Historical Topographic Map Collection Web Site and Search (via USGS) Direct

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  ‘Freedom’ Is Today’s Free eBook Of The Day

  785 readersToday is the 450th anniversary of St. Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow. Google is celebrating the anniversary with a Google Doodle of the building. The building is also featured in today’s Free eBook of the Day, Freedom by Mack Reynolds. The building shows up in this science-fiction story from 1961. Here is an excerpt:

• Another Popular Children’s Book Made Into App

  265 readers PRESS RELEASE: CHRONICLE BOOKS ANNOUNCES NEW APP FOR IPHONE, IPAD, IPOD TOUCHINSPIRED BY THE BEST-SELLING BOOK PRESS HERE San Francisco, California (April 11, 2012): Chronicle Books announced today a new app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch based on the international best-selling book, Press Here, by Hervé Tullet. The app offers unlimited hours of fun, including fifteen

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  StoryCode To Host 36-Hour Multimedia Writing “Hackathon” Competition

  983 readersIn the spirit of collaborative storytelling, non-profit StoryCode and the Film Society of Lincoln Center are hosting their first ever “story hackathon,” a 36-hour multimedia writing competition called Story Hack: Beta. During the event (which will take place this weekend at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center), writers, filmmakers, tech gurus, publishing

• Free Kindle Book out Today – history and recipes. News for Star Wars fans

  6131 readersA NEW TEMPORARILY-FREE, INFORMATIONAL BOOK TODAY that could be lost in the larger listings you can see in the links-box below. Their Last Suppers: Legends of History and Their Final Meals, by Andrew Caldwell, 14 customer reviews, 4-1/2 stars Andrews ...

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  40 Years of Project Gutenberg: A Mini Guide

  1519 readersYesterday marked the 40th Anniversary of Project Gutenberg, the collaborative digitization effort. In honor of this milestone, Mike Cook, the editor of the PG Newsletter, put together a 15 page mini-guide on the history of Project Gutenberg. The guide is only 15 pages long, and it only touches on the most important details. Mike also plans