India’s OMICS Publishing Group threatens scholarly critic with $1 billion lawsuit, jail time (Boing Boing) OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened… Read More

Digital Public Library Raises Questions of Ownership, Permanence, Access (Media Shift) Why would anyone want to attend a party to celebrate the opening of a virtual repository of metadata? A better question might be — what is a virtual repository… Read More

On day two of the Music Industry Metadata & Information Summit held in Los Angeles this week (run by NARM and DigitalMusic.org) Rob Weitzner laid it on the line in evoking the ever-elusive appeal of metadata. “Metadata is sexy,” he… Read More

New Features Kobo driver: Add support for showing 'Archived' books on the device. Also up the supported firmware version to 2.5.3. Driver for Blackberry 9790 Add a tweak to turn off the highlighting of the book count when using a… Read More

At Berlin's re:publica conference netizens showed their continuing enthusiasm for "the book" at talks dedicated to library digitization, metadata, and how the internet is changing literary writing.… Read More

The conference brochure copy captured the event very well: A never-before seen collection of high-level working sessions and talks about very practical issues, this 
two-day summit is designed to both inform newcomers about the importance of managing information 
through metadata… Read More

New Features Bulk metadata download: Allow reviewing of the downloaded metadata before it is applied FB2 Output: Write ISBN, pubdate, tags and publisher metadata when creating fb2 files Bug Fixes When reading metadata from EPUB 3 files, use the first… Read More

Join us Tuesday, May 21 at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM GMT for a free webcast sponsored by Virtusales Publishing Software where you will learn about the benefits of using a publishing system as a… Read More

New Features Virtual Libraries: Easily partition your large calibre library into smaller 'virtual' libraries Book details panel: Allow copying of links in the book details panel by right clicking on them. Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Aura… Read More

In the Arab World a dearth of metadata poses unique challenges to retailers and publishers alike and is slowing the development of online marketplaces.… Read More

Data. Traditional publishers have not used the word often when it comes to marketing. But newer publishing companies are using data in a way traditional publishing houses have not, several members of a panel at PaidContent Live said in New… Read More

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New Features Metadata download: Add two new sources for covers: Google Image Search and bigbooksearch.com. Content server: Allow specifying a reestriction to use for the server when embedding it as a WSGI app. Get Books: Add a plugin for the… Read More

[Press Release]Bowker® BookWire App Allows On-the-Go Access to Book Data…iPhone/iPad app connects buyers, librarians and sellers to metadata, retail prices and purchase ability anywhere, anytimeProQuest affiliate Bowker® is introducing a free mobile app that streamlines the search for Read More