From the Premium Times and The Vanguard: A ‘win-win’ agreement with Norway’s national library system is expected to see Nigerian literature digitized.
Building the Digital Infrastructure Germany’s Educational Publishers Need
K.Lab Berlin’s Benjamin Wüstenhagen’s six years in the business have honed his viewpoint on Germany’s edtech development.
The Danish Digitization Debate and Educational Publishers’ Dilemma
‘We need to leave the old distinction between analog and digital behind,’ says a Danish educational publisher. But is the new approach working?
Russian Librarians Warn of Crisis in Library Consolidation Plans
Called an an effort to ‘optimize the work of all major libraries,’ Russia’s plan to merge digital collections of several libraries is seeing resistance.
India’s CinnamonTeal Publishing and the Revival of Goa’s Literary Past
Fighting time and a climate in which old documents deteriorate, a publishing house in Goa contributes to the preservation of early Asian texts.
Princeton’s Cotsen Library Digitizes Classic Soviet Children’s Books
Princeton University Library has digitized 47 Russian children’s books as part of its Cotsen Children’s Library of international literature for young readers.
‘A Unique Market in Europe’: Poland’s Marcin Skrabka
A study in contrasts, Poland’s market is quick to respond to technology even while losing readership. Consultant Marcin Skrabka—who speaks on October 18 as Poland’s visionary in Frankfurt Book Fair’s The Markets: Global Publishing Summit—sees opportunity amid the challenges.
‘To Solve This Engagement Problem’: Lessons from Poland’s Multimedia
Two storytelling projects from Poland merge book publishing with state-of-the-art technology and explore both cross-media and regional boundaries.
On Spanish Poetry Publishers in the Digital Era
Digital technology and the internet allows Spanish poetry publishers to cut costs, take risks, support new authors, and ultimately reach more readers.
Digitization First: Russia’s Moscow and St. Petersburg Libraries
The Russian government has embarked on a plan to merge the collections of the St. Petersburg and Moscow State Libraries.