Draft2Digital’s ebook platform adds international library distribution. London’s Quarto partners with two new distributors for Iberoamericana.
British Library: Digitizing 200 Years of Early Bengali Books
From The Times of India: ‘Not available elsewhere in the world,’ two centuries of the British Library’s Bengali collection is being made available free.
Ireland’s Most Popular Books? OCLC’s WorldCat Can Offer Answers
From The Irish Times: A question of most popular reads becomes a chance to demonstrate what the OCLC’s ‘WorldCat’ international library system can do.
International Publishers Association Condemns Verona Mayor’s Books Censorship Agenda
‘The IPA and its Freedom to Publish Committee denounces’ Verona’s mayor’s plan to pull books promoting same-sex family contexts from libraries and schools.
The UK’s ‘Academic Book of the Future’ Project: Key Reports
Two new reports from the UK’s Academic Book of the Future call for stakeholders in academic publishing tto formalize their collaboration in order to make advancements and improvements.
Book Aid International Opens New Charitable Initiative in Rwanda
Close to 32,000 books have been shipped by Book Aid International to the African nation, the charity says, to bolster community libraries.
Norwegian Library Project To Result in Digitization of Nigerian Books
From the Premium Times and The Vanguard: A ‘win-win’ agreement with Norway’s national library system is expected to see Nigerian literature digitized.
A Sourcebooks Title Is OverDrive’s New International Big Library Read
A two-week international reading-and-discussion exercise, the Big Library Read is underway with more than 20,000 libraries in various parts of the world.
African Book Trust Raise Funds for South Africa’s Library Collections
With a goal of getting South African authors’ work to the country’s readers, the African Book Trust is working to donate bookjs to library collections.
WEBINAR: Automate Image-Checking in the Publishing Workflow
Sponsored post from Apex CoVantage: May 23rd webinar will showcase tools that streamline the process of uploading, formatting, and publishing images.