Microsoft abandons book digitisation programme
Microsoft is stopping its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and winding down its book-digitisation initiatives.
Microsoft is stopping its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and winding down its book-digitisation initiatives.
Ingram Digital announces a record month for its e-book fulfillment operations
Microsoft and Columbia University collaborate on an initiative to digitise books from Columbia University Libraries.
Columbia University has become the 27th library to join with Google Book Search to digitise works from its collections.
As the race to place the UK's library catalogues online gathers momentum, several hurdles could slow progress reports Rebecca Pool
Fragile medieval manuscripts detailing the Hundred Years' War between France and England have been digitised by The University of Sheffield and IT experts Tribal.
Keio University in Japan will partner with Google Book Search Library Project to digitise its library collection.
The British Library has selected Innodata Isogen as its development partner for its Publisher Digitisation Service.
ProQuest CSA and Oxford University Library Services will digitise more than 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.
Princeton University, USA, has joined the Google Library Project and will digitise approximately one million public-domain books from its collections.
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