Category: publishing

The virtual simian wordsmiths are close to doing so. They are 99.99 percent finished with Will’s entire catalog. The first work to be completed was the poem “A Lover’s Complaint”.

When it was published in 1961, Webster’s Third New International Dictionary “was widely denounced for what critics viewed as a lax admissions policy: it opened its columns to parvenus like ‘litterbug’ and ‘wise up,’ declined to condemn ‘ain’t,’ and illustrated its definitions with quotations from down-market sources like Ethel Merman and Betty Grable.”

The new exhibition “Treasures of the Bodleian” displays some of the library’s finest pieces – a Magna Carta, a 14th-century illustrated Travels of Marco Polo, a Sappho manuscript – that have been in storage. Visitors “will be invited to suggest which ones deserve to be given permanent display in [a] new gallery.”

“Copies of [his] 1996 work News of a Kidnapping have sold out from bookshops in Tehran this week after detained opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said the book’s description of Colombian kidnappings offers an accurate reflection of his life under house arrest.”

“Library e-books are already available on Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the Sony Reader, smartphones, laptops and other devices, but never on the Kindle, whose users had long complained that they were left out.”

“Websites like The Classical, Rookie, Thought Catalog, and Los Angeles Review of Books talk the talk of Silicon Alley start-ups, but are founded on an editorial ethos rather than a technological idea.”

“Workers said they were forced to endure brutal heat inside the sprawling warehouse and were pushed to work at a pace many could not sustain. Employees were frequently reprimanded regarding their productivity and threatened with termination.”

Ken Jennings: “In the early days of mapmaking, the seas were full of monsters. Close to port or in well-explored shipping lanes, stout frigates and galleons were depicted in full sail, but farther out, a remarkable diversity of sea serpents and other bizarre creatures ploughed the waves.”

As computer engineers rush to innovate, compete, and to scan “all the books in the world,” they have taken scant notice of the scholarly interest and involvement in the history of information management from ancient to modern times.

“Users have lately become both an asset to scholarship and an object of it. Most recently, a consortium of Illinois universities, known as ERIAL, conducted a series of anthropological studies of undergraduates that revealed, in excruciating detail, the ignorance of many students with regard to academic research processes, and how some professors and librarians have unwittingly perpetuated that ignorance.”