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Milestones: 10 Millionth Record Added to WorldCat By an Open Access Publisher in Croatia
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|From an OCLC Announcement: A record for a book accessible online, titled Task-oriented and Purposeful Robot-Assisted Therapy, marked the 10 millionth record added to WorldCat via the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. The record was harvested into WorldCat by staff at InTech, an open access publisher located in Rijeka, Croatia. [Clip] The WorldCat record links to […]
From Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. now sells 105 books for its Kindle electronic-readers for every 100 printed books. Sales of the e-books for the Kindle, introduced in 2007, surpassed hardcover titles in July 2010, and overtook paperbacks six months later, the Seattle-based company said today in a statement. “We had high hopes that this would happen […]
From a Project Gutenberg News Post by Michael Hart (Founder of Project G Almost 40 Years Ago): Today, just six weeks after Project Gutenberg posted its 40,000th internally created book, the 30,000th English ebook has now been placed online: The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, by Archibald Henry Sayce. [Clip] Project Gutenberg started the […]