Sentences with phrase «books digitised»

These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain.

In this regard, the announcement this week that New Zealand copyright collective Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) will lead the charge to get New Zealand books digitised and licensed to groups such as libraries, booksellers and others, couldn't come soon enough.

From the more than 15 million books digitised to date, Aiden, Michel and colleagues from Google and Harvard selected the 5.2 million with the most reliable data — a total of more than 500 billion words.

Not exact matches

Now, schools can make the best of both worlds, as technology has spearheaded collaborations between more traditional resources, for example, books have developed into ebooks and the textbook has become digitised.

As a result even large documents and bound books can be easily digitised.

We are seeing printing opening doors to scanning books without hassle and digitising 3D objects such as school kids artwork.

The V5C log book is one of the last paper bastions in an increasingly digitised motoring world: here's what you need to know

The site also includes sections for Playstation games and for music downloads, a good indication that to the big media companies, digitised books will be just another medium to add to the catalogue.

I am considering digitising my engineering reference books so that I can keep them all in one place, whether I am in the office, or visiting customers.

The British Library has teemed up with Microsoft and the great thing is that they are going to be concentrating on digitising public domain books;

Academic books is one field in Germany to have embraced the ebook earlier, driven by demands from libraries for titles to be digitised, and is not far behind the US market, an academic publisher said here.

In particular they seem to have failed utterly to grasp the importance of digitising back list as fast as they can — which has left the ebook offering to the public woefully short of the extent and quality of work that people love about books, and makes them preferable to film or music.

Japanese publishers, already facing falling paper book sales, have so far been reluctant to digitise their books for fear that e-books could kill physical sales.

He believes that print books will continue to flourish in fiction and entertainment categories, but that non-fiction titles focused on knowledge and learning will be uniformly digitised.

Similarly, one of the first books I read and digitised was The Weight of Mercy, which, if published in another country, might sell better as «The Game of Mercy».

If the latter, how should you go about choosing which books to digitise?

Key European stakeholders have approved a «ground - breaking» set of principles for digitising and making publicly available out - of - print books and journals.

Dubbed the 1000 Great New Zealand eBooks, the idea is to provide a focus for the industry's own move to digitising books, to provide a platform for a joint marketing programme, and to generate public interest in e-reading.

Many national libraries digitise their collections for conservation reasons or even to grant access to them, but those are (older) books that are already in the public domain.

Copyright Licensing Ltd has formed a venture to digitise New Zealand books and make them available to the New Zealand reading public on new digital reading devices, including ebook readers and smartphones, Apple's iPhone and the forthcoming Google Android phones.

Google Editions is separate from the Google Book Search programme which has landed Google in hot water through its attempt to digitise millions of the world's books without rightsholder permission.

Now many are easily available: Harlequin has digitised more than 13,000 of its books.

In this dynamic climate some libraries are starting to dip their toe into publishing too, digitising and distributing their own books to patrons as well as to other libraries.

The professional books sector is the most heavily - digitised area of the book publishing market, with e-books and other digital products proving to be much more practical for professional users than the print alternatives.

Consumers have a much higher expectation of digital picture books, and their children do too, so simple facsimiles probably won't satisfy them — interactivity and novelty will need to be explored as we digitise.

Open for browsing during gallery hours, our Bookshop stocks a range of thought provoking photographic, arts and social sciences titles, while our Reading Room provides welcoming space for study and research, with access to an extensive collection of books and reference materials, and a selection of almost 2,000 images from our archive has been digitised and made available for browsing on an iMac.

The 1906 Eversleigh Fahrenheit temperature recordings have been digitised (Excel 49kb) and this field book is typical of whole degree rounding proportions at most Australian weather stations in the Fahrenheit era.

These pdfs are available to everyone, and if you search SOLO, the Bodleian catalogue, for a 19th century book, there may be an option under the title for the «digitised version», which will open up the pdf.

Google and the Big Brain talks about Google's efforts to digitise the world's books.

It's possibly a result of not allowing books to be borrowed that there is still such an amazing, huge, and intact collection which can be digitised... The material that is being digitised here at Oxford is from the 19th century, pre 1870; it has included some 15,000 volumes from the law collection.