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Thursday, November 03, 2011
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EPUB 3 Becomes Final IDPF Specification—Poised to Unleash an Econtent Revolution
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by Paula J. Hane
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If you think that developments in ebooks and the e-reading experience have been hitting at a fast pace, get ready for it to get really exciting. A new specification has been approved that should accelerate the progress toward richer experiences. On Oct. 11, 2011, at Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) announced the completion of a major revision to EPUB, which has become the global standard interchange and delivery format for ebooks and other digital publications. The IDPF membership unanimously voted to elevate EPUB 3 to a final IDPF Recommended Specification, which is publicly available at http://idpf.org/epub/30.
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Taylor & Francis Group Opens More Open Access
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Taylor & Francis Group, one of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks, and reference works, publishes content across the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. In 2012, it will initiate changes to its open access (OA) program that will include renaming the current iOpenAccess option Taylor & Francis Open Select, and it will continue to give authors and their sponsors the option of making their articles available on OA to all for a publication fee. It has also announced a new list of OA publications.
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The Wall Street Journal Debuts Ebook Best-Seller List Using Nielsen Data
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Showcasing the growing importance of digital books to consumers and the publishing industry alike, The Wall Street Journal expanded its relationship with Nielsen BookScan to add ebook sales reporting to its customized best-seller charts. The new charts, which debuted on Oct. 29, will appear weekly as part of "WSJ Weekend," the Journal's weekend edition, in print and on WSJ.com.
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Scientific American Archive Digitized From 1845
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Nature Publishing Group announced the complete digitization of Scientific American, the longest continually published magazine in the U.S. The archive, extending from Vol. 1, Issue 1, is available at www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive. The last segment of the digitized archive encompassed the inaugural issue in August 1845 through December 1909. To celebrate the completion of the archive, the 1845-1909 archive collection will be free to all to access from Nov. 1-30, 2011.
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Unified Information Access: Attivio Advances the Cause With AIE 3.0
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by Theresa Cramer
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The world of unified information access (UIA) has seen more than its share of change recently. Two of its biggest players, Endeca and Autonomy, were bought by Oracle and HP, respectively, leaving Attivio, Inc. and its Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) alone to concentrate on advancing UIA. With its most recent release, AIE 3.0, Attivio is forging ahead, hoping to help its customers build better applications to deal with often very specific information challenges.
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