Less than two years after DC Comics began selling digital versions of its own comics on the same day as print, the superhero publisher announced two new digital comics formats: DC2, which will feature “dynamic artwork” that unfolds as the reader taps on the screen, and DC2 Multiverse, a choose-your-own-path format that will allow users to make decisions at key points that will unlock different storylines.
via DC Announces Choose-Your-Own-Path Digital Comics | Underwire | Wired.com.
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Google Framed As Book Stealer Bent On Data Domination In New Documentary | TechCrunch
Quotable: “From the second it starts, director Ben Lewis’ opinion is clear: Google Books is as an insidious plot for data domination. See, Google didn’t just want to make a universally accessible library. It wanted to use all the knowledge to improve its search and artificial intelligence projects.”
“He originally bought most of the books he read, and the attic is still filled with boxes of old books, however for the past 15-20 years he’s mostly loaned the books from the library. My Dad loved our local library, the James V Brown Library, where all of the librarians knew his name, and he would leave there with a bag full of books about once a week. For the past year or two, he’d also tried reading ebooks on a Tablet I bought for him for Christmas, and while he loved downloading all of the free indie Kindle books he could get his hands on, he still preferred a good hardcover book.” See full article here: Brandon Zarzyczny: My Dad And His 10,496 Book Reviews | Huffington Post Books.
What a great story! I too keep track of the books I have read within both a database called Bookpedia (print) and Calibre (digital) on my Mac (now I’m thinking I should combine them into one). Not with as much detailed information as Mr. Craig Zarzyczny though! I also used to post reviews to GoodReads, LibraryThing and ChaptersIndigo Community. Reviewing was taking the enjoyment out of reading, so I slowed down around 2 years ago.
According to old stereotypes, it shouldn’t work—serious librarians should want nothing to do with the raucous, pulp world of comics—and for a long time it didn’t. But over the past decade, the graphic novel genre has become one of the fastest-growing at libraries of all kinds, as a new generation of librarians adopts the category as a means to energize collections and boost circulation and patronage via How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library | Publishers Weekly.
This video, directed by Richard Dadd and Dan Fryer of British creative studio The Bakery, tells the story of a boy who stumbles upon the last remaining bookshop. via What Would It Be Like if Book Stores Died Out Completely? | Gizmodo.
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See article source: ALA’s State of America’s Libraries Report 2013, specifically, the Intellectual Freedom section from the report.
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Closure of fisheries’ libraries called ‘a ‘disaster’ for science | Canada.com
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“Seven DFO libraries across Canada are to close by the fall, including two that have been amassing books and technical reports on the aquatic realm for more than a century.”
“It is information destruction unworthy of a democracy,” said Peter Wells, an ocean pollution expert at Dalhousie University in Halifax, who describes the closing of the libraries as a “national tragedy.”
“It will likely be a decade or more before all DFO’s technical reports are all digitized and available online, the librarian said. But most of the reference books and materials in the DFO libraries – like Russia’s fishing monograms – cannot be digitized by the department because of copyright restrictions.”
“Wells see the library closures as more evidence of the way the federal government is “eviscerating” aquatic science by cutting jobs and eliminating programs, labs and services. “Libraries cannot simply be replaced by digitized collections,” he said.”
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