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Flat World Knowledge raised $15m funding for their open textbook platform

January 20th, 2011 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Flat World Knowledge, the largest publisher of free and open college textbooks for students worldwide, today announced it has secured $15 million in Series B funding led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, a leading international media company, and Bessemer Venture Partners, a top [...]

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KB e-Depot reaches milestone: 15m items in digitaal repository

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects

The KB, national library of the Netherlands, has announced that they’ve archived 15 million digital documents. The e-Depot was started seven years ago with the goal of  securing scientific articles so that information will remain accessible after the original is lost. They also reported that the e-Depot is 15 terabytes in size. press release (Dutch)

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