The GPO announced today that they will be partnering with Google to sell government documents through the Google eBookstore. The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Google have entered a partnership to offer the public, for the first time, federal government titles in an e-book format. The titles will appear on Google’s recently launched Google [...]
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Google Ebookstore to sell ebooks from the US Government Printing Office – Um, what?
December 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news, opinion
Tags:ebooks·ebookstore·google·government·office·printing·sell·um
US Government says Piracy Statistics are a load of Bunk
April 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Back in 2008, the USA passed a new federal law called the PRO-IP Act (Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act). One of the things this law did was increase the penalties for counterfeiting and copyright infringement. But one of the lesser but still important parts of this law was where it ordered the [...]
Tags:bunk·government·load·piracy·statistics
ebrary Announces New SaaS for Government Documents
April 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the announcement: ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced the availability of Software as a Service (SaaS) for governments that makes information much more discoverable. With ebrary’s SaaS, agencies, institutes, and centers can transform any PDF documents into searchable, highly interactive databases that can be integrated into master sites, [...]
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