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Apple Pages ’09 now supports Epub export

August 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software news

Apple’s word processing app Pages has been updated so you can now save your document in Epub and PDF. This means that Apple just added an export option to Pages that Open Office has had since the middle of last year. For more details you should visit the Pages support page, or go over to [...]

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The British Libary announces plans to digitize 40m newspaper pages in 10 years

May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects

From the announcement: Spanning three centuries and including 52,000 local, regional, national and international titles, the British Library holds one of the world’s finest collections of newspapers. Each year the Newspaper Library at Colindale is used by 30,000 researchers in subjects ranging from family history and genealogy to sports statistics, politics and industrial history. This [...]

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JISC adds 1m new pages to Online Repository

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects

From the announcement: Freely accessible to UK colleges and universities, the latest addition of one million pages takes the total number of pages of 19th century newspapers available online1 to over three million. Alastair Dunning, programme manager at JISC, says: “In a time when print newspapers are under threat, the British Library resource provides a [...]

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