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Mises Economics Blog: Mises Institute Print on DemandA libertarian institute offering dozens of out of print books for sale through Lulu. This is just how academia and libraries should be embracing print on demand technology.
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Mises Institute Print on Demand’s Storefront – Lulu.comThe list of books they are publishing. Worth noting, is that it kind of makes sense that libertarians are the ones who thought to embrace a free and open marketplace like Lulu. Librarians as supporters of free and open marketplaces of ideas should take note.
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Talis Platform news“Welcome to the first issue of Talis Platform News, a new way for you to find out how we are continuing to develop the Talis Platform, and to share your own stories on putting it to use in powering the Web applications that matter to you.”
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Submitting Written Testimony: Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress)“The Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control wants to know the viewpoints of all parties interested in this topic… written testimony will be accepted by the Working Group until July 31st, 2007.”
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Highly recommended. I think a lot of Web 2.0 types in the profession argue for much the same, only expanded to include contributions from our patrons.
Tag: print-on-demand
links for 2007-07-19
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The Society for Preservation of Hebrew Books & HebrewBooks.org (about page)
This non-profit has a mission to preserve all Torah Seforim ever printed. So far they have 11,000 classical Hebrew books available for download.
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PublishYourSefer.com – About Our Reprints Program
This company partners with HebrewBooks.org and Lulu.com (disclosure: I am an employee of Lulu) to offer on-demand reprinting for over 12,000 books. Wow! How is this done?…
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Lulu Web Services (Lulu API)
This is accomplished through the Lulu api, which “allows partners and outside developers to programmatically publish books.” Given that Lulu authors maintain full ownership of their books, why can’t libraries offer on-demand reprints of digitized books?
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PublishYourSefer’s sister site, They offer consulting and services for digitizing collections, using print on demand to “monetize” collections, Also have periodicals and books for purchase.
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[CODE4LIB] Using OpenID in libraries
A discussion. (Thanks Jay)