Borders opens bookshelves to digital services
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.  - When you walk through the doors of Borders' new concept store, the place feels familiar. As with any big-box bookstore, you'll find a coffee shop over here and some strategically placed leather chairs over there. And, of course, lots of books. But follow the table of books snaking off to the right, and you'll come face-to-face with Borders' newest retail strategy: a digital center where you can download music or books, burn CDs, research family histories, print pictures and order leather-bound books crammed with family photos - with help from clerks who know how to do those sorts of things and won't embarrass you if you don't.
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A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.
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The Motley Fool - The booksellers have been reporting earnings this week, and it seems Borders Group (NYSE: BGP - News) might face the biggest competitive challenges of them all, considering its quarterly loss widened on a year-over-year basis.
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Official records of some of Britain's most famous immigrants are to made available online.
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Abebooks.com, one of the world's most   visited online book retailers, is trying to develop a more   sophisticated way to recommend titles from its catalog of 100   million books to match tools available to music fans.
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A new archival service will extend the company's growing influence.
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If you want proof that a cultural divide separates Europe and America, the book business is a place to start.
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Students take note - endless journeys to the library could become a thing of the past thanks to a new multimillion-pound scheme to make classic texts available at the click of a mouse.
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Two new products are designed to make it easier for businesses to connect storage computers across long distances.
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Readers can judge books by looking inside their covers, HarperCollins Publishers announced, with the launch of a new website service allowing them to sample book content online.
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New products will include a free Acrobat reader with reviewing capabilities.
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Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing, one of the world's leading providers of electronic business and company information to the worldwide financial community, announced that it has opened an office in Bahrain.
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Microsoft will provide the technology that allows visitors to the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC) to first take a virtual tour of historic documents and map out what exhibits they want to see, the two organizations announced Thursday.The project will include the Myloc.gov Web site, to be launched in April, linked to information kiosks at the LOC&#39;s Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C. Interactive galleries will allow visitors to the Myloc.gov site to view and sometimes interact with items such as a rough draft of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the Gutenberg Bible, and a 1507 map that first used the word &quot;America.&quot;The new technology is designed to assist people who want to visit the library in person, said John Sampson, director of federal government affairs at Microsoft. Visitors to the Web site will be able to bookmark areas of interest, then use a bar code at the LOC&#39;s information kiosks that will point them to more information in person, he said. Visitors both online and on-site can also engage in a game called Knowledge Quest that sends them searching for clues in the LOC&#39;s art and artifacts, Microsoft said.The library has thought hard about how to bridge the online experience with an in-person visit. Sampson said. The on-site kiosks will help visitors build a custom tour of the library, he said.The library&#39;s plan is to cycle online exhibits in and out but gradually make more information available online, Sampson said. &quot;What they&#39;ve realized is they have a vast collection of amazing, historic artifacts, documents and manuscripts that would take far too long to put on display,&quot; he said. &quot;To say they have great content ... is almost an understatement. It&#39;s the nation&#39;s most prized treasures.&quot;Microsoft is donating software, funding, and training to the project, and in return, the company gets to work with one of the premier libraries in the world, Sampson said.&quot;For us, it&#39;s a unique showcase to show the breadth and the depth of the technology,&quot; said Keith Hurwitz, a platform strategy advisor at Microsoft.Microsoft is helping put the library&#39;s &quot;unparalleled educational resources literally at the fingertips of students and lifelong learners alike, both on site at the Library of Congress and virtually through the Web,&quot; Librarian of Congress James Billington said in a statement. &quot;The Library of Congress and the causes of inspiration and creativity will benefit immensely from this act of generosity and expertise.&quot;Interactive presentation software for kiosks will run on Windows Vista and its Web equivalent, built using Microsoft Silverlight. The project will also use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web content management software.The library&#39;s Exploring the Early Americas&quot; exhibition, which opened Dec. 13, offers a sampling of the new experience.
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The book retailer looks a little pricey at the moment.
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Western Digital has boosted the capacity of its My Book line of external drives.
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Allowing consumers to search the content of books online could shift the balance of power between companies that produce books and those that sell them.
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[World News]: London, Dec 15 : Rare and contemporary works from the libraries of five of the world&#39;s most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google and made available online.