Filed under: Odds and ends, Books Overlooked in much of the hype about the iPad announcement earlier in the week was a comment by Steve Jobs in the Keynote presentation where he mentioned that the iBooks app for iPad would take advantage of the popular EPUB format for electronic books. Since we're all going to get a lot more familiar with this format in the near future, we felt it would be a good time to provide our readers with more information about EPUB. EPUB is the same format used by th..   show all text

Dans le cadre du séminaire Digital Humanities : les transformations numériques du rapport aux savoirs, nous avons reçu le 16 décembre dernier Lou Burnard, qui est directeur de l’Information and support group des Oxford University Computing Services. Figure importante de la communauté TEI, il est co-éditeur des Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange et participe aux travaux du British National Corpus. Il travaille depuis cette année à temps partiel pour le TGE Adonis. Résumé de..   show all text

When I woke this morning at 5AM UK time, I discovered an in-box full of emails from people asking if I knew what was going on with Amazon. My books -- and all books from Macmillan and its many divisions, including Tor, my publisher -- had disappeared from the Amazon webstore in both physical and electronic editions. The New York Times quotes an industry insider as saying that Amazon pulled these books in retaliation for a demand from Macmillan to raise the price of Kindle books from $10 to $..   show all text

CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud.

By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today...