Today’s news: rare book sales from Abe Books; recommendations from the IFLA – ISBD Review Group; a small publisher and Amazon; UK readers and digital news sources; and the Science archive now available in Russia.
Abe Books Made $220K from 10 Rare Books
“Book dealer AbeBooks brought in $220,330 from the sales of 10 books alone. The bookseller sold Karl Marx’s Das Kapital in November for $51,739. A signed first edition of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird fetched $25,000.”
Recommendations Approved: Initial Project of ISBD/XML Study Group
“IFLA Cataloguing Section’s ISBD Review Group approved the recommendations from its Material Designation Study Group to develop an XML Schema for the ISBD. This has been considered important for the ISBD Updating Project from the aspect of researching into the possibilities of reviewing ISBD concepts and the standard itself by the application of web technologies to the field such as building an ISBD-XML schema, and of evolving the standard into a tool open to Semantic Web technologies and services.”
Small publisher says Amazon helped it to survive and prosper
TeleRead.com picks up on this editorial from Publishers Weekly by Stephen Roxburgh, president and publisher of Namelos, LLC. where he points to Amazon as “one of our most important customers and a publishing partner through its Kindle Publishing Program.” Mr. Roxburgh says that Amazon “is crucial to our success. And I, for one, applaud the innovation and transformation Amazon has brought to the publishing world.”
Research: Internet Is UK’s No. 2 News Source, But Only 3.8 Percent Pay
According to this survey 68 percent of UK consumers are “opting for their news from online sites.. However, the bad news for publishers hoping to bolster profits via digital news services, only 3.8% are will to pay for it. There is a slight silver lining; “on mobile, however, that rises to nine percent. Tablets are so far the most promising medium of all, with 19 percent of users paying for news.”
“The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announces that the Russian Ministry of Education and Science has selected Science Classic, the digital archives of Science (1880–1996), as the first acquisition in a major project to provide national access to scientific archives.”
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