RE: (Fwd) (Fwd) Edupage, 4 June 1998 (fwd)

[Henry Grunder <hgrunder@xxxxxxxx>]

Interesting. Swap you "Octavo":
"Revitalizing Rare Books with PDF. Octavo Creates Digital 
Versions of Classic Texts
http://www.octavo.com
I would like to hear reactions to their purple prose, 
possible dubious terminology ("Conservation Technology") & 
how, live text/word searchability aside, this might be 
considered a quantum leap superior - in the example of 
Shakespeare, Poems, 1640 - to a UM/ P&R STC microfilm.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Paula De Stefano [SMTP:destefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Monday, June 08, 1998 10.09 Uhr
To:	BIG11-L@xxxxxxxxxxx; padg@xxxxxxx
Subject:	(Fwd) (Fwd) Edupage, 4 June 1998 (fwd)

Dear Colleagues,

Have any of you heard of this service, or used it???

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ON-DEMAND PRINTING OF OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS
Lightning Print, a division of the Ingram book wholesaling 
company in La
Vergne, Tenn., says that "books really never have to go out 
of print
again."  Using IBM printing equipment and software, 
Lighning Print will,
for $100-150, set the book up in a digital library, 
allowing booksellers to
order one or more copies at costs expected to be in the 
range of $15-20 for
a 300-page softcover book.  (New York Times 4 Jun 98)
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Paula De Stefano
Head, Preservation Department
New York University Libraries
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Voice:  212/998-2563
Fax:    212/995-4583
Email:  paula.destefano@xxxxxxx