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FOSS wins again: Free and Open Source Communities comes through on 19th Century Newspapers (and Books and Periodicals...) - Internet Archive Blogs
I have never been more encouraged and thankful to Free and Open Source communities. Three months ago I posted a request for help with OCR’ing and processing 19th Century Newspapers and we got soooo many offers to help. Thank you, that was heart warming and concretely helpful– already based on these suggestions we are changing […]
PM Press Sells Ebooks to Internet Archive: "We want our books to be in every library" - Internet Archive Blogs
Like any commercial publisher, Ramsey Kanaan wants to make money and have as many people as possible read his books. But he says his company, PM Press, can do both by selling his books to the public and to libraries for lending – either in print or digitally. While most publishers only license ebooks to […]
The Legend of GayBlade - Internet Archive Blogs
The recently released video game documentary High Score includes a sequence in the third episode about a game called GayBlade. GayBlade is one of the first commercially-sold LGTBQ-themed video games, a role-playing romp for Windows and Macintosh occasionally referred to as “Dungeons and Drag Queens”. Once thought to have been lost, the game’s software was […]