JTSA Press is currently in the process of transferring many of its titles to digital format. There is also a project underway to digitize many of the titles in Hebrew that it publishes in Israel. See their Ebook store (here) for titles available in digital format. Many of the print books are available from Dan [...]
NU Press to buy titles from Jewish book society: LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska Press will purchase the nearly 250-title inventory of the Jewish Publication Society, which bills itself as the oldest publisher of Jewish books in the United States. The Nebraska board of regents approved the $610,000 purchase at its Friday meeting, [...]
The National Library of Israel has published statistics about books deposited in the library in 2010. Here are some highlights: During 2010, 7,339 new Israeli titles were registered by the Legal Deposit Department of the National Library: 6,285 books, 725 new periodicals, and 329 non-print titles, such as CDs and cassettes. In addition, some 16,500 [...]
Bookshelf Porn presents pictures of rooms that are filled with bookshelves. What a website. (hat tip) For anyone who is looking to add a book to their bookshelf, The Book on the Bookshelf is recommended.
See here for the winners and finalists.
The Becker-Posner Blog debates the future of the bookstore. Their analysis is heavy on the economic-side of the question, and not very Anthony Graftonish. From Gary Becker. The decline of bookstores, theatres, laundries, and other retail industries with physical facilities illustrates a trend that runs counter to older ideas about the effects of economic development. [...]
Andrew Pettegree, the author of The Book in the Renaissance, is interviewed here. (hat tip) See here for a review of the book. I wonder how the following comments of his relate to Hebrew printing. Q: What did you find most interesting of the trends that you uncovered in your study of the early book [...]
According to this post at the Inside Google Books blog, 129,864,880 is the estimated number of books in the world as of the other day.
According to this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, (hat tip) bibliographers are not in such high-demand these days in institutions of higher education and academia. Lovers of the Hebrew manuscript and book should be grateful that frameworks such as the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts and the Hebrew Palaeography Project exist. May their [...]
The Seforim Blog has posted a list of hard-to-find and out-of-print books for sale. This is only the first list, with more to come. It includes a number of titles from Magnes Press.
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