Sunday, May 22

DePaul stocks video games for research

DePaul University is one of a growing number of university libraries housing video game collections for student research into game design, the school said. Other universities with collections include Illinois, Stanford and Michigan.

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Amazon's Kindle E-Books Outselling Paper Books

Amazon (says) its customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than print books.

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Google Abandons Master-plan to Archive the World's Newspapers

Google told partners in its News Archive project that it would cease accepting, scanning, and indexing microfilm and other archival material from newspapers, and was instead focusing its energies on "newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass, a platform that enables publishers to sell content and subscriptions directly from their own sites."

The five-year-old News Archive project was Google's attempt to do for old newspapers what Google Books has been attempting to do for the world's libraries.

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