September 22, 2023

InPublishing: Mousse Magazine launches digital archive

InPublishing: Mousse Magazine launches digital archive. “Contemporary art magazine Mousse has digitised its complete archive of print issues in partnership with publisher services company, Exact Editions, expanding the reading experience with a new paperless dimension. Individuals and institutions can now subscribe for fully-searchable access to over eighty issues from Mousse archives, dating all the way back to 2006, with new ones being published quarterly.”

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September 11, 2023

Forward: How I stumbled upon thousands of Holocaust-era letters and traced the stories behind them

Forward: How I stumbled upon thousands of Holocaust-era letters and traced the stories behind them. “The letter was dated July 17, 1939, and signed by a man named Joseph Gross. He was writing from New York to thank the Forward for helping to find his relatives. Alongside it in the digital archive was a letter written in Yiddish, dated the following week, sent from Brussels and signed by Avrom Gross, Joseph’s cousin. ‘I read the letter with such great astonishment,” Avrom wrote. “I have no way of thanking you.’ I stumbled across these letters online, in the digitized archives of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Jerusalem, while searching for references to a column called Seeking Relatives that ran for decades in the Forward.”

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August 30, 2023

Engadget: Libby is making it easier to access magazines for free with a supported library card

Engadget: Libby is making it easier to access magazines for free with a supported library card. “A library card is one of the most useful things you can have in your wallet. Libby offers free access to ebooks and audiobooks if you have a supported library card (some 90 percent of public libraries in North America now use OverDrive’s app). Not only that, you can also use Libby to read a host of magazines for absolutely zilch. Some updates are coming to the app next month that should make it easier to read the likes of The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Bon Appetit and Wired for free.”

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August 23, 2023

InPublishing: The Poetry Book Society launches digital archive

InPublishing: The Poetry Book Society launches digital archive. “Digital access to a fully-searchable modern archive of The Poetry Book Society Bulletin (PBS Bulletin) is now available to the society’s members, as well as poets, literature lovers and libraries worldwide. The archive, created in partnership with digital publishing services platform Exact Editions, offers nearly 25 issues’ worth of content dating back to 2017 and is accessible across web, iOS and Android devices.”

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August 17, 2023

The Nib: The Nib magazines are free to download!

The Nib: The Nib magazines are free to download! . “The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end of August. But before we go, we are making all 15 issues of our Eisner and Ignatz award-winning magazine available for anyone to download for free. That’s more than 1,600 pages of comics, including our out of print Secrets, Nature, Food, and Color issues.”

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June 4, 2023

Getty: The Ambitious Plan to Open Up a Treasure Trove of Black History

Getty: The Ambitious Plan to Open Up a Treasure Trove of Black History. “The Johnson Publishing Company produced iconic magazines including Ebony and Jet and its archive is regarded as one of the most significant collections of 20th century Black American culture. The archive contains around 5,000 magazines, 200 boxes of business records, 10,000 audio and visual recordings, and 4.5 million prints and negatives that chronicle Black life from the 1940s until the present day… After the publishing company filed for bankruptcy in 2019, a consortium comprising five institutions including the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Smithsonian Institution purchased the archive.”

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April 27, 2023

New York Times: German Magazine Editor Is Fired Over A.I. Michael Schumacher Interview

New York Times: German Magazine Editor Is Fired Over A.I. Michael Schumacher Interview. “The publisher of a German magazine that ran what it described as a ‘world sensation’ interview with the retired Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher, but used responses written by artificial intelligence, has fired the magazine’s editor and apologized to Mr. Schumacher’s family.”

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March 21, 2023

Press Information Bureau (India): Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has launched an ambitious project to digitize the research material in its possession

Press Information Bureau (India): Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has launched an ambitious project to digitize the research material in its possession. “Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has launched an ambitious project to digitize the research material in its possession. Under this project, the goal is to ensure the conversion of the entire India House Collection of the Library consisting of 40,000 books, reports, periodicals (containing around 70,00,000 pages), 55,00,000 pages of archival documents, and of 30,000 microfilms and 57,000 microfiches (consisting of approximately 2.5 crore images) to digital form.” If you’re not from India and confused by the commas in the numbers, this will enlighten you.

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March 3, 2023

The Guardian: Race Today archive chronicling lives of black Britons to launch online

The Guardian: Race Today archive chronicling lives of black Britons to launch online. “The archive of a magazine chronicling the lives of Britain’s black community during the 1970s and 1980s will be available online for the first time. Race Today magazine, first launched in 1973, combined radical journalism with campaigning zeal to shine a light on the issues affecting Britain’s black communities, as well as providing insight and commentary on politics in Britain and abroad.”

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February 22, 2023

Ars Technica: Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers

Ars Technica: Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers. “One side effect of unlimited content-creation machines—generative AI—is unlimited content. On Monday, the editor of the renowned sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine announced that he had temporarily closed story submissions due to a massive increase in machine-generated stories sent to the publication.”

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