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New TV Series for Liveryman Sir Christopher Meyer
Liveryman Sir Christopher Meyer has a new television series on the history of British diplomacy on BBC 4.
The first episode entitled ‘Security’ will be broadcast at 9pm on Monday, 8th February. Further episodes follow on subsequent Mondays.
For further information on the series, please click on this link www.wingspanproductions.co.uk
"BOOKS WILL LIVE – THANKS TO DIGITISATION”
As Google, creator of the 4th biggest library in the US, scans as many of the world’s books as possible, making them available online, this is their confident prediction.
Describing their approach as comprehensive rather than commercial, Santiago De la Mora of Google UK said “there was a reader for every single book”. Yet thousands of library books were never read as no one knew they were there. Digitising books allows everyone in the world access, including the poorest readers. Asked about the threat from electronic books and e-readers, he said “these were a complement to print, serving different needs such as portability for travellers”.
Denying author’s rights as under attack, he declared authors had more chance of earning royalties and that copyright was a strong as ever. Google would never show a single page of a book without permission from the copyright holder.
Santiago de la Mora was being interviewed at Stationers’ Hall at a meeting of the Digital Media Group of the Stationers’ Company and jointly hosted with the Information Technologists’ Company on 28 January 2010.
