Friday, 8th May 2015

Publishers Weekly to Digitize Archives

By Africa S. Hands

From Publishers Weekly:

Publishers Weekly is launching a partnership with NA Publishing, Inc. to digitize the entire 750,000 pages of the magazine’s archives. Known as “the Bible of the book publishing industry,” Publishers Weekly was founded in 1872 and has been published continuously since then.

Publishers Weekly reviews approximately 9,000 titles per year, and there are approximately 200,000 reviews currently available in digital form. It is estimated that there are 100,000 more book reviews in the archives.

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