| Senator Ted Kennedy is the latest children's author. Together with his Portuguese Water Dog Splash, Kennedy is the co-protagonist in the book entitled "My Senator and Me: A Dog's Eye View of Washington, D.C." The book will be released by Scholastic, Inc., in May. Kennedy describes himself as being very excited about the children's book. According to Scholastic, the book not only takes a reader through a day in the life of a senator, but also explains how a bill becomes law. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat who has been in the Senate for over forty years, says he was inspired to write the book after working with a D.C. based reading program. Kennedy's net proceeds from the book will be donated to charity.
There are series of international systems for the classification of books - ISBN
ISBN is the abbreviation for International Standard Book Number, the unique identifier for each edition of a book produced in any country in the world, if the publisher accepts this standard. The special association ISBN maintains this system. The identifier consists of four parts:
Country code
Publisher’s code,
Title code
Checksum (which may take the value from 0 to 9 and X (10).
Shift over to digital format
The term e-book (electronic book) describes the information of a common book, presented in digital format. Such books are available on the Internet, on CD-ROM's etc.
In our century, libraries faced the problem of the increasing number of publications, as we call in an information boom. The appearance of electronic publications and the Internet provided the possibility of not printing the information in the form of a book, and making it accessible online through a digital library, and also on CD-ROM or in the form of an e-book.
From the other side, though the books are made in electronic form, many of the books in such formats are not available (in libraries or on Internet). And also, due to inconvenience of existing reading systems, many people prefer paper books, that’s why their production remains at the same level. However, many people are trying to digitize the existing books for ensuring their un-hampered access for all and also for ensuring their storage on digital media.
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