http://bibliolife.com BiblioLife | Old Books Deserve a New Life | Set Knowledge Free Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:50:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Look for Conrad Anker as he tours the country in support of The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest -- including screenings of the new documentary distributed by National Geographic Films.  REI is now a major promotional partner in the movie release and you can catch Conrad at REI stores all ... http://bibliolife.com/2010/07/13/conrad-anker-begins-promotional-tour-for-the-wildest-dream/ [youtube]n9w6aPM8msM[/youtube] jimihatt is hitting the road this summer -- signing copies of the first release in his "Old School" cooking series - Old Cookery Books & Ancient Cuisine and bringing a little joy into your lives. You seriously need to hit one of these events. We did a great event with Guerrilla ... http://bibliolife.com/2010/06/11/summer-book-tour-for-jimihatt-guerilla-cuisine-charleston-get-ready/ We are pretty happy about making these classics of mountaineering available for Kindle. Extending the zero-waste publishing process of POD to e-books as well. We also have sent Everest series to press and are expecting proofs back early next week. The books include Conrad's trip journal and other insights into the ... http://bibliolife.com/2010/05/07/conrad-anker-historical-mountaineering-books-now-available-in-kindle-format/ Great write up on jimihatt and Matt Bolus's first Old School cooking series release. Read the whole article. ++++++++++ "The underground supper club that is Guerrilla Cuisine capitalizes on several things. One is an interest in all things food. Two is a desire to discover new experiences. And three is ... http://bibliolife.com/2010/04/01/old-school-cooking-series-mash-up-getting-some-media-love/ Our CTO, Jason Youmans did a great job representing BiblioLife in this 30 second spot for Comcast. Supporting roles by Jonah Canter (Ops Manager), Hector Mojica (Software Engineer), and Kevin Stewart (Software Engineer). Some good shots of our work space also. [youtube]-8Yr7JqOfc8[/youtube] http://bibliolife.com/2010/01/26/bibliolife-launces-bibliogov/ We have been working on some pretty nice projects with the folks at College of Charleston. In September we finalized details and chose a recipient for the BiblioLife Scholarship. This four year full scholarship was constructed with Chris Starr, head of the Computer Science department. As part of our cooperation ... http://bibliolife.com/2009/10/27/bibliolife-and-college-of-charleston-news/ We are happy to be working on a pilot with the folks at OnDemandBooks to make all our content available worldwide via their "in-store" print on demand machines. The vision of the ODB guys has been a long time coming and we are glad to be part of it now ... http://bibliolife.com/2009/04/09/bibliolife-content-to-be-made-available-on-espresso-on-demand-book-machine/ BiblioLife has been invited to present at one of the SouthEast's top innovation and venture capital summits on March 24, 2009. Below is the description from the Innoventure Website. -------------------- InnoVenture Southeast 2009 is a unique opportunity to hear global thought leaders and to meet several hundred talented, connected people creating ... http://bibliolife.com/2009/02/26/bibliolife-to-present-at-innoventure-2009-conference/ We are excited to be working with the nice ladies at Your Backyard Farmer to bring back to life some of the important books of Urban Gardening published before 1923. Pioneered in 2006, YBF is an innovative approach to community supported agriculture through urban backyard farming. They create small sustainable ... http://bibliolife.com/2009/01/08/bibliolife-and-your-backyard-farmer-working-together-to-bring-back-important-pre-1923-books-on-urban-gardening/ We are pretty jazzed to be working with the great folks at the  Bibliographical Center for Research in Denver, Colorado and Ingram Digital on this project. Here is the official press release. Stay tuned for more information as this program develops in 2009. http://bibliolife.com/2008/12/15/official-press-release-bibliolife-partners-with-the-bibliographic-center-for-research-ingram-digital-project-aims-to-digitize-600000-books-in-the-next-five-years/