Quoting from PSnews Edition Number 491f. Updated Friday, 19 February 2016. http://www.psnews.com.au/aps/491/news/napoleon-returns-for-digital-revolution?utm_source=aps491&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news1&utm_campaign=newsletter_aps
‘Napoleon’ returns for digital revolution
Napoleon’s Last Island by Tom Keneally, which tells the story of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile on the island of St Helena through the eyes of a 13-year-old girl, has made digital history by becoming the first ebook to be collected by the National Library of Australia (NLA).
Amendments to the Copyright Act now allow the NLA to collect everything from ebooks to blogs, websites to social media and under the new provisions, Australia will protect the digital record in the same way as it always has for print.
Library catalogues its first eBook
Mr Keneally, who won the Man Booker Prize in 1982 for Schindler’s Ark, said he was proud that his ebook paved the way for this new era of digital collecting — a significant moment for Australian authors, publishers and readers.
‘This is a wonderful symbol that writing and stories, old and new, still belong in the digital age,’ Mr Keneally said.
“A digital book is a book doubled, tripled or quadrupled and a book given to the future.”
As a result of the new legislation, the NLA’s web crawler is currently capturing the public Australian web domain.
Publishers and authors can now upload electronic books, journals, magazines and newsletters through the NLA’s website.
Visitors to the National Library in Canberra will be able to access the collection of digital publications later this year.
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