Sentence examples for book initiative from inspiring English sources

But in an odd, paradoxical – you might almost say Wildean – way, my favourite of his works is The Picture of Dorian Gray, subject of Dublin's One City, One Book initiative for the last month.

None of these women had a history of activist involvement, but were recruited for the book initiative through attendance at MSF support groups.

The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) even started the Maryland Comic Book Initiative in which it piloted the use of comics such as Jim Ottaviani's Dignifying Science (biographical comic stories about women scientists) in middle school classrooms (MSDE, 2004; Ottaviani, 2009).

Other digital book initiatives are under way in France; the Parliament recently passed a law authorizing the French National Library to scan so-called orphan works — out-of-print books whose copyright holder cannot be found — for an openly available digital repository.

Barnes & Noble's e-book initiative has some bright spots: the iPhone and Windows apps are mostly excellent, the concept of free access to public-domain books is sound and being able to read your e-books on your laptop is a no-brainer.

The FORBES e-books initiative is in partnership with Hyperink, a startup company.

The Association of American Publishers has created a task force for e-book standards, some major publishers are launching e-book initiatives and almost all of our university presses have experimented with the technology.

Microsoft is shutting down its book digitization initiative, which launched in 2006, the company said in an email today (full text is below).

And, in my book, the initiative represents one of the most promising, evidence-based, impulses in education reform to come along in awhile.

Further, as part of the immense mailing, Restoration Hardware includes a separate printed sheet titled, "Our Source Book Sustainability Initiative," which informs "1.

The year was 2007, and a group of record shop clerks inspired by Free Comic Book Day an initiative that, yep, sees free comic books doled out to anyone who covets such things decided that what the world needed was a day set aside to celebrate the idiosyncrasies of record shops the world over.