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Wednesday, July 25, 2001
http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/07/2001072501t.htm 2 Former Professors Look to Technology to Bolster Scholarly Presses' History Offerings By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Move over, Stephen King. Historians are creating e-books, too. The History E-Book Project, an effort of the American Council of Learned Societies, is a way for scholarly publishers to experiment with electronic technology. The project is supported with a $3-million grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The project is headed by the husband-and-wife team of Ronald G. Musto and Eileen Gardiner, both former college professors -- he in history, she in medieval literature. They are the founders of a small publishing company in New York City called Italica Press....
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