B&R Samizdat Express

B&R Samizdat Express

The B&R Samizdat Express is a small book publishing company started in 1974 by Barbara and Richard Seltzer.

In July 1993 the company started to sell public-domain texts on PC diskettes. In 2001 they branched out to book collections on CD ROM. And in 2004 they added book collections on DVD. Their offerings (over 14,500 books arranged in about 200 collections) are available through their online store. They send out the Ebook of the Week, as an email attachment to free subscribers.

Since January 1994, they have also published a free electronic newsletter, Internet-on-a-Disk, which discusses Internet trends and points to Internet resources for business, education, and the blind. It is frequently cited as one of the best resources for education and for the blind (who can "read" electronic texts with computer devices that provide voice output). In February 2006 they began posting that same kind of content in a blog -- "Blogging About Books".

External links

* [http://www.samizdat.com/ B&R Samizdat Express home page]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/09conn.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin New York Times article] "Sampling, if Not Digesting, the Digital Library" by Edward Rothstein


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