2003 July:'The Da Vinci Code’ published

2003年7月:《達(dá)芬奇密碼》出版

Dan Brown begins worldwide domination with monks-and-conspiracy thriller.

此書的熱賣自不用說,更令人關(guān)注的可能是由它引發(fā)的宗教討論。而丹布朗也因此開始專注他的“僧侶+陰謀”模式系列書……

2004 December: Google announces its plan to convert 15 million books into digital format

2004年12月:谷歌宣布新計(jì)劃,將要把150萬本圖書轉(zhuǎn)為電子版

A fully searchable, universally accessible library available on your computer. Brilliant but scary.

一座完全免費(fèi)的圖書館就此出現(xiàn)在個(gè)人用戶電腦里,但由它所引發(fā)的版權(quán)問題在6年后的今天開始給谷歌找麻煩。

2005 February: YouTube created

2005年2月:YouTube建立

When it began, this video-sharing website, founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, was loathed by multinational entertainment corporations as a copyright-infringing parasite. Since then it has been bought by Google, attracts more than a billion hits a day and its user-generated content makes it a major player in the Web 2.0 economy. Many of the companies who tried to sue it now distribute and promote their products through it.

YouTube建立之初和國內(nèi)某豆網(wǎng)站一樣是個(gè)盜版天堂。不幸的是國外法律太過健全,它很快就被Google收購,運(yùn)行愈發(fā)規(guī)范。所幸它依然能每天吸引上億點(diǎn)擊率,并逐漸發(fā)展出如今大行其道的web2.0社區(qū)互動(dòng)模式。如今已經(jīng)有很多商業(yè)機(jī)構(gòu)利用它推廣自己的產(chǎn)品。

2006 Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

2006年 土耳其小說家奧爾罕·帕慕克獲諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)

Pamuk’s work illuminates a country torn between a resurgent Islam and the West.

得獎(jiǎng)作品《伊斯坦布爾:一座城市的記憶》,描述了這個(gè)夾在中西方文化之間的奇妙城市。

2007 January:Canongate publishes Barack Obama’s 'Dreams from My Father’

2007年1月:珂納蓋特出版了奧巴馬的《我父親的夢想》

Small Edinburgh publisher picks up little-known American senator’s memoir. Two years later...

一家不知名的愛丁堡出版社挑選了同樣不知名的美國議員的回憶錄出版。而兩年后……

2007 July:'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ published

2007年7月:哈利波特系列的最后一本《哈利波特與死亡圣器》出版

JK Rowling sends children (and adults) into a frenzy of speed-reading.

感謝上帝,羅琳把孩子們(還有好多大人)從屏幕前拉回到書里。