An open-source rival to Google's book project

Posted by tadelste on Oct 26, 2005 9:25 PM EDT
ZDNet; By Stefanie Olsen
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When it comes to digitizing books, two stories appear to be unfolding: One is about open source, and the other, Google.

Or so it seemed at a party held by the Internet Archive on Tuesday evening, when the nonprofit foundation and a parade of partners, including the Smithsonian Institution, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN, rallied around a collective open-source initiative to digitize all the world's books and make them universally available.

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Double standards. salparadise 1 790 Oct 26, 2005 11:32 PM

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