[Web4lib] Article about the Open Content Alliance

[Sloan, Bernie]

Interesting article in today's San Francisco Chronicle about Brewster
Kahle and the Open Content Alliance:

"While Google has alienated authors and publishers with its plan to
digitize books still in copyright, Kahle has moved gingerly, forging
collaborations with Google's fiercest archrivals -- Microsoft and Yahoo
-- to create a kinder, gentler digital library effort called the Open
Content Alliance."

Full text via:

http://tinyurl.com/apkdy 

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
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