[Web4lib] Yahoo book digitization project

[Sloan, Bernie]

Carlson, Scott and Jeffrey R. Young. Chronicle of Higher Education.
October 3, 2005.

"Yahoo Inc. has teamed up with the University of California, the
University of Toronto, and several archives and technology companies on
a project that could potentially bring the complete texts of millions of
volumes into digital form...The new archive is called the Open Content
Alliance...Libraries involved in the project can have their books
scanned by the Internet Archive for 10 cents per page, which leaders of
the project say is far below the standard price of scanning... Leaders
of the project stressed that no books that are under copyright will be
scanned unless the copyright holders give explicit permission."

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http://chronicle.com/free/2005/10/2005100301t.htm 

Bernie Sloan
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Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
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