After several years of scanning and archiving, the Internet Archive and the Open Content Alliance this week unveiled the Open Library, their attempt at bringing public domain books to the masses. The ...
Open Library (www.openlibrary.org) is a website dedicated to books and their readers. Their stated goal is "a page (web page, I guess) for every book. In a way, it's a bit like Wikipedia, in that ...
SAN FRANCISCO--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 ...
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this report included an author among those who signed onto the letter who pulled their name before the list was publicly released. Hundreds of authors signed a letter ...
The popular e-book download site Z-Library was shut down earlier this month by U.S. federal authorities, as we reported last week, likely for the distribution of pirated materials. This left students ...
SAN FRANCISCO--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 ...