[LINK] 250,000 scanned books

[Jan Whitaker]

 From www.archive.org

Wednesday, the Internet Archive's 
<http://www.opencontentalliance.org>Open Content Alliance grew to 80 
contributing libraries.

We have scanned over 100,000 books now available to everyone. (Over 
<http://www.archive.org/details/texts>250,000 total.)

The New York Times has an 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html>article 
today on page 1, above the fold!

Other <http://www.openlibrary.org/details/oca_test_004>announcements 
of the OCA include:

* Digital inter-library loan of out-of-print works starting;

* Mass Microfilm scanning program started;

* Mass journal literature scanning program started;

* <http://demo.openlibrary.org>OpenLibrary.org opensource site now 
has tech framework for online book catalog and books;

* Print-on-demand machine demonstrated with OCA books.




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