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Yahoo Competes with Google in Book Scanning

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the my-literary-collection-is-bigger-than-yours dept.

UltimaGuy writes "A consortium backed by Yahoo has launched an ambitious effort to digitize classic books and technical papers and make them freely available on the Web. The company is partnering with the newly formed Open Content Alliance, which aims to offer PDF documents of books to the public at no charge. Consumers will be able to search the contents of the Open Content Alliance's database and download the entire content of any work, such as a scanned copy of a book."

5 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. RIAA Problems Solved by GreggyBUIUC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone start up a "Open Content Alliance" for music... then we can digitize and share it all we want.

  2. Will Yahoo scan it like they have yahoo.com? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait to read the whole book on one page.

  3. Re:Dupe by Nuttles1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You must not be a true /.er because you know that if you were you would read up on every bit of documentation about anything that we do....Like how we alway RTFA...errr....wait, scratch that

  4. Re:Project Gutenberg by Infinityis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well this is a problem waiting to get solved. Why don't they incorporate image-to-ASCIIart software so we can get high-quality images from these books?

  5. New and Radical by Corydon76 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, wow, that is completely original. Nobody else could have possibly thought of this idea before.