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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."

3 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. What a concept. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I liked the idea the first time I heard it - back when it was called Project Gutenburg. :P

  2. Project Gutenberg by timeToy · · Score: 5, Informative

    16k ebooks to choose from today, more to come, no Google, no Yahoo.
    http://www.gutenberg.org/

  3. But will they digitize PD works from after 1922? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the US, books published after 1922 can still be public domain if the author was American, it was originally published in the US, and the copyright was not extended at the end of the original copyright period. Google Library does not seem to be making an exception for this, will OCA? Project Gutenberg does.