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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."

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  1. Dupe by JordanL · · Score: 0, Troll

    The editors should talk to each other more. I mean, I don't mind seeing two different takes on the same story, but I'd be pissed if I had bought the rights to see a story early.... only to find out it was a dupe.

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  2. its to see... by CDPatten · · Score: 0, Troll

    that Yahoo! picked up the pieces and will succeeded where google failed miserably.

  3. Re:Project Gutenberg by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 1, Troll
    No images, graphics, no typography, no typesetting...

    Project Gutenberg is great and all, but there's something to be said for some effort made at presentation. Sometimes italics are a good thing.

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  4. Opendocument? by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 0, Troll

    Will they come in opendocument format? Or proprietary PDF?

    Just wondering.