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Microsoft Joins Yahoo! Book Search Plan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the information-is-a-drug dept.

tanman writes "The BBC is reporting that Microsoft has signed on to 'work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online. The move comes as Google faces growing legal pressure from publishers over its own global digital library plans.'"

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  1. 14 Libraries and Microsoft Joined Last Night by brewsterkahle · · Score: 5, Informative

    The press has concentrated on Microsoft's joining which is fantastic, but we also had 14 key libraries join which is also great news.
    http://www.opencontentalliance.org is a good site for this stuff.

    Something I am jazzed about is a cool bookviewer at http://www.openlibrary.org/ showing the first books from University of California sponsored by Yahoo! and the "vision book" there tells the story of what we envision and some of the announcements.

    onward!

    -brewster Digital Librarian Internet Archive (administers the Open Content Alliance)

  2. Blog Post from Open Library Programmer by BradNeuberg · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm one of the software engineers who worked on the Open Library's Flipbook viewer. I just put up a blog post with further technical details on what we have done here:

    http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2005/10/introdu cing-open-library-and-ajax.html

    Check it out.

    Brad Neuberg