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Google's Goal: Digitize and Sell Access to the World's Books
Google wants to digitize 40 million books in the next few years, then how many millions more thereafter? Currently Google has set themselves up to have a legal monopoly on these books. They can and do sell access to some of their digitized books. But other libraries, especially small libraries, could be doing the same thing with their books cheaply and help make the world's first free digital library open to anyone anytime anywhere.
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The Open Book Alliance
The Open Book Alliance seeks to create a national registry of digitzed books. The OBA also seeks to mobilize large to very small libraries to digitize their book collections -- as current US (or EU, etc) copyright law(s) allow -- do that the digital copies are entered in the national registry and can be web published to allow free open-access to the national and international literature in digital form.
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ACM hinders open access to digital books
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BBC: US Court Blocks Google Book Deal
The BBC of 11.03.23 reported that US Courts have blocked Google from completing a deal with out-of-print book publishers and authors to web publish and sell access to the digital copies of those books. Google has digitized over 15 million of such books as of this date.
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NYT: (US) Judge Rejects Google's Book Digitizing Deal
The New York Times of 11.03.23 reported that a US Court Judge has rejected a private deal which search engine giant, Google, has made with out-of-print book publishers and authors. Google has digitized over 15 million of such books as of this date. Google for many years has wanted to sell access to the digital copies of the books, eBooks, which it has digitized. Other books digitized by Google include those in the Stanford and Harvard(?) University libraries. (Note to self: UPDATE THE CONSORTIUM LIST ASAP)
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NYT: (We Need) A Digital Library Better Than Google's
Director of the Harvard University Library, Dr. Robert Darnton in Cambridge, Mass (home of Harvard, M.I.T., and Boston U.) commented in the 11.03.24 New York Times saying in effect that "we can do better" than Google when it comes to building a truly free public digital library.
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The CrowdRise Replace Textbooks project
Edward Mokurai Cherlin, founder of the Crowd Rise "Replace Textbooks" fund raising project, announced on Facebook 11.04.08 that: "Replacing textbooks with free digital OERs (Open Education Resources) is an essential part of providing affordable education to a billion children at a time (that is, all of them). Education saves lives, fights corruption, and gets people out of poverty and oppression." This link goes to that project fund raising web site where project details at this writing appear to be absent.
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NYT: Amazon Kindle eReader users to get free books from some digitized public libraries
In the New York Times of 11.04.20, reporter Julie Bosman reports that Amazon.com, maker of the Kindle eReader, has new deal with several digital public libraries in the USA. Any Kindle user can access, check-out, download and use for a limited number of days FOR FREE a digital copy of a library book from one of these public libraries.
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DN: The Open Library Project and Open Content Alliance
Internet Archivist Brewster Kahle and film maker and film archivist Rick Prelinger were on the Democracy Now program of 11.08.24. In this segment they discussed their efforts to make both a physical and a digital library containing all the books in the world. They would do so in ways more accessible and affordable than Google has done to date. The results might be The Library of Alexandria version 2.0, with multiple copies thereof spread around the world, the digital copies therein accessible anytime for free with a computer and Internet connection. They also spoke briefly about the history and current state of The Internet Archive (archive.org), of the Open Library Project and the Open Content Alliance.
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BB: Blogging101 (deceptive ads)
BookBaby.com, an organization in Portland, Oregon, offers an excerpt of a book they sell about Blogging. The deception is legal "bait-to-make-buy" and has several components: (1) The Internet email advertising for the free Blogging 101 PDF file does not say it is a 10 page excerpt from the much larger book. (2) The free Blogging 101 PDF file presents terse, perhaps "dumbed-down" summary information about blogging, but some apparently useful links to more information. (3) The reader/consumer has to buy their book to get the complete or at least the greater picture that may be available only in the book. Tricks (1-3) shifts consumer risk to this users choice: Pay the money, buy the book, read the book to discover if the content was worth the money. (4) On the online sign-up form, http://www.bookbaby.com/campaigns/request-blogging101, which the reader/consumer must fill in before having permission to download the Blogging 101 PDF file, there is another advertisement. It says that BookBaby will charge an author $99 to design a digital book cover for the author's book. In addition BookBaby offers " free basic ePUB Conversion" of the author's PDF copy of their book. "Upload a PDF file and we will convert it to ePub and Kindle formats. Just $39 extra. Price includes conversion of books 250 pages or less. If your book is over 250 pages, add $.25 per page." (5) Now BookBaby has your name and email address and can send you more advertising emails until you unsubscribe. In short: Buyer beware; book author: publish the PDF copy of your book on your own web site or on a free web site.
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NYT: Textbooks Make Big Leap to Digital
The New York Times education section reported Wednesday 11.11.23 that Amazon.com has begun selling more consumer digital books online than paper-based books. Digital textbooks are finally catching up in popularity. School curricula, in class work and home work developers are struggling to catch up to the trend.
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