Just a few days after this post about Google Books vs. the Open Content Alliance, Microsoft has partnered with Yale University to scan 100,000 out-of-copyright books so that it can make them available to readers through Microsoft Live Search @ http://books.live.com. Here’s another story on the same project.
So everyone seems to be jumping on the Open Books bandwagon (not that that’s a bad thing). I don’t know about you, but I think it’s high time McDonalds got involved somehow. Maybe Wal*Mart and Starbucks, too.
November 27, 2007 at 8:47 pm |
[...] million books in more than 20 languages. This differs from the projects discussed here earlier from Microsoft and Google in that it’s sponsored by universities — in this case universities in the [...]