Free Digital Books
The University of California has announced that they are creating a free digital library. OAKLAND, CA - The University of California libraries today (Oct. 3) announced their participation in a partnership to build a freely accessible digital library with materials drawn from across the world. The UC libraries will contribute books and resources in order to build a collection of out-of-copyright American literature that will include works by many great American authors. With the support of Yahoo! Inc., UC library books will be digitized by the Internet Archive using a new technology that scans books at the cost of 10 cents per page. In comparison, the costs to scan archival photographs and documents typically begin at $20 per page. There are more than 100 libraries on the 10 UC campuses which together comprise the largest research/academic library in the world. Check out the story here |
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