In the increasingly intense battle to digitize books, score one for Microsoft: The company’s new MSN Book Search project has secured the rights to create an online archive of works from the British Library. Microsoft plans to scan 100,000 public-domain books—a total of about 25 million pages of material—from the library next year. (InternetNews.com)
The deal may help Microsoft as it mounts a challenge to Google’s controversial print archive, which kicked off the book-digitizing spree.
For more on Microsoft’s scanning project, see a recent article from The Chronicle, by Jeffrey R. Young.
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