January 24, 2006
Freedom of Information
A group of academic libraries and corporate partners assembled by the nonprofit Internet Archive is digitizing out-of-copyright books and making them available online at no charge. The project has the backing of Yahoo and Microsoft, and many see it primarily as a response to the controversial book-scanning project led by Google. (The Chronicle, subscription required)
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