Open Library goes online with public domain book collection
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| Do we really need multiple projects like this, or would everyone be better
| off by pooling resources and building a single, massive database? The
| Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle recognizes that this question will arise,
| and he tackles it head-on in his vision statement for the Open
| Library. "Won't some of the big commercial digitization projects deliver this
| future?" he asks. "They are part of it, but if we go no further, we may have
| an expanded bookstore, or a single means of organizing the materials, but we
| may not be building on the open tradition of a library."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070720-open-library-open-for-business.html
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