digital books

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Court Hands Huge Victory To Universities' Digitization Efforts

Rebecca J. Rosen | Atlantic | October 11, 2012

Universities can proceed with their efforts to scan books, not just because of the ability to search, but because of the huge benefits to blind students. Read More »

Norway Is Digitizing All Its Books And Making Them Free To Read Online

Adrianne Jeffries | The Verge | December 11, 2013

The National Library of Norway is digitizing all the books in its collection, processing the text to make it searchable, and making them available to read online. Read More »

Open Access: Indian Students Help Revive And Digitize Rare Books For Malayalam Wiki Library

Swaraj Paul Barooah | Spicy IP | July 15, 2014

The New Indian Express reports that in a terrific effort, more than 1000 school students and 234 members of the public across the state of Kerala digitized, proof-read and uploaded more than 150 rare and out-of-copyright Malayalam books as part of a digitization contest organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wiki Source project by the Centre for Internet and Society, the state government run IT@School project, Swanthanthra Malayalam Computing and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi online library...

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Why Online Book Discovery Is Broken (And How To Fix It)

Laura Hazard Owen | paidContent | January 17, 2013

Here’s the main problem with book discovery online: Right now, it doesn’t really work. New research shows that frequent book buyers visit sites like Pinterest and Goodreads regularly, but those visits fail to drive actual book purchases. Read More »