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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Google Bring 400 000 Europe History Books

Google Bring 400 000 Europe History Books National library of Austria has signed a contract worth 30 million euros with the Internet giant from the U.S., Google, to digitize 400,000 books-the book free of copyright or copyright-free. The books are collections of history of Europe in 400 years. Johanna Rachinger, Head of ONB Library, refers to this as 'important step' because perpustaaan Austria is one of five library that holds the largest collection of century, 16-19. If counted, the book is a collection of no less than 120 million pages.
Under an agreement with Google, Google will be digitizing the collections of the Austrian sugar daddy who spends about 50-100 euros per book. Parties library states, without any external funding, this can not be realized.
Google will begin to scan in the year 2011 in Bavaria and is expected to be completed within six years. It's just that Google will not have exclusive rights to the books already scanned it. Later, all these collections can be accessed through the site ONB in www.onb.ac.at, Google Books Library at books.google.fr, as well as cantonal Europe in www.europeana.eu.
Google has been scanning millions of books to make digital libraries and online bookstores. Unfortunately, projects like this are often blocked the controversy of copyright, anti-trust and privacy issues.
Calculate a count, Google has been scanning 12 million books from 40 libraries, including Stanford University and Harvard in the U.S., and also the University of Rome and Florence in Italy.

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