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November 9, 2009
The World Needs More Diversity in Book Digitizing Sources: Forbes Profiles Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive founder who recently announced the BookServer project as a vehicle to compete with Amazon's Kindle e-books and Google Editions for vending and lending e-books over the Internet is profiled in Forbes at Lend Ho! Brewster Kahle is a thorn in Google's side.
For more on BookServer, see LLB's Internet Archive Unveils BookServer to Centralize Distribution of eBooks amd the Resource Shelf's New From the Internet Archive: Bookserver, An Open System Allowing Users to Search Multiple eBook Catalogs from a Single Interface, Makes Crawling Easier Too! See also Vicki Szymczak's LLB post on Google Editions. [JH]
November 9, 2009 in Publishing Industry | Permalink