November 11, 2005

Microsoft to Start Digitizing Books

David A. Vise wrote that Microsoft is going to start digitizing books similar to efforts by Google. In Microsoft to Offer 100,000 Books Free Online (Washington Post, Saturday, November 5, 2005; Page D01), he reports that Microsoft, in cooperation with the British Library, will spend $2.5 million to digitize books no longer protected by copyright.

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