As we reported earlier this week, Google has settled the lawsuit brought in 2005 by authors and book publishers regarding its massive book scanning and indexing project.
Source:Google Book Search Settlement: A Reader's Guide (Electronic Frontier Foundations)
LibriVox is a volunteer effort with a big goal: record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. In the following Q&A, LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire discusses the project’s beginnings, the organic development of the LibriVox community, and the distinctions (or lack thereof) between “professional” and “amateur” efforts. How did LibriVox start? LibriVox came about in August 2005, when I was looking for free, full-length audiobooks online for a long car trip. I went to gutenbe
Source:Open Source, Community and Audiobooks: Q&A with LibriVox Founder Hugh McGuire
LibriVox is a volunteer effort with a big goal: record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. In this Q&A, LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire discusses the project’s beginnings, the organic development of the LibriVox community, and the distinctions (or lack thereof) between “professional” and “amateur” efforts.
Source:Open Source, Community and Audiobooks: Q&A with LibriVox Founder Hugh McGuire (O'Reilly Media)
Image via Wikipedia I have previously written about the OpenLibrary, both how much I liked their interface, and how it frustrated me that they didn’t communicate better to the public about their progress. Recently, a workshop was held in San Francisco, “to share progress and plans for continued growth of open web access to digital books”. Two of the outcomes reported were initiatives to provde print-on-demand for some of the public domain books (through Hewlett Packard) and scan-on-demand fo
Source:What’s happening with OpenLibrary and OCA
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Introduction: Homes for Good (Orphan) Books (N.B. This is the introductory essay from the issue of Library Trends, Volume 57, Number 1, Summer 2008, theoretically focused on Digital Books and the Impact on Libraries; the collection is at least as much about publishers. I want to thank John Unsworth of UIUC for granting me this guest editorship, and I want to acknowledge the assistance of Marlo Welshons (now at the Univ. of Minnesota) and Cindy Ashwill (UIUC), both of whom kept me on track and
Source:Library Trends: Homes for Good (Orphan) Books
Update On the Code4Lib IRC channel Thursday afternoon, Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer at OCLC Programs and Research, said that there is absolutely no connection between the policy change and the Google Book Search settlement. The Original Post Two big and seemingly unrelated things came to light on Tuesday of this week: first was word that OCLC is changing its policy on the use/transfer of WorldCat Records, and the second is news of a proposed settlement in the Google Book Search lawsuit.
Source:Is OCLC’s Change of WorldCat Record Use/Transfer Policy Related to the Google Book Search Agreement?
The impact of the settlement will likely deliver the ultimate death knell to the already struggling public library institutions, writes IPgrll in her blog. And in a separate but similar analysis further below, Wade Roush says it’s not just libraries that are losing, but readers in general. Read her entry in full for an analysis of the technical details of the settlement, and what it means for public libraries. Here just the conclusion: “So let’s recap. Google is going to digitize all books.
Source:Google/Publisher’s settlement may be a disaster for U.S. public libraries