[game_preservation] Google's project to digitize all the booksin the world

[bcain at criticalmassinteractive.com]

Archive.org has also been working on this for some time, but they are doing only public domain works. They are also doing movies and audio/music. 

Archive.org rocks. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Melanie Swalwell <Melanie.Swalwell at flinders.edu.au>

Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:57:24 
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG<game_preservation at igda.org>
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Google's project to digitize all the books
 in	the world


Hasn't this been in the pipeline for a while now?

Devin Monnens wrote:

> You may have heard of this. In fact, I'd 'heard' of it back in 

> February, but didn't 'know' about it until this morning thanks to an 

> article in the New York Times. Google is digitizing all the books in 

> the world, in every language:

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/technology/internet/02link.html

> http://www.google.com/googlebooks/library.html

>

> Personally, I think this is a really cool idea, though not one without 

> danger.

There has been concern about this expressed on an Australian media history listserve I'm on.  It seems the resources people were using in their research through the paperofrecord.com database -- local newspapers, in many cases -- have recently disappeared.  You can read the original post at http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-ANZAU&month=0902&week=d&msg=FKdVZsUKW5fIBcF1wjNZZw&user=&pw=

Another message brought up by (ahem) a google search refers to a response from Google. http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Diplo&month=0902&week=d&msg=25E0NQxi7O1U%2BiMLn88FZw&user=&pw=
However, I have been unable to bring this up to read it.

Melanie


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