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Internet Archive Unveils Open System Allowing Search Engines to Index Books From Many Different Sources
The Internet Archive and various like-minded partners have launched an open architecture for selling and lending digital books online, an effort to consolidate the fledgling market for net texts – and give Google a little food for thought. Full Article at ResourceShelf
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We’ve now gotten universal access to free (content) ... Now it’s time to get universal access to all knowledge, and not all of this will be free.
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