Book People Archive

Re: MSN Books




On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, David Starner wrote:

> On 11/1/07, Klaus Graf <klausgraf@[redacted]> wrote:
>> The Microsoft-Yale project will initially focus on the digitization of
>> 100,000 out-of-copyright English-language books, which will then
>> become available readers through Microsoft's Live Search interface
>> (http://books.live.com)."
>> http://pressmediawire.com/article.cfm?articleID=3184
>>
>> Please note: English books only!
>
> So when a German company spends a lot of money to work with a German
> library to digitize books, what languages do they put an emphasis on?

Not to forget the French, Italians, Projekt Gutenberg-DE,
Project Runeberg [Scandinavian languages], etc.

Thanks!!!

Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg