Microsoft and Yahoo scanning books now
Thought I would resurrect this thread.
Quote:
Microsoft has joined a Yahoo-backed effort to digitise the world's books and other works to make them searchable and accessible to anyone online.
The software giant said it would work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online.
The move comes as Google faces growing legal pressure from publishers over its own global digital library plans.
Microsoft said it would initially focus on works already in the public domain.
This way, it hopes to avoid similar legal issues over copyright.
Google said in a statement that it welcomed the move to make more information accessible to anyone online.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4377984.stm
Notice how MS sidestepped the legal issues. :rolleyes: