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MICROSOFT JOINS YAHOO BOOK PROJECT
Microsoft has said it will participate in a recently announced
book-scanning project led by Yahoo and the Internet Archive. Unlike
Google's much-maligned project, the Yahoo initiative, called the Open
Content Alliance, will only scan books that are in the public domain or
for which explicit permission has been granted by the copyright holder.
In contrast, Google will scan copyrighted books unless copyright
holders specifically request that their books be excluded, though only
small portions of copyrighted books will be available online. For its
part, Microsoft will finance the scanning of about 150,000 books, while
Yahoo will pay for about 18,000 books to be digitized. The Open Content
Alliance also differs from Google's project in that all of the content
from the alliance will be available from a database to any search
engine; Google will be the only means to access the content of its
project. Microsoft will create an MSN Book Search service next year,
though the business model for particular services and fees has not been
set, according to Danielle Tiedt, general manager of search content
acquisition at MSN.
ZDNet, 25 October 2005
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5913711.html


Mr. James B. Greenberg
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Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
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