Yahoo Getting Into The Book Business

Monday October 3, 2005

"Yahoo is working with the Internet Archive, the University of California and others on a project to digitize books in archives around the world and make them searchable through any Web search engine and downloadable for free, the group was set to announce Monday.
"If we get this right so enough people want to participate in droves, we can have an interoperable, circulating library that is not only searchable on Yahoo but other search engines and downloadable on handhelds, even iPods," said Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive.
The project, to be run by the newly formed Open Content Alliance (OCA), was designed to skirt copyright concerns that have plagued Google's Print Library Project since it was begun last year."

I wrote about Google's problems with print and the Authors Guild a couple of weeks ago, and it looks to me that Yahoo is wisely going to attempt to avoid the mess that Google's stepped into.

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