The Doc Searls Weblog : Tuesday, December 14, 2004: “See, I think the future of periodical publishing, and of journalism itself, will be built mostly by individual bloggers and indivdidual blogs, and by a new breed of publishers who harvest and republish (and, yes, pay for) goods from the wide open ranges where bloggers roam, [...]
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The King County, Washington Library System is the first in the nation to offer audio books for download to its patrons. Publishers will allow the library to hold a certain number of “copies” and DRM will let each one timeout and disappear after 23 days, similar to the library’s regular titles.
Here is the library’s website.
USATODAY.com - Google to scan books from five major libraries
Google is trying to establish an online reading room for five major libraries by scanning stacks of hard-to-find books into its widely used Internet search engine.
The ambitious initiative announced late Monday gives Mountain View, Calif.-based Google the right to index material from the New York public [...]