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Re: [News] Freedom for 60,000 More Books

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____/ Mark Kent on Monday 04 Jan 2010 23:00 : \____

> 
> 
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
>>
>>
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 04 Jan 2010 17:49 : \____
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>>> Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>>>>
>>>>> 60,000 books from Library of Congress go online
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Almost 60,000 are available now and more are
>>>>>| scanned every day. These books are in the
>>>>>| public domain and come with no restrictions on
>>>>>| their use. Feel free to harvest, index,
>>>>>| investigate, and re-use.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=283352
>>>>
>>>>    http://www.archive.org/details/library_of_congress
>>>>
>>>> Bookmarked.
>>>>
>>> 
>>> Yes, this is brilliant.  The BL should look at this and learn.
>>
>> They might learn about putting it on the Web, but not about making it
>> DRM-free. AdamF is still running this show with Alex Brown and other
>> Microsoft friends, I reckon.
>>
> 
> Time for another campaign?

Moody already does that in a way.

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