Quoting "David H. Rothman" <davidrothman_at_POBOX.COM>:
>
> 2. A national digital library could start at small and build up. I also
> favor a focus on public domain works and educational and
> job-training-related content at the very beginning.
Both the Internet Archive and Hathi Trust are already doing this for
public domain works, (I'm not sure where job training comes into
this), and the Archive is even providing public domain and non-public
domain works in formats for the sight-impaired (DAISY), already having
more digital books in that format than were ever available before.
Both are non-profit. Internet Archive makes all of its
out-of-copyright books available for free download, so anyone could
take these into another system if desired. In addition, many libraries
already do provide access (for free to the user) to digital books,
with the active consent of the publishers.
Perhaps it would be best to begin with these rather than ideate an
entirely new project?
kc
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Received on Mon Nov 15 2010 - 04:39:50 EST