France's Answer to Mass Digitization Projects: Gallica 2 to Go Live after Paris Book Fair
France's Gallica 2 digital book project will go live after the Paris Book Fair, which ends on March 19th. Initially, it will contain 62,000 digital works, mostly from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Publishers will have the option to charge various kinds of access fees.
Read more about it at "France Launches Google Books Rival."
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