Coverage of the Demise of Microsoft's Mass Digitization Project
Microsoft's decision to end its Live Search Books program, which provided important funding for the Open Content Alliance, has been widely covered by newspapers, blogs, and other information sources.
Here's a selection of articles and posts: "Books Scanning to be Publicly Funded," "'It Ain’t Over Till It's Over': Impact of the Microsoft Shutdown," "Microsoft Abandons Live Search Books/Academic Scan Plan," "Microsoft Burns Book Search—Lacks 'High Consumer Intent,'" "Microsoft Shuts Down Two of Its Google 'Wannabe’s': Live Search Books and Live Search Academic," "Microsoft Will Shut Down Book Search Program," "Microsoft's Book-Search Project Has a Surprise Ending," "Post-Microsoft, Libraries Mull Digitization," "Publishers Surprised by Microsoft Move," "Why Killing Live Book Search Is Good for the Future of Books," and "Without Microsoft, British Library Keeps on Digitizing."
Latest posts in Digitization
- PALINET to Digitize 20 Million Textual Pages - October 29th, 2008
- JISC Releases Report on Book Scanners - October 22nd, 2008
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation and University of California Launch HathiTrust, Shared Digital Repository - October 13th, 2008
Latest posts in E-Books
- NetLibrary UK Library Survey Shows Strong Interest in Increasing E-Book Holdings - November 24th, 2008
- Sony's Third-Generation E-Book Reader, the PRS-700 - October 3rd, 2008
- Open Knowledge Foundation Virtual Meeting on Open Textbooks - October 2nd, 2008
Latest posts in Mass Digitizaton
- Federal Judge John Sprizzo Tentatively Approves Google-AAP/AG Settlement - November 18th, 2008
- A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries & the Google Library Project Settlement - November 14th, 2008
- Georgia Harper on the Google-AAP/AG Copyright Settlement - November 6th, 2008
Latest posts in Scholarly Books
- Digital Video: Future of the Book: Can the Endangered Monograph Survive? - November 22nd, 2008
- Six New Open Access Books Available from Michigan's digitalculturebooks - October 24th, 2008
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation and University of California Launch HathiTrust, Shared Digital Repository - October 13th, 2008
Latest posts in Search Engines
- Federal Judge John Sprizzo Tentatively Approves Google-AAP/AG Settlement - November 18th, 2008
- A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries & the Google Library Project Settlement - November 14th, 2008
- Reference Extract: The Librarian-Recommendation-Weighted Search Engine - November 9th, 2008
