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BookServer: A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books
October 20, 2009 - 10:16am — Blake
RWW Points Out The Internet Archive has just unveiled their ambitious project called BookServer, which will allow users to find, buy, or borrow digital books from sources all across the web. The system, built on an open architecture and using open book formats, promises that the books housed there will work on any device whether that's a laptop, PC, smartphone, game console, or one of the myriad of e-Readers like Amazon's Kindle.
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One can only hope this one works
Kahle and the IA are great at announcing ambitious new plans--for example, the Open Content Alliance, with big supporters and the potential to make Google Books look like a sideshow.
The hard part is the followthrough. I wish them well.