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ZDNet on The British Library. They are to beef up its online activities by selling millions of rare books from its collections in a collaboration with e-commerce
site Amazon.co.uk, the library said on Monday.
The library, part of the British Museum, will make 2.5 million rare and antique titles available to the public via Amazon’s Web site, including
first-edition novels and centuries-old sheet music. The library already sells rare books and manuscripts through traditional channels.”
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Hi there,
Saw the story about British Library selling off rare books online.
If you look at their website and news release – http://www.bl.uk/cgi-bin/press.cgi?story=1391
it says that it is the bibliographic catalogue details that are available to Amazon to “underpin and support the marketplace service” making buying and selling books easier for third-party sellers. So it’s not the books themselves being sold (well not yet anyway…..)