Google Print Not All I Said It Was

Barbara Quint has an Interesting Post on Google Print. She says Google does not supply participants in the Google Print program with digital, “e-book” versions of the print books digitized from publisher inventories or library collections. Publishers receive no digital copies of any kind. The five giant research libraries working with Google Print for Libraries do receive digital page images and text files representing the OCR (optical character recognition) of the text. However, these are not anything like e-books, e.g., PDF downloadable files.

August 30, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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