Bibliofile writes “HarperCollins to digitize 20,000 of its books
Publisher plans to hold on to copies and let search engines catalog them
The publisher has invited proposals from vendors to carry out the contract to digitize some 20,000 or more books in the global back-catalogue as well as the 3,500 to 5,000 new books it publishes each year.
“We just don’t know how many millions (of dollars) this will be and we won’t know that until we get responses,” said Brian Murray, group president of HarperCollins Publishers.
“We hope to have a few thousand books available by the middle of next year,” he told Reuters.
Under the plan, HarperCollins will hold all the digital copies of its books in a digital warehouse and it will allow companies such as Google, Yahoo and Amazon.com to crawl the server to create an index, Murray said. This will allow Google and other search systems to offer what, in effect, amount to electronic card catalogs to help users locate the full work. For full story link to:
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