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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010

Brewster Kahle Delivers Keynote Speech at Tools of Change Conference in NYC

Paul Biba from TeleRead provides a thorough summary of what Internet Archive Founder and Man in Charge, Brewster Kahle had to say during his keynote speech today at the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in NYC.

Here are a few points, the rest are found in the full text post:

+ 1,800,000 books in the Internet Archive and it scans 1,000 books a day.

+ Costs about 10 cents a page to digitize a book and takes half an hour or so to do it.

+ Bookserver can also work with libraries and restrict number of copies of books loaned out at the same time.

+ Bookserver is not proprietary, but a set a standards for a distributed system that anyone can use.

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Source: TeleRead
(Want More Coverage of the TOC Conference? Browse the Past Two Days of TeleRead's Posts)

See Also: New From the Internet Archive: Bookserver, An Open System Allowing Users to Search Multiple eBook Catalogs from a Single Interface, Makes Crawling Easier Too! (ResourceShelf, 10/2009)

See Also: Brewster Kahle Profiled in Forbes (10/2009)

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