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Google was not the first company to consider scanning printed products for a digital archive, but there has
certainly been a rush of initiatives launched since Google gained so much notoriety for its Google Print Libraries
program. The latest
announcement comes from the Library of Congress, which is seeking to build a so-called World Digital Library, a
multilingual project involving the digitization of all kinds of objects and recordings. Google has donated $3MUSD to
the project.
So here’s the landscape of literature digitization:
The Library of Congress World Digital Library.
The
Open Content Alliance is backed by
Microsoft,
Yahoo!, and the Internet Archive.
Amazon is reportedly
building a page-purchase commercial service with publishers.
Random House is building its own book-search and
page-purchase system.
Google is pushing forward with its library-scanning project in the face of
publisher
lawsuits.
Various European countries
sulk over Google Print and threaten/promise to build their own systems.
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