The Kirtas–BookSurge book digitization program has arrived, digitizing books from four libraries using Kirtas’ automated book scanning equipment and BookSurge’s position as an on-demand publishing subsidiary of Amazon.com.
Open Access News has a great overview of it, including why it might be a better deal for the libraries involved than Google’s own project.
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