BBC News reports that The British Library in cooperation with Microsoft, is preparing some 100.000 old books to go online.

The books are 19th century books which belong in the public domain — to avoid copyright infringements.

Google is also working in the digitizing of books department, but with other libraries: Stanford, Harvard, and Michigan university libraries, the New York public library and the Bodleian library in Oxford.

Read the BBC News article for more information.

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Tags: Books, Google, Libraries, Microsoft, The British Library

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