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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Does the IA have school textbooks in their collection?
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Yes. It may be an older edition.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
. . . why hasn't a single real library done so?
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Because Open Library is doing it for them. Many U.S. libraries put a link to it on their web site:
https://hchlibrary.org/services/e-books/
https://libraries.blogs.delaware.gov...brary-e-books/
https://www.maine.gov/msl/libs/tech/ereads/intarc.htm
Other U.S. libraries do not, perhaps reflecting differing opinions among people of good-will.
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Funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation, the non-profit Open Libraries' reformatting program accepts donated books and other materials from libraries, digitizes this content in its scanning centers, makes those materials available to the public via controlled lending at openlibrary.org, and provides a set of the digitized files to the donor library, explained Chris Freeland, director of Open Libraries.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Why are they paying through the nose for eBook editions, and having some titles restricted from being available at all, if they could simply bypass all the limits whenever they wanted?
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OpenLibrary lacks new titles. Uncorrected scans abound with errors. And takedown requests are often honored.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
I'm totally sceptical that it runs even 1/2 on donations.
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Googling, I found this non-donation revenue source, and was confused by it:
revenue from its Web crawling services. Does anyone know what that means?
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
They aren't sued because it costs money to fight a suit and there is no way to recover it.
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Wikipedia says 2017 revenue was $17.8 million. And they have a known U.S. address. Sounds suable to me.
In the absence of an emergency, I might not endorse every one of their practices. But I think their motives are good and that home educational support, during this emergency, is urgent.