Thread: Sony Partners With Google To Bring More Than 500,000 Books To The Reader
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Old 03-19-2009, 02:19 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy View Post
I'm confused. Weren't the vast majority of public domain books that most people would be interested in reading already available in formats for Sony at places like feedbooks.com, here at mobileread, manybooks.net, etc? How is getting a freshly OCRed version any better than a version already proofed and formatted?
Most ebook sites draw on Project Gutenberg, which has about 100k titles. Google just added about 500k.
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