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beppe · 03-13-2010, 01:43 PM

The interest of the deal lays in the antiquarian books, which are the purpose of the national libraries of Rome and Florence. For the other books Gutenberg is already doing a fantastic work.

To me this is exciting, it means being able to peruse on my PC some illuminated manuscript. I read in the paper that they will use special ultra technological equipment for the scanning and will hire a team of 100 specialists to handle the precious books. The Italians insisted on running the operation in place so that the books will not have to travel around.

To me, the question of copyright is important when books are not available simply because the publisher and the distribution chain drops them. For instance, I love the early books of Lawrence Sanders. They do not exist anymore. I have a number of them in print, stacked away somewhere in the attic, to increase the entropy of the universe, and I would like so much to be able to re-read them for the nth time on the reader. May be my grand child will read them on MR in 50 years.

03-13-2010, 01:43 PM	#7
beppe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,161 Karma: 81026524 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Italy Device: Kindle3, Ipod4, IPad2	The interest of the deal lays in the antiquarian books, which are the purpose of the national libraries of Rome and Florence. For the other books Gutenberg is already doing a fantastic work. To me this is exciting, it means being able to peruse on my PC some illuminated manuscript. I read in the paper that they will use special ultra technological equipment for the scanning and will hire a team of 100 specialists to handle the precious books. The Italians insisted on running the operation in place so that the books will not have to travel around. To me, the question of copyright is important when books are not available simply because the publisher and the distribution chain drops them. For instance, I love the early books of Lawrence Sanders. They do not exist anymore. I have a number of them in print, stacked away somewhere in the attic, to increase the entropy of the universe, and I would like so much to be able to re-read them for the nth time on the reader. May be my grand child will read them on MR in 50 years. Last edited by beppe; 03-13-2010 at 01:47 PM.