Google scans books from the British Library
Google scans 250 000 works from the collections of the British Library.The digital books are available to users free of charge.Google digitizes a portion of the holdings of the British Library .That’s what the British National Library and the Internet companies have agreed upon.
When the books are works from the period between 1700 and 1870 in various European languages.Including, for example, is a unique collection of texts from the time of the French Revolution.The copyright protection of books has already expired.
Google pays
The books will be scanned at an undisclosed location.Google wanted the British newspaper Daily Telegraph revealed not even know in which country are the scanners of the company.Google is also the cost of digitization.
Users can digitized books later, both about the offer Google Books and look on the website of the library itself is free.
British Library on the iPhone
The British Library strives to make their older collections digitally accessible: Recently it has an app for the iPhone released, free of charge to users around 1,000 titles from the 19thCentury can be read.In the course of the year, followed by a paid version that provides access to over 60,000 titles.
Earlier this year the library has the smartphone app Treasures released.This enables users of Android devices , iPhones and iPads especially nice collection of documents from the British Library, including the Lindisfarne Gospels or the Magna Carta, watching on their mobile device.