U of Michigan and Amazon To Offer 400,000 OOP Books 160
eldavojohn writes "Four hundred thousand rare, out of print books may soon be available for purchase ranging anywhere from $10 to $45 apiece. The article lists a rare Florence Nightingale book on Nursing which normally sells for thousands due to its rarity. The [University of Michigan] librarian, Mr. Courant said, 'The agreement enables us to increase access to public domain books and other publications that have been digitised. We are very excited to be offering this service as a new way to increase access to the rich collections of the university library.' The University of Michigan has a library where Google is scanning rare books and was the aim of heavy criticism. (Some of the Google-scanned books are to be sold on Amazon.) How the authors guild and publishers react to Amazon's Surge offering softcover reprints of out of print books remains to be seen."
Wow... (Score:5, Funny)
Public domain trampled on again (Score:5, Funny)
So Amazon is going to be so nice as to offer us the chance to PURCHASE what actually belongs in the public domain? Wow. I am impressed and excited.
Re:OOPs (Score:3, Funny)
That's why you need to read these books ;)
Every one.
Re:Wow... (Score:3, Funny)
Only one, but the catch is you have to pass it your own 'print' function.
Amazon To Offer 400,000 OOP Books (Score:3, Funny)
and subsequently delete them.