To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:42:17 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New mass market pb format
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:52:42 -0500 Sam Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net>
writes:

> On any other list, I'd have to defend the idea that someone would
> want to
> have 5,000 books available instantly.  You could only read a book at
> a
> time.  Well the iPod users can only listen to one song at a time
> too.
>

Google has started a project to digitize and index out-of-copyright
books, making them accessible via a search function on the web.
Eventually, that could mean vastly more than 5,000 books accessible for
the cost of an internet connection.  Thereby a billion or more people
could each have a library of hundreds of thousands of volumes.

Ron Kean

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