Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:03:07 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New mass market pb format
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> 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.

Now if this could only be combined with Project Gutenberg...

-- Dick Eney