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Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
The Internet Archive is an American non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. [2] [3] [4] It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a free and open ...
Feedbooks was a digital library and cloud publishing service for both public domain and original books founded in June 2007 and based in Paris, France. [1] The main focus of the web site is providing e-books with particularly high-quality typesetting in multiple formats, particularly EPUB, Kindle, and PDF formats.
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
Open Course Library (OCL) is an effort by the State of Washington to identify and make available digitally, to community and technical college instructors and students across that state, free textbooks, interactive assignments, and videos. Instructional materials can be "a smorgasbord of teaching modules and exercises developed by other open ...
The Online Books Page is an index of e-text books available on the Internet. [1] It is edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and is hosted by the library of the University of Pennsylvania . [ 2 ] The Online Books Page lists over 2 million books [ 3 ] and has several features, such as A Celebration of Women Writers and Banned Books Online .
The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.. The WDL has stated that its mission is to promote international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to build capacity in partner ...
Standard Ebooks produces e-books by following a unified style guide, which specifies everything from typography standards to semantic tagging and internal code structure, with the goal of creating a consistent corpus, aligned with modern publishing standards and "cleaned of ancient and irrelevant ephemera [example needed]."