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CloudLibrary was created in 2011 by 3M as part of its library systems unit as a competitor to OverDrive, Inc.; in 2015 3M sold the North American part of that unit to Bibliotheca Group GmbH, a company founded in 2011 that was funded by One Equity Partners Capital Advisors, a division of JP Morgan Chase.
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.
In August 2003, Project Gutenberg created a CD containing approximately 600 of the "best" e-books from the collection. The CD is available for download as an ISO image. When users are unable to download the CD, they can request to have a copy sent to them, free of charge. In December 2003, a DVD was created containing nearly 10,000 items. At ...
Free download - for scientific purposes - of high quality data on attitudes, behavior, and social structure in Germany. Project Gutenberg's shelf of historic, public domain Anthropology Books; Library of Congress Resource Links on Anthropology
Its program enabling publishers and authors to include their books in the service was renamed Google Books Partner Program, [80] and the partnership with libraries became Google Books Library Project. 2006: Google added a "download a pdf" button to all its out-of-copyright, public domain books. It also added a new browsing interface along with ...
It was founded in late 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books. [2] The Baen Free Library represents an experiment in the field of intellectual property and copyright. It appears that ...
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 Online Books Page was the second substantial effort to catalog online texts, but the first to do so with the rigors required by library science. It first appeared on the Web in the summer of 1993.
Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis , but has expanded dramatically.