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May 25, 2006
German Publishers Bring On Google Print Rival
Two associations of German book publishers are asking members to join an effort to make the full text of their books available online in a new full text database.
A prototype of the project is expected to go online in October and it will cost about a million euros, according to a report in PTE.
While scenes like those on the right are not about to disappear from society, book publishers in Germany are taking pains to make sure they keep control over their online version of their content.
The technical leads on the project are two subsidiaries of Holtzbrinck, namely hgv publishing services und MPS Technologies, based in Delhi.The plan is to eventually create a retail business selling electronic versions of books.
It is all about control. Here's what the initiators said:
The companies Google and Amazon are offering to deal with this task for publishing companies
by providing the digitisation, storing, search and limited presentation of full texts on their respective websites, to be followed by options linking to the corresponding sales channels. With these proposed solutions, control of access to book contents is restricted to these providers.
Read -
Volltextsuche online: Prototyp im Oktober 2006
Read- Fulltext Search Online Project (press release)
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