toccon-bug.gif Bookserver is in technology demo basis. 1,800,000 books in the Internet Archive and it scans 1,000 books a day. Costs about 10 cents a page to digitize a book and takes half an hour or so to do it. Public domain is about 20% books, 70% out of print and 10% in print. Bookserver aimed at out of print and in print books. A distributed system for lending and vending on the internet. Laptop to search engine to find book, and goes to holder of the book. OLPC now has access to Internet Archive books. Kindle will connect to a search engine and download book from Feedbooks with no Amazon involved. Can do it on an iPhone too. The end website must be Bookserver enabled. Works with for pay books too. Will also work with DAISY reader for both in print and out of print and will access entire Internet Archive set of books directly. Bookserver can also work with libraries and restrict number of copies of books loaned out at the same time. Bookserver is not proprietary, but a set a standards for a distributed system that anyone can use.

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