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Books: The next file-sharing frontier

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

So Microsoft is winding down its book digitization and search project (and its related academic research project) because it wants to focus on verticals that have a “high commercial intent.” In other words, there’s no money in book scanning. That presumably ... Continue reading »

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  • Amongst others, Rapidshare, Icefile and Depositfile already contain masses of copied books. Though limited to the kind of books bought by geeks (i.e. self-improvement and technology) the concept is definitely already there.

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