Re: Competition for Amazon's "Search Inside" coming?

Just another step towards a completely electronical library.  It won't
be long before all books are offered over the internet in web form. 
Ebooks are still on the rise.

-Elan
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--- In [email protected], "Kent S. Larsen II" <kent@...>
wrote:
>
>
>
> From May's BISG Bulletin, released today:
>
>
> Standardizing the Discovery of Books Online
>
> Proof of concept phase will get underway shortly.
>
> Representatives of more than 40 leading companies including Harper
Collins,
> Random House, Ingram, Google, Barnes & Noble, Microsoft, and Bowker
have
> been at work in BISG's Digital Standards Committee developing ways to
> standardize how book content is discovered online.
>
> The group, chaired by Leslie Hulse of HarperCollins, has been at work
on a
> standard that encourages the search, discovery, and retrieval of
online
> book content and that also allows publishers to manage the quality and
> availability of that content. Work is nearing completion on a set of
HTTP
> transactions between a publisher s digital archive and the websites of
> syndication partners such as booksellers and search engines.
>
> BISG's Board of Directors approved the approach and the technical
> specification at its meeting on May 8. Before the standard is
published
> later in the summer, there will be a proof of concept phase in which
the
> transactions will be tested by a group of volunteer companies.
>
> You will be hearing more about the work and the standard in the next
few
> months. In the meantime, if you would like more information about the
> standard or would like to sign up as a member of the Digital Standards
> Committee, please contact Michael Healy in the BISG office by emailing
> michael@...
>




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