Comments on: NY Public Library and Kirtas team to make 500K public domain books freely available http://www.teleread.com/library/ny-public-library-and-kirtas-team-to-make-500k-public-domain-books-freely-available/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:02:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Ward http://www.teleread.com/library/ny-public-library-and-kirtas-team-to-make-500k-public-domain-books-freely-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1146097 Michael Ward Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:08:36 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=29797#comment-1146097 While this indeed a service to people who absolutely need to have access to a particular book which is unavailable anywhere else, it should be noted that it is a service you will pay for, and the price to the customer is not mentioned. I doubt it will be cheap. Of course, it will be cheaper than flying to NYC and scanning the book yourself ... assuming they would let you do that. While this indeed a service to people who absolutely need to have access to a particular book which is unavailable anywhere else, it should be noted that it is a service you will pay for, and the price to the customer is not mentioned. I doubt it will be cheap.

Of course, it will be cheaper than flying to NYC and scanning the book yourself … assuming they would let you do that.

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