Open Library is an online project intended to create “one web page for every book ever published”. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.
The website was relaunched adding ADA compliance and offering over 1 million modern and older books to the print disabled in May 2010.
Tens of thousands of modern books were made avail...
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Open Library is an online project intended to create “one web page for every book ever published”. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.
The website was relaunched adding ADA compliance and offering over 1 million modern and older books to the print disabled in May 2010.
Tens of thousands of modern books were made available from 4 and then 150 libraries and publishers for digital lending.
Its book information is collected from the Library of Congress, other libraries, and Amazon.com, as well as from user contributions through a Wiki-like interface. If books are available in digital form, a button labelled "Read" appears next to its catalog listing. Links to where books can be purchased or borrowed are also provided.
There are different entities in the database:
Open Library claims to have 6 million authors and 20 million books (not works), and about one...
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