Google Inc. will give two million books in its digital library can reappear in the print world.
As part of an agreement announced Wednesday, Google opened part of its index to the inventor of a high speed printer that can produce a paperback book and 300 pages in less than five minutes. The new service is a recognition that not everyone wants to read his books on a computer or on a digital readout as those manufactured by Sony Corp. and Amazon.com Inc.
The fastest printer called "Espresso Book Machine" and has several years running, but may charge notoriety now has access to many books scanned from some of the largest libraries in the world. And On Demand Books, owner of Espresso, could get access to texts more difficult to achieve if Google gets court approval to the settlement of a class action that gives the right to sell print books.
"This is a key event for us," Dane said Nelle, executive director of On Demand Books, watching a demonstration of the espresso machine Wednesday at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Some of the books that Google has spent the last five years for scanning into digital format back to their origin on paper.
"It's like the circle was completed," said Google spokeswoman Jennie Johnson. "This will allow the public to get the physical copy of a book even if only one or two copies in a library in this country, or if not available here at all."
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