USA: Michigan University sells digital titles on Booksurge
July 1st, 2009
By Emma Jackson
The University of Michigan's library has partnered with Booksurge, the print-on-demand service owned by Internet retailer Amazon Inc., to make thousands of rare and out-of-print books available for one-off printing through digitisation.
Customers will be able to browse over 400,00 titles on Amazon.com, where the digital files can be printed on demand by Booksurge and shipped to the buyer in as little as two days.
All of the titles are public domain, and were scanned into digital files through the university's internal scanning programme and a ...
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