The Internet Archive announced on December 20, 2006 that it had achieved a milestone in having digitized and made available to date, a total of 100,000 books on its servers. The bulk of these books are from members of the Open Content Alliance. All are available without restriction to public access and enjoyment. A copy of the press release can be seen at the right. Within hours of the release, over 60 news organizations had picked up the AP newswire story. Congratulations to all

CNN.com
Google library: open culture?
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/12/19/google.books.ap

Seattle PI
A countercrusade to Google’s crusade
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/296561_digitallibrary20.html

KESQ
Google’s book-scanning efforts trigger philosophical debate
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5837749&nav=9qrx

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