Yahoo is taking on Google with its own digital archive of books, audio and video.As part of the Open Content Alliance, Yahoo will help digitise 18,000 works of American literature plus material from national and European archives.
As well as Yahoo, the Open Content Alliance also includes the non-profit Internet Archive, libraries from the universities of California and Toronto, Adobe and Hewlett-Packard.
The information to be digitised will include books, speeches, audio, video and music.
The Open Content Alliance said it would start with works that were in the public domain as well as those books in copyright that their owners were happy to be freely browsable online.
The core of the Open Content Alliance library will be 18,000 classic works of American literature that include writing by Mark Twain, Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe.
The end result will be a huge online collection freely available to web users. The first works to be digitised should be online by the end of the year and all 18,000 works should be available through the net by the close of 2006.
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