Just at the moment when Sony and Barnes & Noble’s e-readers are set to compete with Amazon’s Kindle, it seems that Amazon will face stiff competition in book-searching and selling as well. Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, may help to topple Amazon’s dominance with Bookserver, an open system that enables search engines to index books from a range of sources. Libraries, publishers and individual authors will all be able to index, distribute, and in some cases sell their books through Bookserver.
What do you think this portends for the future of publishing?
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