Google to digitize 250,000 more public domain books

Google, in collaboration with The British Library, a collection of 250,000 books to digitize. It comes to books that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are written, so the copyright is now expired.

The digitisation is part of the Google Books service, which allows users to e-books via the web can read or download for mobile devices. The books which are digitized, cover the period between 1700 and 1870, with topics such as the French Revolution, several wars, and the abolition of slavery. Converting the books to e-bookformaat’s probably going to take years. Then, the digitised variants for everyone are available for free, so claims Google.

Google brought its Books-service at the end of last year. In addition, the internetgigant already have a collection of free books, of which the copyright also expired. At the time of release were 3 million books available. In addition, Google along with forty different libraries around the world for the digitization of books. Books is available on the web and is also suitable for Android and iOS, and there are apps for various e-readers.