Archive for August 27th, 2009
Google Opens Up ePub Archive; A Million Books for Free no comments
Posted at 10:36 am in Random
Google announced yesterday in their Inside Google Books blog that they will be making their collection of over one million public domain ebooks available for free download in the epub format. Until now these books were only available in PDF. The epub format will make these ebooks accessible to more devices, however digitizing the books into the epub format requires using OCR (optical character recognition). OCR technology has been improving over the years, but I suspect that you can expect to see a few errors.
