[nukkad] [nukkad] NETLIBRARY

["V.S. RAWAT" <WPC-VSR@PPW.ltindia.com>]

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From: "earthman" <hardjube@ihug.co.nz>

netLibrary.com has complete texts of more than ten thousand books
available online today, and the company says it will be adding
books at the rate of 200 a day before long. The nifty part is that
you can quickly search the contents of these books for words or
phrases. At a traditional library you can search the card catalog
looking for titles, authors, or subjects. You can do all of that
on netLibrary.com, plus you can search for words in the text of
each and every book. The library offers free access to about 2,800
books in the public domain. For a fee, users can also access
thousands of additional volumes still under copyright, both
through the site and through a growing number of academic and
other libraries to which the company sells the electronic
versions. The process of digitizing the books usually involves
cutting the spine off each book and feeding the pages through an
electronic reader. netLibrary.com says that they are a leader in
the field because "there are not a lot of companies that have been
willing to devote the elbow grease to doing that." Like
traditional libraries containing printed books, netLibrary.com is
very sensitive to copyrights. Users of the Web site can "check
out" an entire book, giving the user exclusive access to that one
volume for a set period of time, usually about a day. Then the
book is "returned to the shelves" and becomes available for the
next person. This concept of a single "volume" allows
netLibrary.com to operate under the same laws that allow
traditional libraries to lend printed books one at a time.
netLibrary has developed mechanisms for limiting the copying and
printing of eBooks from the Internet. Visitors can copy or print
single pages, just as people can photocopy single pages of a
printed book. However, if a user is rapidly viewing multiple pages
of an eBook -- a pattern that indicates the possibility of page-
by-page printing -- netLibrary will display a copyright notice and
instruct the user to cease his or her actions. If the pattern
continues, the account becomes disabled for a period of time, and
the event is logged for tracking purposes.

The netLibrary.com site is capable of handling 1 million users a
day, and the site's owners say that they can expand to handle 10
million, if needed. netLibrary says it makes money from its
operation primarily from academic and other institutional
customers. It also plans to begin selling books, eventually
allowing users to buy and then download entire volumes.

Anyone can join the netLibrary for free. However, those on a free
membership will only be able to read the public domain books. In
order to access the much larger "Private Collection" containing
copyrighted materials, users will have to pay $29.95 (U.S. funds)
annually.

To try the netLibrary yourself, go to   http://www.netLibrary.com

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