The mass digitization of books promises to bring tremendous value to consumers, libraries, scholars, and students. The Open Book Alliance will work to advance and protect this promise. And, by protecting it, we will assert that any mass book digitization and publishing effort be open and competitive. The Open Book Alliance will counter Google, the Association of American Publishers and the Authors’ Guild’s scheme to monopolize the access, distribution and pricing of the largest digital database of books in the world. To this end, we will promote fair and flexible solutions aimed at achieving a more robust and open system. Leadership: Peter Brantley, Gary Reback
Hindawi is a rapidly growing academic publisher with 150+ Open Access journals covering all major areas of science, technology, and medicine, and a book publishing program that spans all scholarly disciplines.
Book download library has indexed the Project Gutenberg catalog of downloadable ebooks with conceptual tag clouds. The index contains free books in several formats that you can read on many eBook readers and phones like the Kindle and iPhone. Our index lets you to browse book titles, authors, and subjects by word. Simply click on any word in our title index and you'll see books that contain that word in the title. In addition, you'll get a tag cloud that shows you other words used in context with your selected word. Weight is given to words that are related to the same concept as your search word so you can easily find the book you want to download. Our author list is catalogued by both first and last name. So if all you know is the last name of an author you can search for it and see a tag cloud with first names of authors matching your search. You can also browse books by subject with our subject catalog. Click on any subject tag to see the subjects and books matching the tag.
Let's divide content into two broad groups: Content without well-defined form (Formless Content), and Content with well-defined form (Definite Content). Formless Content can be reflowed into different formats and not lose any intrinsic meaning. It's content divorced from layout. Most novels and works of non-fiction are Formless. Content with form — Definite Content — is almost totally the opposite of Formless Content. Most texts composed with images, charts, graphs or poetry fall under this umbrella. It may be reflowable, but depending on how it’s reflowed, inherent meaning and quality of the text may shift.