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Bookmate Limited owned majority stakes in two book publishers, Individuum and Popcorn Books (both profitable), which it had to sell due to political risks. [17] In an interview with Meduza , Andrew Baev said that Russia has never been the main market for Bookmate, and the company continues to work in the Balkans, Latin America, and Europe.
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
It also ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore. [9] In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital copies of their work online. [10] That same month, the site partnered with Simon & Schuster to sell e-books on Scribd. [11]
The Library of Babel website attracted the attention of scholars, particularly those working at the juncture of humanities and digital media. [10] [11] [12] Zac Zimmer wrote in Do Borges's librarians have bodies: "Basile's is perhaps the most absolutely dehumanizing of all Library visualizations, in that beyond being driven to suicidal madness or philosophical resignation, his Librarians have ...
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle. [1] [2] [4] It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and open Internet.
Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis , but has expanded dramatically.
It was founded in late 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books. [2] The Baen Free Library represents an experiment in the field of intellectual property and copyright. It appears that ...
You've heard the stories about people discovering rare books, netting the unsuspecting owner hundreds, maybe even thousands, of dollars.Believe it or not, you don't have to have an antique book on ...