Friday, November 04, 2005

Microsoft, British Libary strike content deal

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

US software kingpin Microsoft has forged a "strategic partnership" to digitise 25 million pages of content from the British Library in London, the Financial Times reported.

Microsoft is to invest 2.5 million dollars in the venture next year as "an initial investment" in a long-term project that will kick off with the initial scanning of 10,000 books.

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