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Microsoft hands future to Google
Microsoft has handed the future of the book to arch-rival Google, according to the Register. It has also left the Open Content Alliance digitisation project high and dry.
"Why? Because the Open Content Alliance is out of money - and Microsoft was by far the biggest financial backer. Brewster Kahle, whose Internet Archive project is a key OCA member, admitted the financial impact of Microsoft's withdrawal was 'significant' and that the Alliance now needed fresh resources to keep the scanners running. The initial $10m was almost completely exhausted."
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