The Open
Content Alliance offers what appears to be higher-quality scanning than Google's and numerous display options, including simple text (which is the best type to view when you want to copy and paste) as well as PDF and DjVu (a high-resolution, high-compression program).
According to Publishers Weekly, publicly available print materials in the libraries will be scanned, digitised and indexed to make them accessible to customers, with the support of the Open
Content Alliance (OCA).
Working in conjunction with the Open
Content Alliance, whose participants include Internet company Yahoo Inc, the new service aims to provide users with access to approximately 150,000 pieces of published material.
CMG's
Content Alliance Program is designed to establish broad-ranging marketing partnerships with content providers who are interested in the mobile Internet market.
with the Open
Content Alliance (www.opencontentalliance.org), are taking previous book-archiving efforts to a new level.
In response, Yahoo has recently teamed with the University of California, the University of Toronto, the National Archive in England, Microsoft and others to create the Open
Content Alliance.