Brewster Kahle, All Icelandic literature to go online?

"Þorsteinn Hallgrímsson, formerly of the National Library of Iceland had a big idea: digitize all Icelandic literature all the way to the current day and make it available to everyone interested in reading it. The Internet Archive was eager to be a part of this bold vision....Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir the National Librarian, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the Minister of Culture, met to discuss this possibility this week. I [Brewster Kahle] have met with several other ministers and parliamentarians in the last few days to discuss how this could be done. 50,000 books which is easily scannable in 2 years by 12 people using the scribe scanners of the Internet Archive. David Lesperance, a lawyer from Canada who has helped support the Room to Read project, has offered to fundraise for this project, the Internet Archive has offered scanning technology, training, and backend software, and the Library has offered to administer the project. A digital lending system could be a way that they decide to limit access to a book to one person at a time in order to balance the interests of the writers and publishers while still having some access to everything from anywhere forever for free....If they decide to go ahead, Iceland could be the first country to have its complete literature go online. Fingers crossed...."