Internet Archive Offers One Million Works for the Blind and Print-Impaired - 5/6/2010 - Library Journal

"Today, the Internet Archive (IA) announced that one million books are being made available to blind, dyslexic, and print impaired people, as well as an international book donation campaign to further bolster its stores....Though the IA is synonymous in many circles with the public domain, this effort...stems from an exception to the U.S. code concerning copyright that allows works to be copied for the purpose of making a work accessible....[A]s IA founder Brewster Kahle told LJ, the project entails a new scale of offerings, more than doubling the number of works available in a single place...."We're taking the [IA's] mass digitization project, and reformatting it for the print disabled," Kahle said. But it also works the other way around: the more books added and converted to the DAISY format, the more raw material to work with in building a robust platform for the Open Library, both in terms of the works themselves as well as bibliographic data to work with...."