Earlier this year when the University of Michigan announced that they would sell over 400,000 public domain books scanned from their collection in a partnership with BookSurge/Amazon, they made it clear this first agreement was a nonexclusive relationship. Now Hewlett Packard has officially announced their BookPrep service, which prepares scanned books for print-on-demand and online viewing, which even includes “a rich set of predefined cover templates.” The University of Michigan is one of HP’s partners, helping to drive the availability for sale of almost 500,000 public domain books and counting. HP says their process “significantly drives down the cost of […]
