Friday, 6. August 2010
Topic: GOOGLE - on August 6, 2010 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
129,864,880 books
How many books are there? 129,864,880.
When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?”
Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean by a “book.” We’re not going to count what library scientists call “works,” those elusive "distinct intellectual or artistic creations.” It makes sense to consider all editions of “Hamlet” separately, as we would like to distinguish between -- and scan -- books containing, for example, different forewords and commentaries.
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