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Open Library
Online project for book data of the Internet Archive / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz,[3][4] Brewster Kahle,[5] Alexis Rossi,[6] Anand Chitipothu,[6] and Rebecca Malamud,[6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Open Library provides online digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of many public domain, out-of-print, and in-print books.
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Type of site | Digital library index |
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Available in | English, Czech, German, French, Croatian Italian, Portuguese, Telugu, Chinese, Ukrainian |
Founder(s) | Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Malamud |
Revenue | Donation |
URL | openlibrary |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Free |
Launched | 2006; 18 years ago (2006) |
Current status | Active |
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