Amazon scores 40,000 books from UMichigan
Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Internet retailer, reached an agreement with the University of Michigan to print copies of thousands of books in the school’s collection whose copyrights have expired, the university said in a statement July 21.
People will be able to buy copies of the books that will be printed on demand by Amazon’s BookSurge unit. More than 400,000 titles are included in the agreement, covering books in more than 200 languages.
The university will set the price for the books, and revenue will be shared between the school and BookSurge.
Among the titles that will be offered is “Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not,” written in 1860 by Florence Nightingale. Many of the books covered by the agreement have been “generally unavailable for a century or more,” Paul N. Courant, the university’s librarian and dean of libraries, said in the statement.
The books will generally cost between $10 and $45, depending on length. (AP photo)
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