"The physical to digital conversion of books just got a lot cheaper with the launch of 1DollarScan.com, based in San Jose, California. An offshoot of the immensely successful BookScan in Japan, 1DollarScan does exactly what its name implies: it scans your documents for a dollar. 100 pages of a book, 10 pages of a business document, 10 business card, etc – you just mail the text in and 1DollarScan will email you back a PDF. While the transition away from print media has been proceeding a pace for a while now, a cheap book scanning service in the US means that thousands of personal libraries will be converted to ones and zeroes, pushing us ever closer to a world where all printed books (Gutenberg to Gladwell) belong in a museum." - × × ×

“Whether 1DollarScan’s success (or failure) comes from legal uses or not, however, their entry into the US market shows how far along into the death of print we are. Honestly, we might as well be shopping for a tombstone. Not only have major periodical publications announced they are making the switch, not only have digital sales continued to climb unchallenged, not only have libraries started to launch massive digital lending projects, but now we have companies looking to fill niche market applications. Wherever print media tries to hide, some new business is hunting it down to deal it a deathblow. In a generation (or less) the only printed materials we’ll buy are those whose value is intrinsically linked to their physical form. If it’s not ancient, gilded, or unique there’s no reason why the digital copy won’t do as nicely.” - × × ×

Ох, в какой же ранней стадии своей жизни они сейчас! URL страницы с заказом: https://ss1.coressl.jp/1dollar... - earlyadopter

Ну да, классический микростартап такой, всё на коленке и вручную. :) Меня это радует тем, что если модель вышла из обсуждения и пошла в ход, несмотря на угрозы со стороны юридического оформления, значит, через два-три года в фаланстере (и в паре других человеческих и несетевых книжных) могут появиться и полки с книгами, и каталоги сканированных файлов. Это очень большая радость. - × × ×