Agreement signed for digitization out of print french books of the twentieth century

摘要

Frederic Mitterrand, Ministry for Culture and Communication, Rene Ricol, Commissioner-General of investment attached to the Prime Minister, Bruno Racine, President of the National Library of France, Antoine Gallimard, President of the French Publishers Association (Syndicat national de l'Edition), and Jean-Claude Bologne, President of the French Society of Literary Authors (Societe des Gens de Lettres) have signed a framework agreement reflecting the will to give new life, through digitization, to copyrighted out of print books of the twentieth century. The aim is to digitize and make available for sale online, a corpus of 500,000 books within five years.