Swell France

Here's another country -- and not an easy one -- to add to the number of national libraries digitizing lists of books, according to The Digital Reader: France. Quoting: The list is the work of ReLIRE, a new division of the Bibliothèque National de France. ReLire was created and authorized by the French Parliament in February 2012 with the purpose of identifying out of print titles from the 20th century, digitizing them, and getting them back into the market. So, so far in 2013, we've reported in this blog, that the Dutch, English and French national libraries have begun to digitize hundreds of thousands of books. That's a huge swell. However, the Digital Reader author, Nate Hoffelder, writes: I’m not reporting on this list to criticize the French govt (sic) for this project, but I do want to warn authors that they need to start paying attention. In 6 months time the titles on this list will be digitized, handed over to a collection society, and released on to the ebook market.