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Brewster Kahle
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Brewster Kahle

The Google Books homepage
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The Google Books homepage

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The Open Content Alliance is Founded

10/25/2005
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The Open Content Alliance logo

Microsoft announced on October 25, 2005 that it was joining the Open Content Alliance founded by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. The Open Content Alliance was formed partly in response to Google Print, renamed Google Books.

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Google Books:

The Google Print Project is Announced
Google Print Morphs into Google Books
Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus Compiles the First Hebrew Concordance of the Hebrew Bible
The Armed Forces Medical Library Issues the "Subject Heading Authority List," Probably the First Widely-Accepted Controlled Vocabulary
Isaac Judaeus' "De particularibus diaetis", the First Separately Printed Treatise on Diet
Sergey Brin Promotes the Accessibility and "Permanence" of Digital Libraries
Jean-Pierre Gérault Forms a French Alternative to Google Books
Thomas Astle Issues the First English History of Paleography and Diplomatics
Google Calculates That There are "129,864,880" Different Books in the World
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