The books Amazon will offer will include many rare volumes — some that are hundreds of years old and others that are too brittle to be handled by people day after day. With digital scanning and printing technology, such books can be reproduced for anyone who wants to buy them. —Dan Carnevale —Amazon Will Digitize Universities’ Books and Sell Print-on-Demand Copies (Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription))
I wonder if they will reprint books with personal annotations — that is, if Thomas Jefferson scribbled notes in the margins of a book, would it be possible to get your own copy of the book, with Jefferson’s notes reproduced along with the book text?
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