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A Library to End All Libraries
Publishers are building an online system that will give readers more
choices
BusinessWeek Online
JULY 23, 2001
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_30/b3742031.htm

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A project with the off-putting name of the Digital Object Identifier for
eBooks aims to remove such constraints. Backed by publishers (including The
Companies, owner of BusinessWeek), professional societies, and tech
companies, the approach assigns a unique number, the Digital Object
Identifier (DOI), to all published material.

The DOI consists of two parts: a prefix that identifies the publisher, and
a publisher-created suffix unique to the work. Books, for example, will
probably use International Standard Book Numbers as suffixes. When a
browser hits a DOI, it uses the prefix to find the publisher's database,
then fetches information that could include catalog data, an excerpt,
reviews, and links to places to buy it.

-- 
Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain
Regards
brd
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
brd@dynamite.com.au
brd@austarmetro.com.au

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