When it comes to presenting digitized books on the Web, we want to make our choice with our own criteria.

Profits from sales of the digitized books are to be shared with the library.

In return, online booksellers like Barnesandnoble.com are moving into the publishers' business, printing digitized books themselves and selling their own electronic editions.

Yet the limits of the technology available for reading digitized books may be working in the industry's favor.

Earlier Proceedings of the Annual Convention are available as digitized books.

As of late 2009, this archive had nearly 50,000 digitized books, with approximately 5,000 new titles being posted online every two months on average.

Reddy hopes to reach a million digitized books in two years.

In any case, I make no claims for its accuracy in general, but based on its corpus of digitized books, that's what it shows.

They can just write their own digitized book and sell it that way.

The project could add millions of digitized books that would be available exclusively via Google.