Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

According to a discussion on Hacker News, Anna's Archive, a digital library preservation project, has announced a two-hundred-thousand-dollar bounty for comprehensive scans of Google Books and similar digitized book collections. The initiative has attracted attention from developers and open-access advocates, generating significant community engagement. The bounty represents a major investment in expanding access to digitized texts, though the effort navigates a legally contested space between preservation and copyright.

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