Library books for keeps

Published on 23 June 2009 at 10:08

Spain's National Library has launched a customised service in collaboration with the online-publishing website Bubok. According to the daily ABC, users of the service will be able to order print-on-demand copies of masterpieces from the *Biblioteca DigitalHispánica***, the library's online archive. The agreement, which is the first of its kind in the world, currently gives access to 85 of the 18,000 works in the archive. "The books were selected on a range of themes with advice from a group of experts" explains library director Milagros del Corral. In the near future Del Corral is planning to develop the project in collaboration with online bookseller Amazon, so as to bring Spanish culture "to a wider community of users."

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