"Invest in Knowledge is a new and innovative (patent pending) program that allows anyone to subsidize the digitization of the world's knowledge one book at a time and to receive 5% of all future sales of that book through Kirtasbooks.com. You will receive a reprint of that book as well as the ongoing 5%. You can invest in as many books as they would like."

Hmmm...I wonder how many takers they might have

"ROCHESTER, N.Y., JUNE 16, 2009 - Kirtas Technologies, the worldwide leader in bound-book digitization, and OCLC, a global online library service and research organization; have signed an agreement that will enable streamlined access to the ever-increasing numbers of digitized books to users of OCLC's WorldCat and Kirtasbooks.com.

As part of the agreement, OCLC will now be able to provide its users with data indicating that a book is either available as digitized content or that it can be made available for digitization."

Palinet Sloan Mass digitization project

"The University of Pennsylvania (UP) libraries announced that it is teaming up with Kirtas Technologies, a scanning and digitization company, to try something a little bit different: selling a product that doesn't (yet) exist. Under the new partnership, users will be able to order custom print-on-demand (PoD) editions of the more than 200,000 texts among the Penn library's public domain holdings. The twist: nothing will get scanned until an order is placed. Unlike Google's large-scale Book Search scanning project, this digitization effort will be driven entirely by end-users."

By Julie Linden and Anne Green at Yale. 

Digitization has the potential to transform scholarly use of data found in print statistical publications. While presenting images of statistical tables in a digital library environment may be desirable, the full potential of such material can be realized only if the resulting digital objects are easy to search and manipulate and are accompanied by sufficient metadata to support extraction of numbers from tables and comparison of numbers across tables.