Re: WorldCat Works Data

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:10 AM, LAURA DAWSON <ljndawson@gmail.com> wrote:

> The other, larger, kill factor was the problem of linking together
> competing editions – two major publishers flat-out refused to do it.
>

Thankfully publishers don't have any control over things like Freebase,
OpenLibrary or OCLC, so this will happen whether they like it or not -- and
for public domain works, some of those "competing" editions will be free
ones hosted at Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive.

Tom