The Society for Preservation of Hebrew Books & HebrewBooks.org (about page)

This non-profit has a mission to preserve all Torah Seforim ever printed. So far they have 11,000 classical Hebrew books available for download.

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PublishYourSefer.com – About Our Reprints Program

This company partners with HebrewBooks.org and Lulu.com (disclosure: I am an employee of Lulu) to offer on-demand reprinting for over 12,000 books. Wow! How is this done?…

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Lulu Web Services (Lulu API)

This is accomplished through the Lulu api, which “allows partners and outside developers to programmatically publish books.” Given that Lulu authors maintain full ownership of their books, why can’t libraries offer on-demand reprints of digitized books?

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JudaicaOnDemand.com – Judaica and seforim print on demand services for libraries, bookstores, publishers and others

PublishYourSefer’s sister site, They offer consulting and services for digitizing collections, using print on demand to “monetize” collections, Also have periodicals and books for purchase.

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[CODE4LIB] Using OpenID in libraries

A discussion. (Thanks Jay)

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