They had print books that were not otherwise available as ebooks. This has been immensely useful for my research. I have a feeling that I have a whole lot more interlibrary loans in my future.
> They had print books that were not otherwise available as ebooks.
Including pirate sources? I know they had a lot of ebooks that had no official and legitimate ebook, I encountered many of those, but in every case I was able to find the same scanned book somewhere else without the DRM. Probably the same scan I'm guessing, stripped of DRM or maybe uploaded elsewhere by the same person who scanned it for IA.
Yes, including pirate sources. There's a lot of academic work from circa 1970-1990 that publishers don't care to make available as ebooks and are too obscure for pirates to have any interest in digitizing.
