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I'd also like to know why they have 160 employees. That's more people than any company I've ever worked for. What do all of these people do? I'm genuinely curio
by krig 15y ago
I'd also like to know why they have 160 employees. That's more people than any company I've ever worked for. What do all of these people do? I'm genuinely curious.
- britta 15y agoThe Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive) says: "It has a staff of 200, most of whom are book scanners in its book scanning centers. Its main office in San Francisco houses about 30 employees." The site has a list of employees with descriptions: http://www.archive.org/about/bios.php http://www.archive.org/about/bios.php A blog post about its scanning centers: https://ianews.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/3-million-texts-for-free/ https://ianews.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/3-million-texts-for-... "More than 100 people digitize books in Internet Archive scanning centers in 27 libraries in 6 countries. At 10 cents a page, we are bringing over 1,000 new books online every day."
- krig 15y agoAh! I didn't know they were involved in book scanning as well. That makes sense. Thank you.
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