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utting French-language texts online. A specific page has offered an extensive selection of other digital libraries worldwide, with relevant links. 1994 > NAP used the web as a marketing tool NAP (National Academy Press) was the first publisher in 1994 to post the full text of some books, for free, with the authors' consent, and to use the web as a marketing tool to sell print versions. NAP was created by the National Academy of Sciences to publish its own reports and the ones of the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. In 1994, NAP was publishing 200 new books a year in science, engineering, and health. Oddly enough, there was no drop in sales--on the contrary, sales increased. In 1998, the new new NAP Reading Room offered 1,000 entire books, available online for free in various formats: "image" format, HTML format and PDF format. 1995 > The MIT Press followed the NAP In 1995, MIT Press was publishing 200 new books per year and 40 journals, in science and technology, architecture, social theory, economics, cognitive science, and computational science. MIT Press also decided to put a number of books online for free, as "a long-term commitment to the efficient and creative use of new technologies". Sales of print books with a free online version increased. These initiatives were praised by other publishers, but they were reluctant to launch a similar experience because of the cost of posting online thousands of pages, problems linked to copyright, and free versions "competing" with print sales. 1995 > The Internet Dictionary Project Tyler Chambers created the Human-Languages Page in May 1994. Tyler's other language-related project was the Internet Dictionary Project (IDP), launched in 1995. The IDP was a collaborative project to set up free online dictionaries for French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish. Tyler ran out of time to manage this project, and removed the ability to update the dictionaries in January 2007. People can still search the available dictionaries or download the archived files. 1995 > NetGlos, a collaborative glossary Launched in 1995 by the WorldWide Language Institute (WWLI), an institute providing language instruction via the web, NetGlos (which stands for: Multilingual Glossary of Internet Terminology) has been compiled as a voluntary, collaborative project by a number of translators and other language profe
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