I've heard that British library has a copy of ever book that's ever been published. How true is this?
2007-01-16 13:29:13 · 2 answers · asked by tomtom 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
British publishers were, for a very long time, required to send a copy of every book published to the British Library as well as some others including the Bodleian at Oxford. Whether the law still exists, I don't know but it was certainly in place forty years ago. The libraries were not required to pay for the books.
Publishers in other countries were not bound by British law and so were not required to send books to the library. Consequently the library does not have a copy of every book published.
2007-01-16 15:56:20 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have a lot of old books, but far from all. Maybe about 1% of all.
Good Luck!
2007-01-16 14:05:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋