Boing Boing: Amazon will distribute the US National Archive on DVD

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	View a recent day: August 20 \| August 19 \| August 18 \| previous days \| by month and year Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Amazon will distribute the US National Archive on DVD Archivist Rick Prelinger sez, The world's largest repository of public domain film and video has signed a distribution deal with Amazon's CustomFlix subsidiary to sell DVDs of its holdings. This isn't another Smithsonian-Showtime debacle. It's a nonexclusive deal, and the Archives gets copies of digitized materials and can make them available to its users. I've got a FOIA request in for the partnership agreement. Every generation needs to reinterpret history in the light of its own experience, and hopefully this deal will make it just a bit easier for people to get a look at the motherlode that until now has mostly sat on archival shelves. Link (Thanks, Rick!) posted by Cory Doctorow at 09:46:29 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments View a recent day: August 20, 2007 \| August 19, 2007 \| August 18, 2007 \| August 17, 2007 \| August 16, 2007 \| August 15, 2007 \| August 14, 2007 \| previous days \| all BB archives by month and year Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: