Another puzzle

This is one of two books that I own from an outfit called 'Nabu', via Amazon, one of the few new books that I have bought by browsing on Amazon, rather than by browsing in a bookshop or in a periodical.

Unusual books in that they eschew any of the publisher, copyright and ISBN sort of information that occupy a page near the front of all regular English books or are split across a page near the front and a page near the back of regular French books (they having to be different to remind us that they used to be top country).

And I had thought that it had been a legal requirement for near a hundred years that any book included such stuff. At least any western book.

This western book is a photographic copy of an actual book held by Harvard Library, the other is a photographic copy of an actual book held by New York Public Library. The idea seems to be that these books - of which the Professor says there are hundreds of thousands - are all photographic copies of books which are out of copyright and so free to all. As far as I can make out the work of an outfit called BiblioLabs LLC, to be found at http://www.biblioboard.com/. Which is a bit more informative than the rather slimline (if pretty) Nabu website at http://www.nabupress.com/. Maybe a venture started up in competition to the Google digitisation of every book there has ever been in the world.

Nabu himself is the Assyrian and Babylonian god of wisdom and writing and, should you wish to worship, images can be found in the British Museum.