The Book Will Never Die: Springer to Offer Book Content Back to the 1840s

Extensive research was necessary in the run-up to this monumental project to obtain the rights to digitize these books. Springer proactively contacts authors and copyright holders to clarify the issue of royalties for these digital editions.

Around 70 percent of the books in Springer Book Archives are in English, nearly 30 percent are in German with some Dutch-language titles. The ratio between scientific STM titles and professional literature is similar. These figures clearly reflect the company’s history over the years. The books in Springer’s book archives comprise a total of 17 different imprints, including German economics books by Gabler, the U.S. information technology publisher Apress and the U.S. non-fiction imprint Copernicus. Medical books account for the largest share of the book archives, at over 20 percent.