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More than 10 million titles of books were published in the past. Every year 120,000 titles in English, 90,000 in German and many titles in a lot of other languages are added, but only a small share of this in a generic digital format. The production chain may be digital, the publisher, however, does not take care of the access to this information in later times. Today: There is a significant demand in reprinting old titles, but the publishers kept only sometimes the films and nearly never usable data. Future: There will be a huge demand in making old titles digitally available. Nowadays, the dream of having a total access and a digital backup for all knowledge and cultural heritage of mankind is a question of technology and costs. Digitisation of books becomes an important subject.