Bay Area free digital library at center of ongoing legal battle with publishers

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A potential landmark case that could impact the way we read books is unfolding in the Bay Area. The Internet Archive is a San Francisco-based nonprofit digital library that scans and lends out millions of digital books for free. ABC7 News I-Team Reporter Melanie Woodrow got a rare look inside the Richmond warehouse where physical copies of the books are housed and interviewed IA’s founder about his legal battle. Inside a Richmond warehouse, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle estimates there are one million books. The books are inside boxes that are inside shipping containers. “Libraries have…