There has been a tremendous growth recently in the available digitial content. In a digital library consist- ing of several hundreds of thousands of books, it is clearly infeasible for a user to examine complete book to determine whether or not the document would be useful. Instead, short meta data containing de- scriptions of books like titles, summary, keyphrases etc., could be benificial in helping a user in getting a quick summary about the key points in the book. We aim to perform automatic keyphrase extraction from books which can be used to get a quick overview of the key points contained. We focus on language in- dependent approaches which can be easily be applied to other languages (other than english).