Two articles from the press on this:
Google pays small change to open every book in the world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/02/google-books-scanning-libraries
The Google Book Search Settlement: ‘The Devil’s in the Details’
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=51429
The question surely is though where does the UK stand in all this? The
scenario is one where a US library patron will be able to walk into a
library, sit down at a computer, and view any book ever written (with the
publishers and authors receiving payment). Is the UK going to sit idly by
as the US steams ahead or are the UK national libraries going to make their
collections similarly available?
A quick plug for my pet campaign as well, we need more than ever for OCLC to
put Volume 4 of the DDC, the Relative Index, into the public domain, so that
people can browse the virtual bookshelves as well as virtually view the book.
Gareth Osler
Library Web, http://libraryweb.info
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