What is it about these big corporations? (yes, a University Press is a corporation) They are always fighting any type of progress.
You'd think that the library people should want the knowledge accessable in any way they can... especially with Google's safegaurds against illegal copying.
I'd much rather see Google do this than a P2P factory in the third world that doesn't care about copyrights.
Get used to it.. progress is going to happen!
Google's Scan Plan Hits More Bumps - Forbes.com: "If Google scans copyrighted books into its library database, the digital copies might be misused and laws will be broken, says Peter Givler, executive director of the Association of American University Presses. He wrote, 'Google cannot legitimately claim to advance the public interest by increasing access to published information if, in the process of doing so, it jeopardizes the just rewards of authors and the economic health of nonprofit publishers.' "
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