Summary
Google has been busy.
The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world's out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive. It could all be just a mouse click away from your computer screen if the effort, known as the Google Books Library Project, survives a legal challenge.See the full content of this document
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Library Ruling Could Change Publishing Indelibly
At stake is access to millions of texts, billions of pages, trillions of words that constitute nothing less than human memory and identity.
At stake, too, is who gets paid -- a decision that could affect the future of the publishing industry.Suppose you want to read, say, Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" in the original edition. Or the ...See the full content of this document
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