Google's Moon Shot

Google intends to scan every book ever published, and to make the full texts searchable, in the same way that Web sites can be searched on the company's engine at google.com. At the books site, which is up and running in a beta (or testing) version, at books.google.com, you can enter a word or phrase--say, Ahab and whale--and the search returns a list of works in which the terms appear, in this case nearly eight hundred titles, including numerous editions ... Full Story »

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Dale Penn
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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

Law is an organic thing and this article offers a hopeful treatise on digitized libraries. In a free market the cost of things such as licenses are set between a willing buyer and a willing seller. So what if Google is currently the big boy on the street - who's to say Microsoft or other major players won't join the market once it is created - and whose to say publishers won't go after smaller licensees once the ball gets rolling?

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