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Google and Partners Revise Terms of Digital Book Deal - NYTimes.comThe changes aim to win over wary governments and bring Google’s vast library closer to an introduction. We've neglected the Google Books settlement lately; this is the latest in the on-going saga of the virtual library of the future.
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The Electronic Book Burning By Alan Kaufman"The book is fast becoming the despised Jew of our culture. Der Jude is now Der Book. Hi-tech propogandists tell us that the book is a tree-murdering, space-devouring, inferior form of technology; that society would simply be better-off altogether if we euthanized it even as we begin to carry ...
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Google Book-Scanning Pact to Give Libraries a Say in Price - NYTimes.comThe agreement would give some libraries a degree of oversight over the prices that Google could charge for its vast digital library. There's also a discount for offering books to scan, so U.Mich will get 25 years free access. Obviously Google is in this for the long term. But just think--who ...
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