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Google Print Holds The Presses

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-pressing-concerns dept.

brokenarmsgordon writes "Google Print, the project launched in December to digitize the entire collections of five major libraries, has been put on hold until November. Google will stop cataloging in-copyright books until November to give publishers time to decide if they would like to participate and to mark which books they want excluded from the index. "

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  1. copyright issues by w98 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I've always wondered about copyright issues with services like this. Questions were raised, I'm sure, when Amazon started doing their "look inside" service, although I'm pretty sure the text they've scanned is not searchable. Quite a difference from what Google is attempting.

    It will be interesting to see which titles will be available through it once Google Print is ready for prime-time use.

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