The University of California is joining Google’s book scanning project, and Google will scan several million of UC’s titles. The project is somewhat controversial, but we’re thinking if author’s and publisher’s groups were half as powerful as the RIAA or MPAA, there would be a bigger debate going on. You might remember that really indepth story in the New York Times Magazine a while back, which lays out the debate nicely.
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