Google’s Book Search programme, digitising the books from some of the world’s largest libraries, has gone very public in the last couple of days (eg. here, here and here).
Anyone can now download and print out entire books that are in the public domain. Before, they could only read the books online.
The Association of American Publishers (whose website currently seems to have collapsed, probably under the weight of enquiries to their site) continues to voice opposition to the whole programme but it is hard to argue with this strong defense in BoingBoing arguing that publishers should be thanking Google.
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