<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Some references:</div><div><br></div>Harvard librarian Robert Darnton apparently initiated the backlash in 2009 with his New York Review of Books article "<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/feb/12/google-the-future-of-books/">Google & the Future of Books</a>". <div><br></div><div>Pamela Samuelson (Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley) also published an article in 2009 on Huffington Post, "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/google-books-is-not-a-lib_b_317518.html">Google Books is Not a Library</a>" (there are a series of articles on Huffington Post concerning the Google Books saga from Prof. Samuelson on the Huffington Post site).<br><div><div><br></div><div>Darnton wrote a summary of the struggle around Google Books in his 2011 article <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/apr/28/googles-loss-publics-gain/">Google’s Loss: The Public’s Gain</a>. The turn point for many was the issue of "fair use" being determined by a sole commercial entity, namely Google. </div><div><br></div><div>Darnton went on to foster the creation of the <a href="http://dp.la/">Digital Public Library of America</a>, launched April 18th of this year. So, for the moment, the American public is ahead.</div><div><br></div><div>I also found one book on the Google Books saga. I haven't read it, but the on-line reviews appear good.</div><div><br></div><div>"The Battle for the Books: Inside Google’s Gambit to Create the World’s Biggest Library", by Jeff John Roberts. It's vailable on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple. The Amazon price is currently $2.90.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Gary</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS"><b><i><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></i></b></font></span></div><font face="Futura" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><font><font color="#b22200">THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. </font></font></span></font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Futura"><span style="font-size: 10px; "><font><font color="#b22200">THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT TO BE COPIED, </font></font><font style="color: rgb(178, 34, 0); ">PRINTED OR REDISTRIBUTED </font></span></font><font style="font-size: 10px; font-family: Futura; color: rgb(178, 34, 0); ">WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR</font><font style="font-size: 10px; font-family: Futura; color: rgb(178, 34, 0); ">. </font></div>
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<br><div><div>On 2013.06.16, at 8:13 PM, Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Gary W Kenward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garykenward@eastlink.ca" target="_blank">garykenward@eastlink.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The only groups of people who have expressed a concern over Google's growing acquisition of information, as far as I know, are the various library associations around the world</blockquote>
</div><br><br>Source? I had thought libraries quite keen on the book scanning project. Any resistance has been from publishers and authors.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="">j</div><div class="gmail_extra">
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