[Chapter-delegates] WIFI in Repote Areas

[Gary W Kenward]

Some references:

Harvard librarian Robert Darnton apparently initiated the backlash in 2009 with his New York Review of Books article "Google & the Future of Books". 

Pamela Samuelson (Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley) also published an article in 2009 on Huffington Post, "Google Books is Not a Library" (there are a series of articles on Huffington Post concerning the Google Books saga from Prof. Samuelson on the Huffington Post site).

Darnton wrote a summary of the struggle around Google Books in his 2011 article Google’s Loss: The Public’s Gain. The turn point for many was the issue of "fair use" being determined by a sole commercial entity, namely Google. 

Darnton went on to foster the creation of the Digital Public Library of America, launched April 18th of this year. So, for the moment, the American public is ahead.

I also found one book on the Google Books saga. I haven't read it, but the on-line reviews appear good.

"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.

Cheers,
Gary


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On 2013.06.16, at 8:13 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Gary W Kenward <garykenward at eastlink.ca> wrote:
> 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
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> Source? I had thought libraries quite keen on the book scanning project. Any resistance has been from publishers and authors.
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