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Google Books Search Will Change but only in the USA

The announcement that Google struck an agreement with the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and a handful of authors and publishers has been greeted with guarded approval (Listen to Digital Campus: Episode 33 – Classroom Action Settlement. The ramifications have been posted at the Google site: The Future of Google Book Search. The problem however is that this agreement only pertains to the USA and not other countries.

HT: Peter Suber, Open Access News, “How Google Search will change.”

This entry was written by dchymes , posted on Monday November 03 2008at 03:11 am , filed under Research, Teaching, Theological Education . Bookmark the permalink . Post a comment below or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Responses to “Google Books Search Will Change but only in the USA”

Danny, on November 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 am Said:

Wow. I am excited to see more out of print books coming online. This is definitely a good thing for scholarship.
…read MORE and learn MORE…maybe…maybe not « Community of the Risen, on November 4th, 2008 at 4:38 am Said:

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