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Perspective

May 6, 2009

Book Smarts

The settlement involving Google's plan to digitize books is seen by many as an ambitious change in the organization of written knowledge, writes Richard E. Posell.

By Richard E. Posell

In late 2004, in pursuit of its modest goal to "organize the world's knowledge" (and to monetize organized access to it) Google announced a program of digitizing books. The program evolved into two parallel projects: The Partner Program, with publishers covering in-print works, and the Library Project, covering out-of-print (but in-copyright) and public domain works. The latter program involved scanning and indexing the vast number of books owned by...

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