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Some Libraries Shun Google in Book Battle

Tue, 04/22/2008 - 17:13 — Bibliofuture

Story on "All Things Considered" on NPR: Technology has made it possible to make books accessible to anyone, anywhere. But in the effort to digitize the world's books, there's a fight brewing over who should control tomorrow's virtual libraries, and how open they should be. Some libraries are choosing to pay to digitize their collections rather than accept offers from Google and Microsoft to do it for free.

Story here.

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Tue, 04/22/2008 - 18:20 — Chris O. (not verified)

Link just points to this

Link just points to this post. Real link here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89850150

Tue, 04/22/2008 - 18:56 — Bibliofuture

I fixed link

The link is now fixed. Thanks for providing link in the interim.

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