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Google Defends Plan to Digitize Books
Published on 11 Sep, 2009 at 14:35 in Cloud | Viewed 118 times | No Comments
Google defended its book digitization program to Congress yesterday. David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer at Google, expressed Google’s plans as an open platform that will work to help independent bookstores and will work with publishers and device manufacturers.
In a statement Google said, “In this open platform, readers can find and purchase digital books from any bookstore and read them on any device,…
Google Opposed for Internet Library by Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo
Published on 21 Aug, 2009 at 14:32 in Cloud | Viewed 112 times | No Comments
Google, which acquired the rights to create an online library in 2008 as the outcome of a lawsuit against them for copyright infringement at the cost of $125 Million, is being taken on by the Open Book Alliance. Google aims to use the rights to create an online Book Rights Registry
Although it is not yet official, Microsoft and Yahoo have confirmed, and Amazon is also expected, to join the…
