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• Arrêtez Google!: EU Reportedly Developing Joint Alternative To Book Project

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 555
  According to Reuters, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said the European Union intends to develop a plan to offer a public and pan-European alternative to Google’s book scanning project. The French, among others, filed formal objections and opposition to the Google Book Search settlement with the ...
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• ‘Googled: The End of the World As We Know It’: New book skewers search giant

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Googled: The end of the World As We Know It —that’s a new, not-so-flattering book about the search giant, complete with anti-Google comments by some media barons. Check out Nicholson Baker’s NYT review . I haven’t read Googled yet, but get the sense that Baker is much fairer than Googled ’s author, ...
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• Harvard’s Darnton is right to fret over the Google threat to libraries—but why no recognition of Project Gutenberg?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Historian Robert Darnton , the director of the Harvard University Library and author of The Case for Books , a valuable work in many ways, is right to worry about Google wreaking havoc on libraries. But here’s one mystery about The Case . While delving into the evolution of books, Prof. Darnton devotes not ...
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• Googles Earth

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in Sept. 2008
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• My e-book Thanksgiving list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...
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• Google collection: A start toward TeleRead?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Since the early 1990s, I’ve been pushing for a well-stocked national digital library system . The Obama White House so far has ignored the TeleRead idea as recently presented in the Huffington Post . But could we be getting there anyway? Via the Reading 2.0 list, here’s an except from Harvard Professor Robert ...
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• Google classics on an upgraded Kindle 2

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  I’ve started out Thanksgiving Day with a little sacrilege—by Amazon standards, anyway. The left image shows a page from Google ’s PDF of The Jungle ,  the Upton Sinclair novel exposing the Chicago meatpackers. My little experiment was for more than the sake of curiosity. Google has digitized zillions of ...
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• Google Korea to “Koreanize” its Home Page

  
  Waiguoren's Weblog — Authority: 129
  Posted on koreainformationsociety The Korea Times yesterday notes that Google Korea plans to “Koreanize” its home page!   The article notes that Naver has a 66 percent share of the search market and Daum is in second place with 20 percent.  Meanwhile, Google has only 2.2 percent of the Korean search market. ...
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• Should Google Books worry publishers?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Ron Miller at Fierce Content Management has obtained a review unit of Astak’s EZReader Pocket Pro (the same one I’ve been reviewing in recent weeks) and used it to examine Google’s e-book offerings . It is not clear from the article whether he downloaded the PDF or EPUB versions of the books he chose to read. ...
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• Google Book Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval; Hearing in 2010

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 583
  New York - The judge overseeing the settlement agreement between Google (NASD: GOOG) and authors andpublishers over the direction of its massive book-scanning project has pushed ahearing on a revised settlement back to Feb. 18, while at the same time grantedpreliminary approval to the new deal. "The preliminary ...
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• Maybe Google Should Give Up The Google Book Search Ghost

  
  Google Watch — Authority: 423
  Google Book Search is more than a massive undertaking to organize the worlds books online and make them available to users. Its become a epic struggle aficionados of Star Wars can appreciate. From a legal front, this quest stretches back five years, which for many of us who have watched not only Google but the rest ...
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• 3 Count: Who’s Next?

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 421
  Got any suggestions for the 3 Count. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent’s ISP to Court First off today, now that The Pirate Bay’s tracker has shut down, though in its case to force users to use decentralized methods of downloading, the movie studios have turned their ...
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• 3 Count: Sweeping Reform

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 421
  Got any suggestions for the 3 Count. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: Leaked UK government Plan to Create “Pirate Finder General” with Power to Appoint Militias, Create Laws First off today, Cory Doctorow is reporting on a leak he received from a previously reliable source within the UK ...
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• Revised Google Book Search Settlement from a Library Perspective

  
  Disruptive Library Technology Jester — Authority: 402
  Late, late in the day last Friday, the principle parties in the Google Book Search case submitted a revised settlement agreement agreement to the court. This post takes a look at the changes to the settlement from a library perspective. To keep this manageable, I’m not including discussion of library-oriented ...
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• Google backs away from public debate over Book Search settlement

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 563
  Now that Google has amended its proposed Book Search settlement and made numerous concessions to its critics, you’d think it might be more open to publicly discussing the settlement. According to the San Francisco Chronicle , however, the corporate giant pulled out of a chance to “publicly wrangle” with the ...
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• The New Google Book Settlement: First Impressions on Orphan Works

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  Late on Friday, a federal court in New York received a new version of the Google Book Search settlement. As with the old version, the new one was drafted jointly by Google and its erstwhile litigation opponents: the publishers and authors who sued Google for scanning their books without permission. Substantively, ...
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• Google backs out of NewsHour Google Books debate

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Per Michael Arrington at TechCrunch , Google backed out of a debate on Google Books that was supposed to air on Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour show yesterday. The stated reason was that the Open Content Alliance changed their representative at the last minute from a professor to a lawyer. Google did not want to put an ...
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• Google Books battles: Copyright, not Google, is the real villain, says Stanford fellow

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  “So far, Google has scanned 10 million books . Two million are old enough to be free of copyright, and another 2 million are still in print (Google has made separate agreements with the publishers of those books). The other 6 million are in copyright but out of print, many of them orphans. Thanks to the madness of ...
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• Google, Authors Submit Revised Book Settlement to Court

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 583
  New York - A revised settlement agreement was submitted on Friday, in theclosely-watched case of Google (NASD: GOOG) and the authors who sued the company over thedetails of its plans to scan the worlds books into a digital index. Therevised settlement addresses many key issues raised by the U.S. Justice ...
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• Open Book Alliance not Happy with Google’s Amended Book Settlement

  
  ModCool — Authority: 159
     No matter the outcome, there are those who will be unhappy with Google’s plans to digitize the universe of books and make them available online. Google, which is being sued over the venture, filed a revised agreement with the Federal Court in New York hearing the case. The revision contains what John ...
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