Google gets digital foothold in France
The Internet search giant on Monday began scanning the half a million books from the grand Municipal Library of Lyon. On a contract to scan them within ten years, Google’s effort to digitize the world’s books got a fresh motivation, despite fierce resistance to from the French authorities.
The Lyon library, whose books are municipal and not national property, announced the offer for the digitisation project in 2006. Mountain View California based Google was the only one to come up with a formal bid.
The French government on the other hand has also given mixed statements, vowing to protect France’s heritage from private interests on one hand, and also not ruling out a project deal with Google on the other!
On Monday, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President said the country’s government would spend 750 million euros to digitally scan “the content of our museums, our libraries and our cinematographic heritage via a public-private partnership.” However, Sarkozy did not mention who the private partner would be.
Meanwhile the European countries have started their own projects to rival Google in scanning books. The EU site Europeana and the BNF’s Gallica offer portals to view old works scanned online.
Google books hearing set for February 18
Google’s finally got some time!
The judge in the US has set February 18 as the date for hearing on the impending revised legal settlement between Google Inc. and US authors and publishers which would allow the Internet search giant to scan and sell millions of books online.
In a move welcomed by Google, the judge, Denny Chin, also granted preliminary approval to the agreement. However the opponents said it has no bearing on whether he will give a green light to the settlement then or not!
Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers reached the settlement last year to a copyright infringement suit they filed against the Mountain View, California, company in 2005.
Chin on Thursday also set January 28 as the date for the groups to lodge objections to the controversial and complicated class action settlement with his Southern District of New York court.
Google and the authors and publishers submitted a revised settlement to Chin last week which seeks to address the copyright and anti-trust concerns raised by the Justice Department and others to the original agreement.
Google to sell new e-books online
Google Inc. is planning to begin selling electronic versions of new books (e-books) online this year. This is being understood as a potential competition to the market leader Amazon.
According to Gabriel Stricker, A spokesperson from Google, “We’ve consistently maintained that we’re committed to helping our partners find more ways to make their books accessible and available for purchase. By end of this year, we hope to give publisher partners an additional way to sell their books by allowing users to purchase access to Partner Program books online.”
“We want to build and support a digital book ecosystem to allow our partner publishers to make their books available for purchase from any Web-enabled device,” he added in a statement on Monday.
This project undertaken by the Search engine giant is expected to be different from the Google’s controversial book-scanning program. The latest project from Google Inc will enable the book publishers to sell digital/electronic versions of their newest books directly to consumers through Google, placing the internet giant in a direct competition with Amazon.com. Amazon has been selling e-books for its electronic book reader, Kindle.
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