Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe
- ISBN-10
- 1459627474
- ISBN-13
- 9781459627475
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-08-22
- Publisher
- ReadHowYouWant.com
- Authors
- Ian Wilson, Jean Noel Jeanneney, Teresa Lavender Fagan
Description
The recent announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long - dreamed - of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infrin...
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