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[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 09 January 2009, Neil Morrison wrote:
>See this link for a full rundown:
>
>http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/
>
>The Future of Google Book Search
>Our groundbreaking agreement with authors and publishers.
>
>
>Three years ago, the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers
> and a handful of authors and publishers filed a class action lawsuit
> against Google Book Search.
>
>Today we're delighted to announce that we've settled that lawsuit and will
> be working closely with these industry partners to bring even more of the
> world's books online. Together we'll accomplish far more than any of us
> could have individually, to the enduring benefit of authors, publishers,
> researchers and readers alike.
>
>It will take some time for this agreement to be approved and finalized by
> the Court.
>
>Right now, you can search over the full text of some seven million books
> through Google Book Search.
>
>The Library Project
>We've partnered with renowned libraries around the world to include their
> collections in Book Search. For Library Project books that are still in
> copyright, our results are like a card catalog; we show you info about the
> book and, generally, a few snippets of text showing your search term in
> context.
>
>For Library Project books that are out of copyright, however, you can read
> and download the entire book.
>
>This agreement will allow us to make many of these out-of-print books
> available for preview, reading and purchase in the U.S.. Helping to ensure
> the ongoing accessibility of out-of-print books is one of the primary
> reasons we began this project in the first place, and we couldn't be
> happier that we and our author, library and publishing partners will now be
> able to protect mankind's cultural history in this manner.
>
>Three types of books
>This agreement helps define how our users may access different categories of
> books on Google Book Search.
>
>  1.. In-copyright and in-print books
>  In-print books are books that publishers are still actively selling, the
> ones you see at most bookstores. This agreement expands the online
> marketplace for in-print books by letting authors and publishers turn on
> the "preview" and "purchase" models that make their titles more easily
> available through Book Search.
>
>  2.. In-copyright but out-of-print books
>  Out-of-print books aren’t actively being published or sold, so the only
> way to procure one is to track it down in a library or used bookstore. When
> this agreement is approved, every out-of-print book that we digitize will
> become available online for preview and purchase, unless its author or
> publisher chooses to "turn off" that title. We believe it will be a
> tremendous boon to the publishing industry to enable authors and publishers
> to earn money from volumes they might have thought were gone forever from
> the marketplace.
>
>  3.. Out-of-copyright books
>  This agreement doesn't affect how we display out-of-copyright books; we
> will continue to allow Book Search users to read, download and print these
> titles, just as we do today.

This needs to be accepted by the courts asap.  If not yesterday.


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