Google Counters Critics of Library Project

The battle between publishers and Google over the Internet-search company's project to digitize library books has heated up with an announcement in February by Google that it was starting a campaign to dispel misperceptions about the project.

In an e-mail message posted online and addressed to "Google Book Search supporters," two Google officials said they were creating a "fact-checking brigade" about the company's digitization effort. And they proceeded to rip apart a column in

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