July 8, 2005

Presses Have Little to Fear From Google

By MICHAEL JENSEN

The hot session at the recent annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses had to be moved to a half-ballroom to accommodate interest. Nearly 200 publishers listened patiently as the first two speakers talked about various online opportunities for scholarly presses, but the crowd was mostly there to hear -- and interrogate -- the third presenter: the "Google guy."

Last December Google announced its Google Library Project, to digitize the books of five

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