September 8, 2006

U. of California Will Provide Up to 3,000 Books a Day for Google to Scan

By SCOTT CARLSON

A mere two months after the University of California begins its book-digitization project with Google, the university will provide the search company with as many as 3,000 books a day for scanning.

That nugget, and many others, can be found in a confidential contract under which California joined Harvard and Stanford Universities, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Oxford, as well as the New York Public Library, in the search-engine company's elaborate and

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