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June 15, 2009, 01:39 PM ET
Podcast: How Google Book Search Affects Academe
Depending on whom you ask, Google’s Book Search book-scanning project lays the foundation for a universal, digitized library or creates a dangerous monopoly on information. The Chronicle sat down with Adam Smith, director of product management at Google, to talk about Book Search, the proposed settlement in the authors-and-publishers lawsuit against it, what it means for academic authors and researchers and so-called orphan works, and fears of a Google monopoly. Listen to a podcast of the conversation. —Jennifer Howard
Each day on Wired Campus, The Chronicle's technology reporters highlight key IT developments and put them in perspective.
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