Google’s effort to digitize the world’s books is facing more competition from abroad. At the Frankfurt book fair last week a group of German publishers unveiled Libreka, a rival to Google Book Search. Unlike the Google project, German publishers must give the go-ahead before snippets of text are made publicly available via Libreka’s Web site.
French authorities have also announced plans to digitize millions of European literary works. And last year The European Commission announced plans to make at least six million cultural works available online by 2010.—-Andrea L. Foster
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