Frank Pasquale posted Conditions for the Digital Library of Alexandria on his blog a few days ago - it is a considered response to Google (and other) major digitisation projects. His thesis is that, given that there are several of these major projects dividing up the world's libraries between them, and given that the terms tend to grant to the ...

A new social e-book - The Googlization of Everything by Siva Vaidhyanathan - has been announced. A social book is one in which society - you and I - take part in the writing; in this case it is being developed on a blog. It is the latest project of The Institute for the Future of the Book: This blog, the result of a collaboration between myself ...

The New York Times reported yesterday that Google plans to start charging users for full online access to the digital copies of some books in its database, according to people with knowledge of its plans. Publishers will set the prices for their own books and share the revenue with Google. Up until now, Google has only been able to allow full ...

if:book has just highlighted a new offering from Google - in the Official Google Reader Blog there is an announcement for Google Gears - a browser plug-in that allows off-line reading. By which it means it will - when prompted - download your latest 2,000 items so that you can read or re-read them offline... on a flight, if you will. Thus bringing ...

Boing Boing reports that the Google contract with libraries does not in any way grant them exclusive rights to scan that library's books. Google Book Search was at pains to reassure the industry and even made available a copy of one of their contracts. However, Boing Boing is now concerned that Google puts restrictive notices on their public ...

Yesterday Tim O'Reilly blogged at unusual length about the attack by Microsoft on Google at the Association of American Publishers (AAP). What he had to say is unsurprising to those who have been following the protracted debate on copyright and the right of Google to scan books from libraries. AAP is suing Google for scanning books from libraries. ...