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 ...

Staying with a musical theme (David Bowie, this time) e-books have been hitting high spots - as witnessed by several recent postings here, and also by one of the many postings from the SLA Conference in Denver: E-Books on Steroids. A resurgence of US interest in e-books was demonstrated by a packed room (“This has been the explosion year for ...

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. ...