Google's Book Battle; Publishers sue over its plan to put entire libraries online.

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 31-OCT-05

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Byline: Brad Stone

On Nov. 1, if all goes according to plan, workers at the University of Michigan, Harvard and Stanford will begin piling all of their books, old and new, onto carts and delivering them into the maw of scanners furnished and financed by Silicon Valley's wunderkind, Google. Employees of the search giant will scan the books and make digital copies, which will then be made accessible and searchable to the 80 million Internet users who visit Google.com every month. To James Hilton, an associate provost at Michigan, the ability to browse books online is nothing short of world changing. "I have a hard time even imagining how important it's...

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