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Just in case you didn’t have the change to read Sergey Brin’s op-ed piece in the NYT, supporting the Google Book settlement, here’s a link.  The best part of the piece though, is the ever growing collection of comments.  Those are priceless, “Mr. Google.”

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Lots of news and blog sites are reporting on the Dept. of Justice response to the Google Book Settlement.
Teleread has a simple summary, referring folks to the 32 page DOJ official response, Resource Shelf summarizes a variety of news sources, and for a simple overview, see the DOJ Press Release.   The DOJ suggests the parties […]

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Is now available, click here for the full policy.

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Sat in on the EDUCAUSE webinar on the Google Book scanning project.  The speakers were
Jonathan Band
Counsel, Library Copyright Alliance
Dan Clancy
Engineering Director, Google Book Search

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First Google, now Amazon, UM has certainly got connections.  They announced this week a plan to offer book reprints for sale on Amazon as reprints on demand.  According to their press release,”The University of Michigan will make thousands of books that are no longer in copyright — including rare and one-of-a-kind titles — available as reprints […]

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From teleread.org
By Paul Biba
Several new features were announced today on Google’s Inside Book Search:
Embeds and links - This new toolbar option allows you to embed a preview of a full view or partner book in any of your websites or blogs–all with a simple html snippet. …

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 NFAIS and Drexel’s iSchool are co-sponsoring a workshop on June 26th in Philly titled “Google, the Web and the Future Roles of Publishers and Librarians.” Â
More info can be found on the NFAIS site.  I’m certain eBooks will come up somewhere in this program.

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Posting on behalf of Peter Murray, OhioLINK, full post at:  http://dltj.org/article/gbs-summary/
Today was to be the deadline for objecting to, opting out of, and/or filing briefs with the court on the Google Book Search Settlement. That was the plan, at least, when the preliminary approval statement from the court was issued last year. That deadline changed, […]

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