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InternetNews October 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Yahoo Leads Literary Charge The Internet giant heads a consortium set on digitizing hundreds of thousands of books and technical papers and making them available on the Web for almost universal access. The consortium will use an opt-in policy for publishers that has plagued Google's similar effort.
Information Today October 3, 2005 Barbara Quint	Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print Google Print's ambitious effort to digitize the world's book literature has inspired others to initiate their own effort.
InternetNews October 27, 2005	Open Content Alliance: The World's Books For All International group of research libraries bands together to provide open online access to the world's books.
Information Today October 31, 2005 Barbara Quint	Open Content Alliance Expands Rapidly; Reveals Operational Details Just a few weeks after its launch, the Open Content Alliance has already added dozens of new members to its Open Library project.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Google Gets Burned Big questions remain unanswered about digital media's future. Google's battles to get its hands on copyrighted content may ultimately carry a hefty financial price for its shareholders.
InternetNews October 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	MSN Jumps on Book Search Wagon MSN hopped into the literary fray on Tuesday, announcing its intention to launch MSN Book Search in 2006.
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg	The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price	Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.
Information Today June 5, 2008 Barbara Quint	Microsoft Shuts Down Two of Its Google `Wannabe's': Live Search Books and Live Search Academic The reason for the cancellation was money or the lack of it. Microsoft could not foresee a sustainable business model for the service.
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books.
Information Today December 2006 Greg R. Notess	Microsoft Launches Live Search Books Microsoft has launched Live Search Books. All of the books available on Live Search Books are out-of-copyright titles, thus avoiding the copyright controversy at Google Books.
Information Today October 31, 2005 Barbara Quint	Microsoft Launches Book Digitization Project--MSN Book Search In its announcement of MSN Book Search, Microsoft emphasized its investment in book digitization as a way to offer higher quality answers to Web searchers.
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid	Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project.
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2005 Tom Taulli	Yahoo! Takes the High Road Google has, so far, been the big winner in Internet search, and it has served the company's ad revenue well. It stands to reason that indexing media content will meaningfully supplement its already veritable search empire. But if the company is going to make it happen, Google needs to think more like, well, Yahoo!.
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Michael J. Miller	Our Best Products of the Year Major improvements to most electronics, but not in the area of security... Google's Print Library Project... Web applications are the hottest trend in software...
Information Today November 21, 2005 Barbara Quint	Books Online: The Free Versus Free Battle Begins Now that all the book digitizers have done enough to create what anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize" their investments.
Wired December 2003 Gary Wolf	The Great Library of Amazonia 120,000 fully searchable texts and counting. Jeff Bezos is building the world's biggest digital book archive. It's an info-age dream come true -- and the best way to sell books ever.
InternetNews October 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Print Hits The Fan The Association of American Publishers said it's suing Google over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners.
Information Today January 2006 Richard Poynder	To Have and to Hold - Viewpoint: Association of American Publishers The Association of American Publishers has taken a stand on Google Book Search, previously called the Google Print Library Project. Here is its viewpoint.
Information Today July 7, 2008 Paula J. Hane	Come to the World eBook Fair! This year, the theme of the fair is Own Your Own Library and it promises 1 million-plus books free for the taking.
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse	Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Tom Taulli	Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note.
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint	Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive.
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project.
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore	Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Jim Wagner	Google Suspends Copyright Copies The search engine giant makes concessions to copyright owners but some publishers still have concerns about Google's book projects.
Search Engine Watch May 18, 2006 Chris Sherman	Building the Universal Library What will it take for Google or another search engine to truly assemble a library of all of the world's information? Here is a fascinating look at the challenges.
Information Today March 7, 2011 Barbara Quint	New Lending Model for Ebooks in Libraries from Internet Archive's OpenLibrary The swirling, chaotic ebook revolution continues to generate controversies, particularly in the library arena.
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature?
The Motley Fool May 26, 2005 Rich Duprey	Google Searches the Classics Search engine's ambitious plans to digitize the works of three libraries raises copyright worries.
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet.
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson	The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever.
Information Today April 16, 2007	Stanford Launches Copyright Renewal Database The database is designed to be a tool for anyone researching the copyright status of books.
Information Today October 6, 2008 Jill E. Grogg	Print on Demand Goes Local Localized print on demand (POD) is ushering in the next era of book publishing and distribution. It could create a dramatically new paradigm for libraries.
Searcher January 2006 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Home Guard Information professionals need to establish turf for the profession, to make it clear to patrons or potential patrons everywhere exactly what we do and why they cannot do without our services except at great personal risk.
Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint	Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries?
InternetNews August 31, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Extends Book Scanning Operation In the face of increasing protests from publishers, Google affirms its intention to go back to scanning books under copyright.
Information Today November 2, 2009 Nancy Herther	Internet Archive Dishes up BookServer as Digital Books Market Heats Up BookServer is intended to be easy-to-use, while respecting authors' and publishers' interests
Information Today August 27, 2009 Paula J. Hane	Anti Google Book Settlement Organizations Band Together in Open Book Alliance The countdown to the Oct. 7 court hearing on the Google Book settlement is on.
Information Today June 5, 2008 Barbara Quint	`It Ain't Over Till It's Over': Impact of the Microsoft Shutdown Although the announcement of Microsoft's decision to shut down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects seemed to indicate that the program would cease digitizing immediately, conversations with participating libraries indicated otherwise.
Information Today February 13, 2006 Miriam A. Drake	University of Michigan President Distresses Scholarly Publishers Mary Sue Coleman delivered an address that concerned the Google Book Library Project at the University of Michigan and issues related to copyright, preservation, and providing public access to knowledge.
Searcher February 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world?
Information Today October 7, 2014 Nancy K. Herther	European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations.
Searcher July 2005 Laura Gordon-Murnane	Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever.
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses.
Information Today February 7, 2008	Columbia University Collaborates With Microsoft on Digitization Project Columbia University and Microsoft are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and to make them available to internet users.
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom	The Web Hits the Stacks The bulk of human knowledge represented by printed material -- especially that more than 25 years old -- does not exist in digital form. But Yahoo! and Google are are leading the way in efforts to open the world of print and proprietary material to browsing.
Searcher May 2008 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy.
InternetNews August 21, 2009	Heavy Hitters Taking Swings at Google Book Search Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon joining new coalition aiming to block Google's settlement agreement with authors and publishers.