Hachette and Google come an agreement to publish around Google Books: it addresses "the digitization of 40,000 to 50,000 print books of general literature, academics and Documentary Editions Grasset, Fayard, Calmann Levy, Armand Colin, Dunod and Cambridge."
The terms of the agreement are likely similar to those reached with the U.S. academic libraries:
- Hachette receives a copy of the scans and plain text of digitized books in the clear (if it did not otherwise. ..)
- Advertising revenues (from the Google Books website) and editorials in If paper reprint or resale as ebooks from the scans. How
- it is against the advice of the profession: the National Union of Publishing Hachette which is opposed to this service giant's Mountain View. This union is associated with trial editions of La Martiniere Google cons. The editors continue to maintain a fierce fear of Google: it has those of the press to its knees through Google News . Those of the book that are sometimes the same will not suffer the same fate ....
- it also marks a certain dehiscence (selfish ?) By Hachette vision of national (ist) of the same service maintained by our government even if it allocates that funding (ridiculous?) To digitize 100,000 (400,000 futures ...) works
- is a drop in the ocean of 15 million titles already digitized according to a quote on a discreet official Google site. The major project ahead: there was talk at Google only 10 million there is even less 15 months
And progress is clearly there: with 15 million books, it now exceeds 10% of total world heritage estimated 130 million books by Google itself.
What do I think as an individual is always the same: completeness of Google Books is good for me and mine : I'm positive!
Source: Media Blog and Tech (by Didier Durand)
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