Google Returns to Librarians

Surprise!
The latest isue of the Google Librarian Newsletter arrived in my in slot this morning (April 21) dated April 6, 2009 (I guess that’s how long it takes to get through marketing and legal approvals!). With all of the amcius briefs. etc. going to the U.S. courts from our library associations, challenging the fairness of the AAP-Author’s Guild-Google agreement over copyrights and the digital books in Google Book Search, I guess they decided they needed to talk to us again. Then again, maybe I am too cynical. If they’re really worried perhaps they’ll start using Google Librarian Central again.
Google Librarian Newsletter
In This Issue:
Letter from the Editor
Features:
Google Book Search Settlement
Google Book Search comes to mobile
New content on Google
Best of the Inside Google Book Search Blog – the last 6 months:
“But where to start?”
“Book search everywhere with new partnerships and tools”
“A first for France: the city of Lyon and Google partner up to digitize books”
Product Announcements:
Knol
You will note that they are creating a license for libraries to use out of copyright works for free. How nice of them! Didn’t everyone already have that right for public domain stuff?
I have to admit that there is marvelous stuff here. Are we paying too high a price?
Stephen