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Article: Building a European digital library: a challenge in the culture wars.(Google Inc. planning to convert world famous books into e-books format)
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Google's December 2004 announcement to expand its plans to digitize the world's books into scanning collections from five major world libraries in the U.S. and U.K. brought a strong reaction from Europe, primarily from France. Jean-Noel Jeanneney, president of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, wrote in Le Monde ("Google defies Europe," Jan. 22, 2005) of a risk of "crushing American domination" of the "idea of the world to be held by future generations." He also voiced his suspicion of the Google corporation's move toward "research-for-profit, cloaked in the appearance of disinterest." The tenor of his article was much-cited in the English-speaking American press. Less ...
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