Thread: Authors Guild and Google reach settlement: Millions of scanned books to be available.
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Old 10-28-2008, 11:39 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by DixieGal View Post
What a coincidence, as we were discussing this only yesterday. Well, I zoomed back to www.books.google.com but the 2 books I looked at yesterday are still not complete and have the blanked out pages.

I wonder when the full texts will be available?
I looked at the FAQ released on the Authors Guild site and saw this:
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14. How long will it take for these new services to become publicly available?

Before any of these services can be made publicly available, the settlement needs approval by the court before which the class action is pending. Once authorized, Google and the Book Rights Registry will be working to launch these services as soon as possible.
They also say that the agreement will only affect Google Books for U.S. users. Users from other countries will not get access to these features (yet, at least).
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