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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Actually, I believe that the Google books project, which is still ongoing, has scanned in some 12 millions books in partnership with around 30 libraries around the world. While those books aren't available as ebooks per se, they do now exist in digital format.
It always seemed to me that a reasonable compromise for google books was that in return for being able to use the search indexes that they generate from the digitized books, that google should make the digitized book available to the rights holder as the basis for generating an ebook.
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That's seems like an entirely reasonable suggestion to me, which is not to say that there may not be some legal objection to it that's no evident to us mere mortals
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