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Originally Posted by Sonist
My hope is that if the publishers are involved, we might get conversions from "source" files, instead of scans.
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It's not even a question. Google scanned material because it did not have cooperation of rights holders or former rights holders, and ergo, had only the print to work off of.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
If Google's existing offerings are any guide, probably not.
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Not giving Google the benefit of the doubt with commercial titles because they dared offer a fairly unique (for a corporation that is; hat tip to gutenburg) solution on older materials is quite unreasonable. On the contrary, Google has always gone above and beyond and there's no reason to expect any different as they move forward with a mainstream bookstore.
I for one, can't wait. I hope it's not cloud-only, just cloud enhanced, but time will tell.