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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
What isn't a rights issue? Once Google has the rights to use modern commercial titles, they won't have to scan them at all. They'll use the digital version from the publisher just like every other ebook store does.
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Google's lousy scans aren't a rights issue.
Whatever the reason is that they don't think they need to make the book, y'know,
readable, it's not rights. Their PD books are just as awful as, if not worse than, their non-PD books.
Also, given the number of publishers selling ebooks that seem to be made from bad scans of their
own books, I'm not holding out a lot of hope that any but the most recent books will be something other than scans, with or without the cooperation of the publishers. It's been claimed elsewhere in these forums that the publishers themselves don't have digital copies of any but their most recent (relatively speaking) books.