Google opens digital library to European book publishers

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Google opens digital library to European book publishers
By Michael Liedtke, The Associated Press
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2005-09-01-google-books-e
urope_x.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is asking European book publishers to submit
non-English material to its Internet-leading search engine - a move that
may ease worries about the company's digital library relying too heavily
on Anglo-American content.  Under an expansion announced Thursday, the
Mountain View-based company opened its ambitious Google Print
book-scanning project to publishers in France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
and Spain. ... 

Google said European publishers interested in having their books scanned
include: Grupo Planeta and Grupo Anaya, both of Spain; De Boeck and
Editions De L'Eclat, both of France; Netherlands' Springer Science &
Business Media; Italy's Giunti Editore; and Germany's Mare Buchverlag.


Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825