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Re: UC Academics Raise Major Concerns About Google Settlement

This is a very thoughtful and well-informed letter, and I urge you all to read
the entire letter, which can be accessed through the NY Times story here:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/uc-professors-seek-changes-to-google-books-deal/#comment-312403.
I think many in university press publishing would agree with much that this
letter recommends.

Sanford G. Thatcher
Executive Editor for Social Sciences and Humanities
Penn State University Press

>  >From Library Journal:
>
>Offering a crucial little-heard voice in the debate over the Google
>Book Search Settlement, 21 leading University of California faculty members
>have written a letter to the court asking for supplementary provisions to
>address their concerns. In the letter, the scholars speak on behalf of
>academic authors more interested in the public interest than in supporting
>themselves from their book revenues.
>
>http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6678948.html
>
>Bernie Sloan
>Sora Associates