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Great technology unite against Google Books
Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon plan to join the Open Book Alliance coalition, which opposes the agreement signed by Google and U.S. publishers and authors to scan books, saying it was a "threat to the competitiveness of the market."
Google Book Search, the book digitization project of Google, one of the most ambitious of the company, still in the thick of things despite the October 2008 agreement with publishers and copyright organizations U.S., after placing Google on the table the dollars needed to end the conflict.
This agreement is under review by a U.S. federal court and is also being investigated by the European Commission following a complaint from different personalities in German culture that accuse Google of violating intellectual property and "The Pirate Bay to be the cultural" .
On the other hand, the Open Content Alliance, a group claiming to seek "to build a comprehensive digital archive of books access" has been formed as an alliance against Google Book now and reportedly reinforced with mighty knights travel, but no less curious union of some of them to an organization as "open" and a laudable goal in theory.
The Google project (also on paper) is fantastic, by providing global Internet culture digitized at a distance of a single click. Free or low price you can buy or borrow digital books on the Web, some of whom are not even available in print.
It is true that a project of such magnitude entails legal implications, privacy monopolistic or relevant authorities should discuss and deal with, but it is also true that in that alliance against Books, mostly they want to slice out the project (which Google pays greater quantities by copyright) and other control prevent the course of a growing sector, especially after the advent of e-book readers like the Kindle.
We'll see how it ends the case. Meanwhile, Google is digitizing and improving the project.
