Shankland, Stephen 4 May 2009 | Nunberg, Geoffrey August 31, 2009 |
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Another one million are public domain works |
Clements, Maureen 30 April 2009.
30There are 129,864,880 of them | Google made instant e-book believers out of skeptics even though 10 years of e-book evangelism among librarians had barely made progress |
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MLibrary - University of Michigan | From the days of Sumerian clay tablets till now, humans have "published" at least 32 million books, 750 million articles and essays, 25 million songs, 500 million images, 500,000 movies, 3 million videos, TV shows and short films and 100 billion public Web pages |
Barbara Quint, , Information Today, August 27, 2007.
Of the seven million books Google has scanned, one million are in full preview mode as part of formal publisher agreements | Copyright infringement suits against Google and their settlement: |
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Perez, Juan Carlos October 28, 2008 | Le temps du retard est fini |
When Google announced in December 2004 that it would digitally scan the books of five major research libraries to make their contents searchable, the promise of a universal library was resurrected.
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