Google Google’s growing library

Google easily could have justified abandoning plans to put millions of library books online. After all, it faces two major lawsuits alleging copyright infringement. But rather than backing down, Google recently cut its biggest deal yet, a pact to scan 34 million books from the University of California’s library system. Leaders of the California system are convinced that making millions of books searchable online will foster innovation and spread knowledge. Their view is that by tearing down the ...