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Brewster Kahle - How Google Threatens Books
May 19, 2009 - 11:37am — Blake
Brewster Kahle: If approved, the settlement would produce not one but two court-sanctioned monopolies. Google will have permission to bring under its sole control information that has been accessible through public institutions for centuries. In essence, Google will be privatizing our libraries.
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Ms. Sanford,
I wish you success with your book. But I don't feel that lisnews is the place to promote your book. Librarians tend to get buried under book ads, catalogs and the like during their working life anyway.
Second, AIG and Google are not monopolies in the colloquial sense or the legal sense. They are (or were) just the big dogs.