The Mother of All Libraries

From BusinessWeek, Stephen Wildstrom writes…
\”Record companies have fought digital distribution of music with every weapon at their disposal. They\’ve won a series of tactical victories, but what do you gain if you win a war against your own customers? The record producers might want to take a page from stodgy old book publishers, who are quietly building a system to distribute digital text, which could help see to it that owners of that text get paid for its use. Along the way, publishers are developing a system for locating and retrieving material on the Web–especially the sort of copyright works now found mostly in libraries.\” [more…]