Information World Review reports Google used the London Book Fair (LBF) as a platform to reach out to a wary book trade, as it revealed plans to expand its controversial Library Project to include European libraries.
On the eve of the fair, Bloomsbury, which includes Whos’e Who publisher A&C Black , c.e.o. Nigel Newton called on the industry to boycott Google’s search engine “until it desists from its present misguided mission in the world of books”. He described Google as “a false prophet” engaged in “acts of ‘kleptomania'”.
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