Google digitizing all books

Tue Mar 10 19:51:47 UTC 2009

I don't pretend to understand all the economic issues around Google 
Books and copyright, but I think it should be mentioned that there is 
already a non-profit organization working (much more slowly) to make 
digital versions of books freely available.  The last time I checked, 
their Russian collection was limited, but in the future 
<www.archive.org> may be a useful alternative to Google.  The same site 
has a very handy tool for looking at past versions of websites (the 
"Wayback Machine").

Erik McDonald
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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