Comments on: Library community speaks out against Google settlement http://www.teleread.org/2009/06/18/library-community-speaks-out-against-google-settlement/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:25:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tassia http://www.teleread.org/2009/06/18/library-community-speaks-out-against-google-settlement/comment-page-1/#comment-1081200 Tassia Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:04:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=23729#comment-1081200 I very well understand their concern, but academic libraries have had orphan books in lock down* for years and Google is the ONLY organization that's stepped up to do this. Any other company / service wanting to deal with the orphan works issue? Or will they continue to be inaccessible to all but a few? (Obviously, I'm talking about books that are difficult to find, not the buck-a-pound ones.) ____ * I say 'lock down' because unless you can find the book in the used / antiquarian book market, and can pay the often staggering price, a book in an academic library is as good as non-existent to anyone outside academia. I very well understand their concern, but academic libraries have had orphan books in lock down* for years and Google is the ONLY organization that’s stepped up to do this.

Any other company / service wanting to deal with the orphan works issue? Or will they continue to be inaccessible to all but a few?

(Obviously, I’m talking about books that are difficult to find, not the buck-a-pound ones.)

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* I say ‘lock down’ because unless you can find the book in the used / antiquarian book market, and can pay the often staggering price, a book in an academic library is as good as non-existent to anyone outside academia.

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