What might Google’s massive book scanning efforts mean for your library? This week LJ editors were invited to Google’s New York office to discuss the company’s project—both its publisher partner program and, of course, its groundbreaking Google Book Search class action settlement with publishers.
The wide-ranging interview with Dan Clancy, engineering director in charge of Google Book Search, and Tom Turvey, Google director of content partnerships, will run in the May 1 issue of Library Journal, but we wanted to provide some excerpts from the discussion, which ranged over pricing issues and access for libraries and consumers, the legal settlement’s impact on orphan works and the public domain, and how the program would actually translate from paper to practice once—or perhaps if—approved.
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