No company, especially not an American one, was going to wrest control of French culture without a fight, and Nicolas Sarkozy pledged a billion dollars towards digitising documents, books and archives in order to back up his outrage. The money, of course, must still be found, but France at least is making it clear that it can see how digitalisation is going to change entirely both access to, and then control of, information, including literature. Australian responses do appear to be less gung-ho. This is what the National Library of Australia says about its slow and steady digitalisation of holdings in its vast collection: "Only a fraction of the books and serials collection is expected to ever be digitised. This is due to a number of factors including the large number of items in the collection, likely demand for the material, and copyright legislation." As at June this year, the NLA reported that it had digitalised a total of 2366 books and serials.
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