Earlier I posted my back-and-forth with the head of a publishing group over the legality of Google scanning books in Why Don't Book Publishers Object To Web Indexing?. Tim O'Reilly, who heads publishing group O'Reilly, dropped me a note about a similar back-and-forth he had earlier this month that's well worth a read. More on that below, as well as a new group objecting to Google's library digitization plans....

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