Sergey Brin Defends Google’s “Library to Last Forever”
A recent headline in The New York Times captured the dynamic of the Google Book Search controversy perfectly: “In E-Books, It’s an Army vs. Google.” The opposition that has coalesced against Google’s ambitious plan to digitize virtually every book ever published includes European governments, U.S. state governments, the U.S. Justice Department, Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as a broad, influential coalition of academics, librarians, authors, publishers and activists. While impressive, what the opponents lack is a real alternative to how all the knowledge locked up in pre-Internet print volumes is going to made accessible online in the 21st Century should Google’s effort fail. Google co-founder Sergey Brin spoke out this week in an op-ed in The Times that vigorously defends…
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