Brantley blog post

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

Peter Brantley has a long post on his "Shimenawa" blog (he has 
more than one).  It can be found here:

http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/01/02/trade_for_our_own_account

The post is hard to summarize, as it ranges across a number of 
challenging policy issues, but the gist of it is that the current 
mass digitization projects in many libraries are not moving 
forward in the libraries' own interests, but, rather, in the 
interests of the parties (largely commercial and principally 
Google) who step up to the initial costs.  There is also 
speculation here about the much-whispered-about possibility that 
"Google will sell out the libraries" (my phrase, not Peter's) in 
cutting a deal with the publishers and authors with whom they are 
now in litigation.

Joe Esposito