I Want To Be The Racecar
Google Inc. on Wednesday said the University of California has agreed to having books from its libraries’ collections digitized and made searchable within the company’s controversial library project.
The UC system’s 34 million books are is [sic] spread across more than 100 libraries on 10 campuses, making it the largest academic research library in the world. The full text of books in the public domain will be available through Google Book Search, while only snippets of copyrighted books will be viewable, along with information about where they can be bought or borrowed.
From an Information Week newsfeed, which was coincidentally selected from thousands of such feeds to be delivered to my desktop by Google. Spice, water, information, whatever. Not that this applies to any company or commodity mentioned here, but monopolies rock. Almost as much as Cal does.
OK…I concede…Go Bears!