I Google scanned books that are still under copywrite (I assume that exists for books) without paying the owners, why would anyone think they would be allowed to release that for free?
For older books, transcripts, maps etc should be fine but books you can still buy on Amazon, why would that be ok to release those books for free?
I like Google's idea but to think they would by force of will be able to circumvent that, thats a bit nasty to think a corporation would do that. I guess google, facebook, twitter have been doing that lately with no seeming hope of antitrust lawsuits but wow.
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