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Google Books And The Librarian Backlash

Posted at 7:55AM Tuesday 15 Jan 2013

From the beginning, Google Books was an ambitious — and controversial — project. In this excerpt from our latest ebook, The Battle for the Books, we see how, by early 2009, the search giant's former allies began to turn against it.

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