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As you know, Google is on a controversial mission to scan the world’s  out-of-copyright books.  Die Presse reports that Google has just reached an agreement with the Austrian National Library to digitize 400,000 out-of-copyright books from the 16th to mid-19th centuries.  Google will pay € 30 million to scan the approximately 120 million page collection.

Google has so far digitized around 12 million books.

 

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Written by Richard on June 16th, 2010

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