Pundits have described the Internet as the greatest boon to literacy since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the fifteenth century. Despite the Internet's multimedia versatility, ...

In this morning's Financial Times, Thomas Rubin, Microsoft Associate General Council for Intellectual Property, suggests that authors won't benefit from Google's ambition to scan all the texts in the ...

MELBOURNE – Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that it would begin digitally scanning all the books ...

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that it would begin digitally scanning all the books held by five ...

Since 2002, at first in secret and later with great fanfare, Google has been working to create a digital collection of all the world’s books, a library that it hopes will last forever and make ...

Technology has helped bring the notion of universal library closer to fruition, said Edward Wilson, a professor in Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University. Professor Edward Wilson of Cambridge ...

Academics have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that it would begin digitally scanning all the books held by five ...

Google’s plans to digitise all the books of five major research libraries has run into problems, but if such a virtual library were to be implemented, knowledge would be accessible to everyone, ...