Articles Tagged: library

In 2005, Google decided to launch a controversial campaign to digitize the world’s information and place it all in a digitally accessible and completely free, ad-sponsored database called Google Print.  Initially, although this seems a good idea, allowing readers and researchers around the world access to a host of material only previously held in dusty archives at Harvard university, the revolutionary way in which this project could shape the economics in academic and publishing sectors of the literary market has serious implications for all small academic presses, often highly dependent on library sales and copyright to make enough profit to stay afloat.