Presses Have Little to Fear From Google Michael Jensen Chronicle
of Higher Education, back page "Point of View," July 7, 2005
Author's copy; see free authoritative version on CHE site.
    The hot session at the recent annual meeting of the
Association of American University Presses had to be moved to a
half-ballroom to accommodate interest. Nearly 200 publishers
listened patiently as the first two speakers talked about
various online opportunities for scholarly presses, but the
crowd was mostly there to hear -- and interrogate -- the third
presenter: the "Google guy."     Last December Google announced
its Google Library Project, to digitize the books of five major
university libraries over the next decade -- millions of
volumes, starting with out-of-copyright material, but expected
to include out-of-print and other books still in copyright. The
project, an expansion of Google Print, a program to make
traditionally printed material searchable online, first caused
great alarm in many quarters. Soon after the