Google to Digitize Books from “Big Ten” Libraries

June 10th, 2007

According to Imedinews, Google has cut a deal with a consortium of major mid-west universities to digitize 10 million books from their collections. These schools include the “Big Ten”  and the University of Chicago. Google’s deal will  virtually double the number of the books Google is digitizing for its Books Library Project. Although the universities will hardly pay anything, if at all, Google will be picking up the $60 million price tag. According to Publishers Weekly, the deal will create a shared digital repository for books within the public domain and provide only portions of books still protected by copyright laws.