Today’s Reading…

Library Journal has a nice summary of the DoJ’s filing here, which summarizes the myriad of objections and concerns addressed in the brief. Library Journal also posted an editorial in which they question the wisdom of giving Google exclusive control over the world’s books. From the editorial:

“It is clearly not in the best interest of libraries or the various publics they serve. We call on Judge Chin (and, as [Marybeth] Peters does, on Congress) to throw out the settlement—or at the very least modify and supervise its most pernicious sections—to ensure that the future of digital books, many scanned from libraries that purchased them at significant cost, not be put in the exclusive hands of Google.”

Pamela Samuelson, of UC Berkeley, one of the most influential and knowledgeable voices in this debate, also weighted in with a column in the Huffington Post.