Google And Hachette In Landmark Deal

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Google And Hachette In Landmark Deal
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Google and Hachette Livre have struck a groundbreaking deal allowing the world's second largest retail book publisher to control the scanning and electronic sale of its out-of-print French language titles
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/30429
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/google-strikes-deal-to-scan-french-books-2137307.html
'...The companies said the deal would benefit authors and readers, and booksellers would profit from print-on-demand sales. Hachette will share copies of the scanned books with France's National Library and other public bodies....Its book-scanning operations have met strong legal challenges in the United States and a number of French publishers have sued or threatened to sue Google ... ... had clashed with Google before over its book scanning but sought a deal so it could get access to the Californian giant's scanning expertise.
He said Hachette would control the pricing ...'



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'...and whether these should be available for sale or for search. This gives it more direct control in Google’s book digitisation project than English-language publishers would have under a proposed US settlement, which is still awaiting Department of Justice approval...'
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Google was convicted of copyright infringement by a French court in December 2009 for digitising out-of-print titles from the publisher La Martinière without its consent....'
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Arnaud Nourry, chief executive of Hachette, said the deal offered a “fresh start based on fairness, even-handedness and the acknowledgement of our rights and those of our authors”....'







Joseph Harris is Smile Poet
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