To digitize, or not digitize, that is the question

Should we put books on the web so everyone can have access?

Or is there no way of stopping it from happening anyway?  There's several efforts underway, led by the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online, according to a new BBC story.

Google and Microsoft are trying to get in on the act, but there's legal issues over copyright and opposition from publishers (no, really?).  What say you to this issue?

Comments

[Patrick]

Get it done. It'll happen anyway. Meanwhile, what about the facial recognition stuff happening over at riya? Check it out 9 Shifters. And no, this isn't spam comment - riya happens to be both amazingly disturbing and incredibly interesting. You can find a link at the Guardian Unlimited Technology blog.