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Tuesday, July 24, 2001
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_30/b3742031.htm A Library to End All Libraries - Publishers are building an online system that will give readers more choices Record companies have fought digital distribution of music with every weapon at their disposal. They've won a series of tactical victories, but what do you gain if you win a war against your own customers? The record producers might want to take a page from stodgy old book publishers, who are quietly building a system to distribute digital text, which could help see to it that owners of that text get paid for its use. Along the way, publishers are developing a system for locating and retrieving material on the Web--especially the sort of copyright works now found mostly in libraries....
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