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Tuesday, June 18, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/17/technology/17LIBR.html Battle Over Access to Online Books DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK When Internet song-sharing services created digital jukeboxes of free music, book publishers raced to bolt the door to their own archives of copyrighted works. Many librarians, on the other hand, thought the idea was pretty exciting. Now, new technologies are igniting a similar battle closer to home. Librarians have seized on the potential of digital technology and offered users free online access to the contents of books from their homes, and they are squaring off with publishers who fear that free remote access costs them book sales....
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