Miguel Helft via New York Times; Google Book-Scanning Pact to Give Libraries Input on Price:
"The new agreement, which Google hopes other libraries will endorse, lets the University of Michigan object if it thinks the prices Google charges libraries for access to its digital collection are too high, a major concern of some librarians. Any pricing dispute would be resolved through arbitration.
Only the institutions that lend books to Google for scanning — now 21 libraries in the United States — would be allowed to object to pricing.
The new agreement also gives the university, and any library that signs a similar agreement, a discount on its subscription proportional to the number of books it contributes to Google’s mass digitization project. Since Michigan is lending a large number of books, it will receive Google’s service free for 25 years...
The new agreement does not address other criticism, including the complaints over orphan works and worries that the agreement does not protect the privacy of readers of Google’s digital library."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/technology/companies/21google.html?hpw
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