Will people make the extra effort to get the book they need from the library or via interlibrary loan if what they find online is only a snippet? Will the public be able to access these digitized full text copies that the U of M is provided with...
While the academic and library research value of the Google Print project is massive and Google should be commended, it's important to remember that Google's plan to digitize this massive amount of material is about selling books (in various...
In this day and age, will people be willing to wait to get the book(s) via interlibrary loan (if a local library doesn't have it) and more importantly, can libraries afford a large increase in the number of inter-library requests?
