The Power of Google

The Wired Campus reports on Google’s announcement that it will allow authors and publishers to use Google Books as a distribution channel for books that they license through Creative Commons. Google sez:

We’ve marked books that rightsholders have made available under a CC license with a matching logo on the book’s left hand navigation bar. People can download these books in their entirety and pass them along: to friends, classmates, teachers, and so on. And if the rightsholder has chosen to allow people to modify their work, readers can even create a mashup–say, translating the book into Esperanto, donning a black beret, and performing the whole thing to music on YouTube.


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