Google Books: Google Book Search and its Critics

The recent work of Google in text indexing and in large scale scanning is of such magnitude and of such far reaching influence in all parts of education, that serious efforts to contextualize this commercial enterprise in academic terms must be done. Dr. Batke's "GOOGLE BOOKS: Google Book Search and its Critics" would like to start the discussion by reviewing some influential essays on the subject and attempting to remove some obvious misconceptions that inhibit the discussion.