Pundits have described the Internet as the greatest boon to literacy since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the fifteenth century. Despite the Internet's multimedia versatility, ...

MELBOURNE – Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that it would begin digitally scanning all the books ...

In this morning's Financial Times, Thomas Rubin, Microsoft Associate General Council for Intellectual Property, suggests that authors won't benefit from Google's ambition to scan all the texts in the ...

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that it would begin digitally scanning all the books held by five ...

Technology has helped bring the notion of universal library closer to fruition, said Edward Wilson, a professor in Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University. Professor Edward Wilson of Cambridge ...

A library that contains all books ever written or ever to be written, all but lost within a nearly infinite number of works of meaningless gibberish. This was the concept that philosopher Jorge Luis ...

Google’s plans to digitise all the books of five major research libraries has run into problems, but if such a virtual library were to be implemented, knowledge would be accessible to everyone, ...