Google Book Search has added four Chinese publishers to its set of partners. From a short article in China Knowledge (today):
Google China signed agreements with four publishing houses, including China’s Tsinghua University Press and the Children's Publishing House of China, Xinhua reported Wednesday.
Vice President of Google China Kaifu Lee was quoted as saying that the books would be available online and Google would provide search links and free access to a segment of each work, but readers would have to pay to read the full contents.
Google also plans to take a 30% commission from the profit on online book sales.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/06/2006 11:06:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
