Word: accessibility
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...Last year, they came to a settlement, which is now awaiting approval from a New York district court. Presently, Google Books gives readers full access to books that are out of copyright - therefore, in the public domain - but shows only extracts of books that are still in copyright, alongside information on bookstores and libraries where you can find them. Should the court approve the agreement, Google will be able to offer users the option to purchase full digital access to books that are still in copyright but are out of print - turning itself, in effect, into a huge bookstore...
...While critics worry that the settlement would legalize a digital "land grab" of historic proportions, Google insists that it simply wants to "help readers get access to more books in more ways," a Google spokesman says. "Our goal remains bringing millions of the world's difficult-to-find, out-of-print books back to life." Read: "Librarians Fighting Google's Book Deal...
...groups and governments from Italy, Spain and France have been expressing similar fears. According to the International Herald Tribune, a spokesman for the French Ministry of Culture repeated France's long-held stance that Google's book project was a risk to cultural diversity, speculating that Google might withhold access to what is essentially "cultural data" best stored locally or nationally...
...technology without following the familiar high-carbon path to growth. Only with outside funding will India be able to effectively shift to renewable sources of energy, which, being costlier, will have to be subsidized for widespread use by people like Kumar and the over 400 million Indians still without access to electricity...
...computer program. Year-long subscriptions to the program, which had been available free of charge exclusively to students for the past two years, will now be available to both students and staff for $110, 20 percent of the $539 market price. According to Associate Dean Robert G. Doyle, free access to Rosetta Stone had not previously been available to staff because funding only covered students. The LRC had been willing to pay full price for the second year of subscription for student access, but because of the 15 percent FAS-wide budget cut, the service had to be terminated...