Matthieu Demeestere

Google’s plans for a virtual library of millions of digital books has sparked competing efforts by Microsoft, Yahoo! and Amazon, whose less ambitious plans could avoid infuriating copyright holders who have attacked Google. <i>Google Print</i>, which scans books and makes their texts available online for keyword searches, was launched this month with what the California company called only "a small fraction" of the 15-million titles it eventually hopes to digitally copy.