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Google goes digital in France

BIT BY BITAbout half a million books from the Municipal Library of Lyon are expected to be digitized with the next 10 years, a first step in preserving France’s heritage

AFP , PARIS

Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand met earlier this month with Google vice president David Drummond and expressed his “concern” about the company’s worldwide book-scanning activities.

“Every day we have news from Google saying ‘we have made a deal with such-and-such a record company, or with so-and-so. But we have to be very careful,’” he told France 2 TV last week.

“The content must not fall into private hands,” he said.

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