<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4324e603-3a8a-4137-a066-e4219a45f6f9/3E9D7126-B744-43D2-848E-1ECBF530132B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/08/does-google-books-have-one-called-goliath-vs-goliaths.html" href="http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/08/does-google-books-have-one-called-goliath-vs-goliaths.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.siliconvalley.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/08/does-google-books-have-one-called-goliath-vs-goliaths.html"><H2>Does Google Books have one called “Goliath vs. Goliaths?”</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/08/does-google-books-have-one-called-goliath-vs-goliaths.html"><P>Here’s the prologue: Google scans books, builds online library. It’s not a new concept; other book-scanning projects exist. But Google’s proclaimed mission, after all, is to “organize the world’s information.” Having been quite successful at doing so online, it turned to print. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/08/does-google-books-have-one-called-goliath-vs-goliaths.html"><P>Now, seven years after Google officially launched its books project and just before a September deadline for submitting comments about the settlement, other characters both big and small have thrown what could be called major conflict into the story. The other Goliaths are the companies that compete with Google in other arenas: Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon. They’ve <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/technology/internet/21google.html">formed Open Book Alliance</A>, a coalition that also includes a couple of library associations, Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer Gary Reback and Internet Archive, a San Francisco nonprofit that has its own digital library.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E9D7126-B744-43D2-848E-1ECBF530132B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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