Yeah, I’m not sure exactly how much negotiation would be involved, but given again that Google Books has paved the way for this (and also, they hired one of the Google Books people to run the project?) it might be easier the second time around, maybe relatively cheap way to buy goodwill?
(Other ways of buying goodwill on this particular topic might be to publish the full list of scanned book titles, link to whatever versions are still available for sale, make a statement that they’re supportive of books and authors etc)
Yeah, I’m not sure exactly how much negotiation would be involved, but given again that Google Books has paved the way for this (and also, they hired one of the Google Books people to run the project?) it might be easier the second time around, maybe relatively cheap way to buy goodwill?
(Other ways of buying goodwill on this particular topic might be to publish the full list of scanned book titles, link to whatever versions are still available for sale, make a statement that they’re supportive of books and authors etc)