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> Google had a dominant position because it had the resources to scan all books. I thought Google had a dominant position because they signed an exclusive deal
by rjmunro 3y ago
> Google had a dominant position because it had the resources to scan all books.
I thought Google had a dominant position because they signed an exclusive deal with the authors guild that explicitly gave them a dominant position.
Anyone else could set up a project to go round libraries and scan books. Google has put more money into it than other organisations, but The Internet Archive has about 20 million scans (https://archive.org/details/texts https://archive.org/details/texts).