But Google is specifically digitizing the entire holdings of well stocked libraries, such as Harvard's. This activity directly argues against the thesis of the

But Google is specifically digitizing the entire holdings of well stocked libraries, such as Harvard's. This activity directly argues against the thesis of the article: if we assume for the moment that any and all rights issues are resolved, then Bezos is quite right that every book currently available anywhere in any form could indeed be downloadable in 60 seconds. Even books represented by a single extant copy could become widely available, potentially for the first time in centuries, in their "new" digital form. This is the exact opposite of any "recency" bias.