>Your business plan for the Google Books-alike is pretty much what Google did. They scanned in-copyright books as well as public domain ones and offered to beco

>Your business plan for the Google Books-alike is pretty much what Google did. They scanned in-copyright books as well as public domain ones and offered to become a storefront for them, if you recall (it didn't turn out so well, alas, I would far rather it had). The publishers might have responded differently if the creator wasn't Google. "Google" Books is an existential threat to them. Somebody "not google" books is less so.