The shot across the bowthat led to publishers’ enlightenment was Google’s December 2004 announcement of an agreement to digitize all the holdings of six major libraries. Flying the flag of “organizing the world’s knowledge,” as Google’s Director of Content Partnerships Jim Gerber expresses it, and merrily whistling past the graveyard of copyright, Google, and Amazon.com right after them, have shown publishers that their world has changed for ever. (The copyright tussle, as has been observed, is really a business issue, and business issues have a way of resolving in a practical fashion.)
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