• NY Times, Monday, November 21, 2005 11:03 AM

Google and book publishers have finally agreed on one thing, the New York Times says: information doesn't necessarily want to be free; rather, it wants to be found. What they cannot agree on is how it will be found and how it will be monetized. Publishers and Googlers squared off in a public debate Thursday over Google's plan to digitize the content--books copyright protected and out of copyrigh--of the New York Public Library and four university libraries. Publishers and authors are now suing Google over its plans and the case has landed in federal court. The public debate has an interesting back and forth between members of the Author's Guild and Google executives.

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