Google late last week temporarily halted a program to scan into its system copyrighted books from university libraries at Harvard, Michigan, and Stanford. Google will suspend the initiative until at
least November, to give publishers of books under copyright time to notify Google if they don't want those books scanned. The suspension came about as the result of talks with industry groups and
authors, said Adam Smith, program manager of the Google Print program. "From these discussions, we decided it was better to give them some time to communicate their desires," Smith told
OnlineMediaDaily. -- Wendy Davis
