Instead of shying away from the digital book revolution, News Corp. publisher HarperCollins, for one, is embracing it. The company today is announcing it will make its books available to the search
services offered by companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.com, while maintaining possession of the digital files themselves. By owning its digital files, Google and company will have to come to
HarperCollins for access to its backlist of 20,000 titles. These titles will be hosted on HarperCollins' internal server, so that search engines will have to ping the server for page views instead of
copying and then hosting them on their own. This is a positive response to the move by big Internet firms to digitize book content that has many publishers worried that they will lose their
intellectual property rights. In response, publishers and authors have brought Internet search giant Google to court for copyright infringement.
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