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German Publishers Launch Google Books Rival

Service won't show text snippets, which Germans think violate copyright

By Colleen Barry, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 14, 2007 11:26 PM CDT

(Newser) – German publishers irked by Google Book Search's indexing of their books without paying a fee have launched a competing version of the same service. So far, reports Ars Technica, about 300 publishers have made about 8,000 German books available to searchers on Libreka.de,... Read full story »

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