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I am a skeptic at heart in my world view things are seldom as they seem this outlook set me up as an ideal reader for the battle for the books inside googles gambit to create the worlds biggest library i read the piece initially because i enjoy jeff john roberts always engaging often quirky paid content articles. Published 26 january 2013 jeff john roberts the battle for the books inside googles gambit to create the worlds biggest library gigaom books san francisco california 2012 48 pages 299 isbn 978 1 938607 03 5. San francisco ca prweb november 20 2012 gigaom a global technology media company today released its newest ebook the battle for the books inside googles gambit to create the worlds biggest librarythe book follows the development of the google books project starting with its germination as a side project that google founders sergey brin and larry page took on while at stanford . Googles plan to digitize the worlds books into a combination research library and bookstore started in 2002 when it first began scanning books without permission from authors. For our newest ebook the battle for the books inside googles gambit to create the worlds biggest library gigaoms jeff john roberts describes the technological and legal twists and turns of the story through the people affected by it the authors who feared losing rights to their work publishers facing lost revenue technologists