[sebisebi]

The articles alludes to it at the end: the "corpus" of scanned books is incredibly valuable to a big data company like google and gives them a real edge against other companies.

[WalterBright]

If it is incredibly valuable, other companies can do it too, and sell access to the corpus to other companies.

[ot]

Wouldn't they also run into the licensing problem, even more so if they try to sell access?

[_rpd]

Seems a natural investment for Amazon.

[greglindahl]

Here's Amazon's "search inside" program, which started in 2001: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Search-Inside-the...