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Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Internet company Google, has informed reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, US, that depending on permission from copyright holders the company may set up its own online book store.
Google is currently digitalising books to make them searchable at http://print.google.com, as part of its Google Print Library project, which involves five libraries. Publishers and authors have been extremely critical of the idea due to copyright issues.
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A three-month pause in the scanning of copyrighted books for the Google Print Library project was previously announced by Google in August last year, due to copyright issues.
According to the BBC, when asked if Google would consider expanding into e-books Schmidt stated: "Subject to permission from the copyright holder, yes. I want to be clear on that".
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