In Challenge to Google, Yahoo Will Scan Books - New York Times

In Challenge to Google, Yahoo Will Scan Books - New York Times: "In a departure from Google's approach, the Open Content Alliance will also make the books accessible to any search engine, including Google's. (Under Google's program, a digitized book would show up only through a Google search.) And by focusing at first on works that are in the public domain - such as thousands of volumes of early American fiction - the group is sidestepping the tricky question of copyright violation.
Last month, a group including the Authors Guild, which represents several thousand writers, filed a lawsuit against Google. The suit contends that the company's program, Google Print, is engaged in copyright infringement because although only text fragments are displayed, a book must be digitized in its entirety to make it searchable. "