The impact of the settlement will likely deliver the ultimate death knell to the already struggling public library institutions, writes IPgrll in her blog. And in a separate but similar analysis further below, Wade Roush says it’s not just libraries that are losing, but readers in general. Read her entry in full for an analysis of the technical details of the settlement, and what it means for public libraries. Here just the conclusion: “So let’s recap. Google is going to digitize all books.

Source:Google/Publisher’s settlement may be a disaster for U.S. public libraries