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Making Mama Happy

8 minutes ago, the AP released this juicy little tidbit:

Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers ? something rival Google Inc. hasn?t been able to achieve.

"That pleases publishers" - good luck. At any rate, the
Open Content Alliance is the name of this project, which Yahoo is building in conjunction with a number of other partners. Says the Yahoo spokesman (interestingly named Mandelbrot):

Much of the material will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors.

Which means the archive will be rather small. But
Pat Schroeder is happy, and we all know when Mama's happy, everybody's happy.
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