Multicultural Multimedia

I thought this article was rather interesting. Berlin is hosting its annual book fair, at which many authors from various nationalities will be present. The hot topic is electronic publishing (of course) and interestingly enough, Google's recent woes with scanning pages from books and making them searchable. According to the article, a new system (one can only assume from its placement next to the Google bit that it is a Google-based project) is being implemented to show the copyright information of books with scanned pages. A Digital Market Place is also being showcased for software producers. The boldest part of the article is Stephan Fuessel assertion : "The book is increasingly becoming obsolete in this sector."

I think Gutenberg just turned over in his grave. Again.

Many faces of India in focus at world's biggest book fair [from the Khaleej Times Online]