According to today’s The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Association of American Publishers has asked Google “to stop scanning copyrighted books published by the association’s members for at least six months….” This is to give the AAP time to look into potential copyright infringement. Google acknowledges it received the request from the AAP, but haven’t responded to it. Susan Wojcicki, director of product management for Google Print, is quoted in the article as saying she believes the library book digitization project is “fully consistent with fair use.”

The AAP has also created a Web site called Authors @ Your Library to link publishers and librarians in scheduling authors for library events. It’s not really live yet, although there is some searchable data. If you’ll be at ALA in Chicago (25-28 June 2005), more information will be at the FOLUSA (Friends of Libraries USA) booth, #4227.