A great read from Barbara Quint. We first covered this story a few weeks ago but BQ adds much more.

As usual, Google appears to view any cost concerns as mere quibbling when it comes to bringing ever more content into its giant maw. If all it takes is resources, technology, effort, and money to bring content onto the web, well—no problem. Now the company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive (http://news.google.com/archivesearch). Most newspapers already have microfilm copies of their archives created and stored in the vaults of leading microfilm houses. But most microfilmed titles have not been digitized and probably never would be without such an initiative.

Source: Infotoday NewsBreaks

Note: In this post we list a couple of other newspaper digitization programs with free content.

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