Digital book portal Fanshu.com is already the largest digital library in China with 500,00 scanned books and Founder plans to expand its coverage to 1.8 million books. It’s funny that Google ran into such fierce opposition when it was accused of scanning a mere 20,000 books earlier this summer but of course, unlike Fanshu.com, Google did its scanning without getting the proper authorization from Chinese writers or regulatory agencies. Although Google claims it had received proper authorization from US publishing agencies, this claim did not fly back in China.
Source: Digital East Asia
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