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L'ogre anglophone

From BiblioAcid on the finding in our Aggregate collections article that about 50% of unique titles in the aggregate Google 5 collections were in non-English languages.

Bref, l'�crasement de la francophonie par l'ogre anglophone Google semble largement fantasm�. [BiblioAcid]

Of course, our figures refer to the collections themselves, not to the choices Google and the libraries make about digitization.

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Posted by Nicolas Morin on September 22, 2005

That's correct, the figures refer to the collections and not the choices Google and the libraries may make.
But still: the Biblioth�que Nationale de France's President's assumption that Google Print will *inevitably* be all-english because it works with english-speaking libraries is proved groundless.

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