Europeans Look To Start Alternative to Google Print

This is an interesting article in E-Commerce Times. For example, look at these quotes:

Google has committed to spend as much as US$150 million on the project, but will stand to benefit from being able to place advertising on the pages served up by the repository.

...France has been at the leading edge of document-digitization efforts and likely has more books of national important online than many of the countries working with Google.