NYTimes: Battle Over Access to Online Books [via Brewster]

“What we are really excited about is the potential of the technology to allow greater dissemination of information because getting information into the hands of everybody we can is what we are all about,” said Miriam Nisbet, legislative council for the American Library Association. “What we are concerned about is the dark side, which is trying to lock everything up.”

posted June 17, 2002 12:14 PM (Politics) #

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