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Google Calls a Halt to its Newspaper Scanning Project

by David Coleman

“Free” digital historical archives are a wonderful byproduct of the digital. The promise of the internet is that we can get seemingly infinite amounts of material that was previously accessible only through visiting a remote archive. But unfortunately “free” isn’t necessarily the same thing as “without cost.” And the cost-incentive equation has now claimed another victim: Google’s newspaper scanning program.

Filed Under: Tradecraft Tagged With: digital history, newspapers