For some time, Google has been working with publishers to make cultural works more widely discoverable online and to create new sources of revenue for them. Today we announced a new partnership with French publishing group La Martinière . We will work together to make La Martinière’s out-of-print, in-copyright works available online, extending their commercial lifespan and preserving important French literary works for future generations. This agreement effectively ends the legal dispute between La Martinière and Google.
Together, Google and La Martinière will produce a list of the publishing group’s out-of-print works. La Martinière will then make these hard-to-find works available for sale online via Google eBooks, under a revenue share deal.
The partnership also looks to the future: La Martinière will let us know which of its out-of-print works it wants scanned - and subsequently made available for sale - when we come across them in our library partners’ collections.
The terms of the agreement may sound familiar: we signed a similar partnership with another French publisher, Hachette Livre, last year . We believe this deal represents another important step in our relationship with French publishers - and that moving forward, these kinds of partnerships will be of great value in preserving and promoting French cultural heritage, and are of long term benefit to French authors and readers.
Posted by Philippe Colombet, Strategic Partnerships Development Manager, Google France
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