“Google Begins to Scale Back Its Scanning of Books From University Libraries”

Google has been quietly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, according to librarians involved with the vast Google Books digitization project. But what that means for the company's long-term investment in the work remains unclear. Is Google running out of books to scan? Has it shifted its priorities away from collecting the world's knowledge? There may be more than one reason for the slowdown.