The number of book titles accessible to people who are blind or dyslexic is small, even though audio versions of best-sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books.

U.S. Internet search engine giant Google should not be allowed nearly exclusive rights to out-of-print books for its online publishing venture, critics say.

Courtney Mitchel, of the University of Michigan library’s book-shelving department is among hundreds of librarians who spend hours of each day going through almost 600 pages of some of the world’s oldest books.

By Ashmore, Beth Grogg, Jill E Internet giants such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Amazon are in the middle of nothing short of a MODERN-DAY SPACE RACE: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.

NASA's images from the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle missions will be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a partnership between the space agency and the nonprofit Internet Archive.