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France Pledges $1.1-Billion to Digitize Archives
By admin | December 16, 2009
France Pledges $1.1-Billion to Digitize Archives
France will spend $1.1-billion on digitizing its archives, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Monday, in an effort to maintain control over its literary history. But the investment doesn’t mean France is dismissing collaborating with Google, The New York Times reported.
An announcement earlier this year that the French government was working with Google to digitize its history angered the
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