A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project.

一年以前，Google推出了Google出版计划，给地球上的每一本书进行扫描。

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On Thursday November 3rd, Google, the world’s most popular search engine, posted a first instalment of books on Google Print, an initiative first mooted a year ago.

11月3号，本周四，全球最大搜索引擎Google提出将作第一个吃螃蟹者，在Google Print上安装书籍下载。 这个计划早在几年前就提出来了。

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Under the agreement's terms, Google will be free to digitise most books published in America, including those that are out of print.

协议条款规定，谷歌可任意把美国出版的大部分图书搬到网上，包括已不再印刷的绝版书。

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And to do that, we're doing this taco truck thing and we're also purchasing Facebook ads and Google ads and doing the standard thing and looking into print media and the Union of Accountants because they might be influencers and their trade magazines.

为了做到这个，我们要做这个塔克卡车的东西并且,我们要购买Facebook的广告,和谷歌的广告，然后让它们标准化,在平面媒体和,会计联合会中寻找机会因为,它们很可能成为影响因素，他们的贸易杂志也很有影响力。

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Google cofounder Sergey Brin pointed out that half the Google Print engineering team is French.

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The much-heralded project called Google Print would provide free online copies of out-of-copyright books and newer books still protected by copyrights, making them searchable with snippets of text available online.

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