Can google get away with that?

This is partly a societal debate, do you want digital access to every book ever published? and how do you balance people searching online through the books for research with people buying the books?

Here's an article on the debate:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/09/settling-the-google-book-debate-and-other-unicorn-fantasies/

Google has taken the lead (by hooking up with university libraries) but doesn't have the be the defacto digital book repository. Other people have started their scanning projects:

http://www.diybookscanner.org/

What great about google books search system is you can poke any search into alot of the books you might be familiar with. "Empire Building" has been scanned for instance. This whole system is in it's infancy, was at Maker Faire (http://www.makerfaire.com/) and there were a couple book scanning people there, the tech is really low, just a cheap digital camera and a wood and glass contraption. Flip the page, lower the glass, which triggers the camera, raise the glass, flip the page, lower the glass, etc. probably close to a 100 pages an hour. don't know about the OCR'ng after wards but with a group of proof readers from the public, errors could be fixed so the digital matches the print.

The other amazing thing there were the 3d printers. watching a machine print out an object is something else. Although crude and requiring some finishing everything was generic but among all the random stuff was a 3d printed Vader and Stormtrooper head.

http://vodpod.com/watch/1744394-makerbot-dreams-of-evil-darth-vader-heads

As for the early synopsis page, this must be page 1 of 2, the second page containing the plot layout for episodes 7-12 which GL had told Kenner's marketing department and Bantha Tracks around this time.