Those nutty Europeans. They are forming a collective effort to create an openly accessible digital library, instead of letting Google do it.
“The European Commission unveiled on 30 September its strategy to make Europe’s written and audiovisual heritage available on the Internet.”
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/05/347&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en