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Amazon In Book Printing Deal With University Of Michigan

Amazon.com is partnering with the University of Michigan to reprint 400,000 titles that are no longer under copyright protection or are out of print. Amazon's BookSurge unit will print and bind the books in soft cover and they will be available on the site for $10 to $45 depending on the length.

Google Co-founder Addresses University of Michigan

Google co-founder Larry Page gave a quite inspirational speech at the University of Michigan the other day, and the Google Press Center found it so great, they decided to release it to the public. The entire thing is transcribed here (and the video's below), but to sum it up, it's about following your dreams to make a difference. At least that's what I got out of it.

RIAA Targets Michigan Students, Draws NPR Ire

Privacy is a hot word around the blogosphere today; Google is protecting it and the RIAA is employing every trick in their playbook to circumvent a user’s right to privacy by pressuring ISPs and Universities to voluntarily hand over identifying information pertaining to users who are allegedly violating copyright law by sharing digital music over the school’s network.