The Huffington Post, October 14, 2009 by Pamela Samuelson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/google-books-is-not-a-lib_b_317518.html
Anyone aspiring to create a modern equivalent of the Alexandrian library would not have designed it to transform research libraries into shopping malls, but that is just what Google will be doing if the GBS deal is approved as is.