Google provides list of scanned Chinese works

Internet giant, Google, has provided a list of tens of thousands of Chinese books to the China Written Works Copyright Society. Google's digital library project had earlier scanned works from famous Chinese writers and scholars without getting authorization.

In its recent second round of talks with Google, the Chinese Written Works Copyright Society asked to be given a list of titles that had been scanned, a demand to which Google agreed in the third round. More than 80 thousand pieces of written work are allegedly on that list.

Zhang Hongbo, Deputy Director-General of Chinese Written Works Copyright Society said "Upon receiving the list, we spent hours examining and checking the titles. We found that the books included works of almost all of China's leading writers, scholars, and academics. It's quite extensive. But we find out that the list supplied includes only those titles published since 1987, when China adopted the ISBN system. We are asking Google to provide a more accurate, complete list. "