In 2004, search engine behemoth Google began working with libraries around the world to digitize 10 million public-domain books, which were stored on Google's servers and made available to users free of charge. Though the move was viewed in some quarters as controversial, there's no denying that it has profoundly changed reader habits.
2004 年搜尋引擎巨擘 Google 和全球各大圖書館合作，總共掃描了一千萬冊公共領域書籍，並免費開放讀者線上閱讀，雖然迄今版權仍有很大爭議，但對改變讀者閱讀習慣的確起了推動效果。