With news that publishers, authors and Google have finally arrived at an agreement for scanning and digitizing all the books in the world - the argument for out-of-print books never being out of print again remains true, as well as that of inspiring innovators. The net made dictionaries, phonebooks, maps and news more current; it opened unimagined venues for filmmakers, musicians, and burgeoning enterpreneurs - one can only dream of the potentials it can offer writers, editors and publishers.