Amazon.com, Randon House and Harper Collins UK hit back with their own digitisation plans:

Amazon.com to sell books by the page - The Boston Globe

Random House Announces Ambitious Pay-Per-Page E-Book Project

Harper Collins makes provision for digital developments - Publishing News - News Page

Google posts first books online

Google has gone ahead with its plans to start digitising library books, but to date it has limited itself to works which are out of copywright:

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google posts first books online