Digitizing Books: Two different approaches

Since 2004, Google has scanned over 7 million books as part of the Google Library Project. Understandably, they were sued, and the outcome of two lawsuits is The Google Settlement. A good analysis is here in the Globe and Mail.
As part of the settlement, public libraries in the US will be allowed to have one terminal able to freely access the database. However, non-US libraries are not covered. Google has been busily scanning books which were produced outside of the US and are authored by non-US authors, yet non-US libraries will currently face barriers in accessing the digitized versions.
What is startling is the audacity of project. Rather than consult and evaluate, they just went ahead and started work and are only dealing with whatever fallout after the fact.
Goole's approach is very much unlike the very modest project here in BC, The Best of Books Online, where, with lots of ongoing consultation between BC publishers and libraries, there will be a pilot of making digitized versions of BC non-fiction books available only through public libraries. As part of a consortium that is running the project, BC libraries are taking the lead.