text: It's possible that there could be a new mass digitization initiative, turning physical books into 
  new digital scans. At least in theory, one could try to replicate the existing corpora of 
  HathiTrust, for example, without Google’s contractual limitations. At the same time, such an 
  effort would take many years, and it seems unlikely that many libraries would want to go to 
  the trouble to have their collections digitized a second time. Moreover, while new scans may 
  provide some incremental beneﬁt over use of existing ones (e.g., by using the most modern 
  digitization and OCR tools and thus improving accuracy), there is no inherent social value to 
  making every entity that wants to do or allow AI training invest in their own redundant 
  scanning. 
  
  A new digitization effort could target works that have not been yet digitized. This may be 
  particularly useful given that previous book digitization efforts, and the Google Books project 
  in particular, have focused heavily (though not exclusively) on libraries in English-speaking 
  countries. Additional digitization efforts might make more sense for books in those 
  languages that have not yet been digitized at a meaningful scale. Any new digitization effort 
  might therefore start with a mapping of the extent to which a books corpus in a given 
  language has been digitized. 