Frankfurt, Germany - Google (NASD: GOOG) has doubled the number of publishers who are participating in its massive project to scan and index the world's books, and now counts some 20,000 partners, Reuters reported. The project has drawn criticism from some publishers, who claim that Google's use of their works constitutes copyright infringement. "We're getting publishers get their content to more and more relevant people and, vice versa, we're getting users in contact with relevant content they probably didn't know existed," Santiago de la Mora, Google's head of book partnerships in Europe, told Reuters.

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