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Sunday, 20th November 2005

Will the Online Book Publishing Flap Rewrite Copyright Law? & Search Inside the Book & ebrary

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Online Book Publishing--Copyright
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Will the Online Book Publishing Flap Rewrite Copyright Law?
"The latest frontier in the digital content revolution -- efforts by Google, Amazon and others to turn millions of books into bytes that can be accessed no matter where the reader is, sold by the page and easily searched -- could redefine copyright law and change the way knowledge is shared around the world, say experts at Wharton."
See Also: Amazon.com's Search Inside the Book-"Extra" Services"
See Also: ebrary: Search and Read 20,000+ Full Text Books Online
See Also: Google Print Becomes Google Book Search
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Google Books Search
Source: NY Times
Coverage of the Google Book/Print Debate at the NY Public Library
The following is a great reminder that services like Google Print are being developed to first and foremost sell books. I think most librarians realize this but if they don't the following will serve as a reminder. From the article:
Mr. [Allan] Adler [a vice president for legal and governmental affairs at the Association of American Publishers]said Google's contention that its search program might somehow increase sales of books was speculation at best.

"When people make inquiries using Google's search engine and they come up with references to books, they are just as likely to come to this fine institution to look up those references as they are to buy them," he said, referring to the Public Library.

To which Google's Mr. Drummond [Google's general counsel] replied, "Horrors."
Thanks to JB for pointing out this quote.

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