+ Last week (Friday and Saturday), the D for Digitize Conference sponsored by the New York Law School to place in NYC. There were numerous panels (with a very impressive roster of speakers) discussing Google Book Search. You can review the conference program here. A video archive of the conference sessions is coming soon.
Dan Clancy, engineering director for Google Books, apparently opened the door to the possibility of Google including ads on the institutional subscriptions they propose to sell to libraries. He was responding to keynote panelist Pam Samuelson, who passionately took issue with yet another revenue stream exclusively protected for Google in the settlement. Prof. Samuelson* had recently heard that the institutional subscriptions sold to research libraries would come along with advertising. [Snip}
Clancy did not rule out this approach, despite being given the opportunity to do so. If we do.., he stated, we would talk to subscription customers about an arrangement where customers would get a discounted subscription that comes with ads or pay more for no ads.
When pressed by Samuelson, Clancy indicated that while Google would talk to the research library customers about these arrangements, they were not expecting to talk to the academic, research and student communities who would use the service and be served the ads, based of course on what they were reading.
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