Google library goes online
p2p news / p2pnet: Google is being sued because of copyright wrangles centering on its Google Print online library project.
In the meanwhile, however, it’s launched the beta – featuring books in the public domain and scanned from works held by such as Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the New York public library.
Is Google Print straight from the heart? Nope. Straight from the wallet because there’s a “Google twist” ;p
“Sign up for the Google Print publisher program to attract new readers and boost book sales, earn new revenue from Google contextual ads, and interact more closely with your customers through direct ‘Buy this Book’ links back to your website,” it tells publishers who might be thinking of participating.
The catch?
Although readers will be able to see entire books in the public domain, they’ll “only be able to see a few sentences” of books still under copyright after all, “Google Print is designed to help you discover books, not read them from start to finish. It’s like going to a bookstore and browsing – only with a Google twist.”
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See:-
copyright wrangles – Google print: doing no evil, October 14, 2005
November 3rd, 2005 at 4:21 pm
Thats not a twist… this is how it always should be… just an online way to find book… thats what Google wanted to create… everyone just misinterpreted… @_@
I sure hope p2pnet isn’t bias against Google?
November 3rd, 2005 at 4:23 pm
For anybody looking for low-cost books, there are things called libraries now.
Vast compendiums of knowledge where you can get vast amounts of books, and now also CDs & movies!!
November 4th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
Todays nes is that Google and Amazon.com plan to sell on the net pages and chapters of book.For example, one recipe from a recipe book or a music score from a music score book.
Some questions and my answers:
-If it is possible to compete with free stuff on the net?
I doubt it.
-Are books destined to dissapear too, like CDs?
Yes. Newspapers too.
-Will we see a repeat of the p2p embarrasments for the obsolete cartel and obsolete too legislators here?
Yes. Everyone is so busy getting rich that they have forgotten how to work
-Are the copyright laws ready?
No. They never were even when radio and phonorecords arrived. That is why even most lawyers do not understand the copyright laws which some lawyers think should be understood by kids and ordinary folks (the ones sued by RIAA and MPAA member)
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com