Amazon's Book Search Hits a Snag

The Importance of writes "Yesterday, Slashdot readers discussed Amazon's brand new, technically impressive and highly useful book search feature that lets users search the full text of over 120,000 books. Today, the Authors Guild is saying that the publishers don't have the right to let Amazon do this. Uh oh."

Comments

Re:Because google *DOSN'T HAVE EVERYTHING*

[Saeger]

I had to actualy get up off my ass and [get] to the library in order to write a paper about 'em.

What a waste of energy! Instead of clicking a few keys for convenient access to information, you needed: 1) the sun to pump out a bunch of energy for plants. 2) you had to eat a bunch of that food for calories. 3) had to spend that energy using inefficient legs to walk to your inefficient car to drive to the library to check out a heavy deadtree book. 4) that wasted time in transit and in line could have been used more productively. !!! :-)

Here's to the efficiency of sitting on our asses.

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Re:Ohhh what

[shog9]

I can't memorize programming techniques

This is because you sip your coffee, instead of chugging it like a Real Programmer.

Re:revolution

[NonSequor]

I'm a math student and I hope to write my own textbook some day. Not because I'll get royalties for it, but because I want to make it cheap and fill it with curse words. That's the way text books should be.