Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Amazon's Book Search Hits a Snag

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 25, 2003 @10:47AM from the oopsie dept.

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."

1 of 299 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Attempt to avoid being busted for Plagiarism? by SilentMajority · 2003-10-25 11:08 · Score: 5, Interesting

Imagine....thousands of authors being busted for plagiarism because of Amazon's search feature.

What a nightmare it must be for those that built up lucrative careers and solid reputations on the backs of others--they're hoping they can hide behind the lawyers.