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Google Print Holds The Presses
brokenarmsgordon writes "Google Print, the project launched in December to digitize the entire collections of five major libraries, has been put on hold until November. Google will stop cataloging in-copyright books until November to give publishers time to decide if they would like to participate and to mark which books they want excluded from the index. "
Why, all of them of course..
I cant imagine them letting too many of their 'products' become free...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Our precious, precious books, we aren't gonna let those evil copyright pirates just digitize them and advertise them for free to billions of people. No, we are not. We are rather going to spend many millions of dollars each year to advertise our books ourselves. Yeah, those superbowl ads for the latest critical edition of Hamlet or a historical analysis of Islam, those are gonna rake in the millions. Right.
...what horrible things can happen when information finds its way into a search engine. ;)
+5:offtopic,but anti-American
Speak for yourself -- I know ancient Greek, you insensitive clod!
Google should set the Page Rank of every web page under the control of any publisher who refuses to allow their works into Google Print to zero.
After all, if they hurt Google, Google is under no obligation to make it so their site appears before page 800 in the search results.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!