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The Implications of Google's Digital Library

Posted by Zonk on from the shaking-things-up dept.

Connectmc wrote to mention a CNN article discussing Google's Digital Library project. From the article: "Tony Sanfilippo is of two minds when it comes to Google's ambitious program to scan millions of books and make their text fully searchable on the Internet. On the one hand, Sanfilippo credits the program for boosting sales of obscure titles at Penn State University Press, where he works. On the other, he's worried that Google's plans to create digital copies of books obtained directly from libraries could hurt his industry's long-term revenues."

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  1. Re:Imagine that! by Mr2cents · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm sure people copying books by hand were worried about those printed books in much the same way. But the overall benefits are clear to everyone living today.

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    "It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
  2. Re:Imagine that! by Mr2cents · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's an interesting story, but the guy was burned for translating the bible, not for printing it.

    I found this part hilarious: "printer Peter Schoeffer completed a run of between 3,000 and 6,000 New Testaments. The books were shipped in bales of cloth down the Rhine and smuggled into ports in the south and east of England. Many were collected by order of the Bishop of London, Cuthbert Tunstall, and ceremonially burned in October 1526 in front of St. Paul's Cathedral."

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    "It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey