Eric Schmidt sure does write a better op-ed than Pat Schroeder and Bob Barr. The bottom line is the customer gets a better experience and the publishers will make more since people will be better able to find books. Yes, Google is bound to make a butt-load; that's what companies that provide revolutionarily useful services do. Once an idea like thing is out, no one can put it down again - it's just too damn useful. Killing the google print project would be like making libraries go back to card catalogues.
Even after reading this op-ed I don't understand where the AAP is coming from. Are they afraid Google will start offering entire books as the op-ed suggests? That is ridiculous; Google would get their ass sued and there is no way around that. IMO the AAP is terrified of losing power: the power to control market demand, the power to let older publications fade into oblivian, the power to do things the same way they know and like. Just as the *IAAs desperately tried to maintain the status quo, the APP follows suit. The *IAA lost power and it was going against an unorganized group of theives. The AAP doesn't stand a chance against a $80 billion dollar enterprise that will text message you, for free, the phone number of the nearest pizza place. AAP: get with the times.
And for all you hyper-drunken programmers (or those who wish to become hyper-drunken programmers) in the midwest, check out Lakefront Brewery's Fuel Cafe brew. Made especially for the independent cafe in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood. And if beer is not your flavor check out Sparks at a store near you to satisfy all your alchohol/caffine/taurine needs!
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Even after reading this op-ed I don't understand where the AAP is coming from. Are they afraid Google will start offering entire books as the op-ed suggests? That is ridiculous; Google would get their ass sued and there is no way around that. IMO the AAP is terrified of losing power: the power to control market demand, the power to let older publications fade into oblivian, the power to do things the same way they know and like. Just as the *IAAs desperately tried to maintain the status quo, the APP follows suit. The *IAA lost power and it was going against an unorganized group of theives. The AAP doesn't stand a chance against a $80 billion dollar enterprise that will text message you, for free, the phone number of the nearest pizza place. AAP: get with the times.
And for all you hyper-drunken programmers (or those who wish to become hyper-drunken programmers) in the midwest, check out Lakefront Brewery's Fuel Cafe brew. Made especially for the independent cafe in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood. And if beer is not your flavor check out Sparks at a store near you to satisfy all your alchohol/caffine/taurine needs!