Comments on: Google and the Future of Books http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090128/darnton-2/ from other Web sites Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mac Beach http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090128/darnton-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1300 Mac Beach Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:42:41 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=8000#comment-1300 I ran the above through Google translate and it couldn't make any sense of it. Anyway, I'm all for more stuff being online. If you've ever used a first class university library the ordinary community ones just won't do. Good enough for high school kids to do their homework, but not much beyond that. We need to get this stuff online and searchable, and Google is providing the copyright holders incentive to do what they aught to be doing in the first place, namely getting their content out there in digital form where MORE people can get at and potentially PAY for it. Between Google and Kindle we might soon end the chains that bind us to the owners of printing presses I ran the above through Google translate and it couldn’t make any sense of it.

Anyway, I’m all for more stuff being online. If you’ve ever used a first class university library the ordinary community ones just won’t do. Good enough for high school kids to do their homework, but not much beyond that.

We need to get this stuff online and searchable, and Google is providing the copyright holders incentive to do what they aught to be doing in the first place, namely getting their content out there in digital form where MORE people can get at and potentially PAY for it.

Between Google and Kindle we might soon end the chains that bind us to the owners of printing presses

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]]> By: Steve Sheehy http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090128/darnton-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1290 Steve Sheehy Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:48:10 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=8000#comment-1290 Pool your resources guys , Google infringe copyright e/where , pay people off , take over content and jam e/one , has e/one gone mad , there is that many services to work with to leverage you lazy mothers , all cos stand together like a union and buyback , standover the BIG G , and dictate back to them like they do to e/one else , a union of activists , probably acting against contracts and copyright , can beat the biggest copyright infringing , law - breaking , profit - destroying co and give them a taste of what e/one else is copping . Who infringed law first should be the pre-determinent in which is the wining law-suit . They have some good stuff too , but they don't give a rip about a/thing , just there own vision and dominance . The M/soft of the next-gen . Have your say please Pool your resources guys , Google infringe copyright e/where , pay people off , take over content and jam e/one , has e/one gone mad , there is that many services to work with to leverage you lazy mothers , all cos stand together like a union and buyback , standover the BIG G , and dictate back to them like they do to e/one else , a union of activists , probably acting against contracts and copyright , can beat the biggest copyright infringing , law – breaking , profit – destroying co and give them a taste of what e/one else is copping . Who infringed law first should be the pre-determinent in which is the wining law-suit . They have some good stuff too , but they don’t give a rip about a/thing , just there own vision and dominance . The M/soft of the next-gen . Have your say please

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