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The Future of Online Publishing
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A Fool Looks Back
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz
"It's easy to see why the writers organization would want a say in Google's plan for world domination. Google Print is aiming to scan millions of books to make them searchable online. Google is claiming that it has a legal right to do so as "fair use" and that it will only be reporting on snippets of copyrighted works.
"There's a lot at stake for Google, the world's leader in online advertising. There is nothing as lucrative as paid search, when folks are connected and in seek mode. Google can smell the golden opportunity of using literary classics to expand its reach in a field that it already dominates.
"Companies like online retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) allow users to perform limited searches of book text, but that has been done with publisher cooperation and the ultimate intent to sell. This issue may prove to be a challenge for Google"
Is Google leading the way much like Napster did some 6 years ago? Will we be downloading more text through pay per page services because it was easy to search for find and read online through Google?
The RIAA caught up with the technology and made deals with pay per download services and are making bundles off of it while their sales haven't taken even a slight hit at the record stores.
Personally I can't stand to stare at a computer screen to read a 500 page novel, but if printing your own would cost less than buying a slightly used copy online, I'd consider it. |
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