Google searches, publishers stay put

Shrihar Balan SaysLooking back at 2005, the single most important development that affected the world of publishing, was the Google challenge. This was the mission statement of the search engine: “To organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible”. Google stated that books would come under its ambit and explicitly stated that it was for publishers to state which books they would leave out of the program of digital conversion. Understandably, this created a furore among publishers as they saw this as a gross violation of the existing laws on copyright, and a threat to the very existence of the printed format.

December 28, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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