Interesting One from The Washington Post. “Think for a moment about the dead-tree problem,” he said. “When you stand in your own personal library looking for something and you realize that A, you can’t remember which book it was in, and B, there’s no way you can go through manually looking at all the pages, then you think, ‘God, I wish all this stuff was online.’ ”
That’s the stated goal of Google’s library project, to create a massive electronic card catalog that will help people find information in published books, much as Google already does with Web pages
Google books good for everyone
I think publishers are missing out on additional marketing if they don’t participate in this program. With 150,000 books published every year, cutting through the clutter is difficult for all but a short list of authors. I am more than happy to have my book A Million Little Pieces of Feces (a comic novel not really a parody of Frey’s book) in this program. Currently it is pending with Google books but is available at Amazon.com which also does something similar with its Search Inside the Book program. Now, Google will eventually have the hyperlink back to Amazon. What could possibly be wrong with that? People won’t read an entire novel online, so I am unconcerned with copyright issues.