More on Google and publishers

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

A very long blog post on Boing Boing today:

(http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/14/why_publishing_shoul.html) 
on Google's library project.  I have pasted in the first 
paragraph below.  The post is unattributed, but sounds to my ear 
like Cory Doctorow.

Joe Esposito

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Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google

Google's new Book Search promises to save writers' and 
publishers' asses by putting their books into the index of works 
that are visible to searchers who get all their information from 
the Internet. In response, publishers and writers are suing 
Google, claiming that this ass-saving is in fact a copyright 
violation. When you look a little closer, though, you see that 
the writer/publisher objections to Google amount to nothing more 
than rent-seeking: an attempt to use legal threats to milk Google 
for some of the money it will make by providing this vital 
service to us ink-stained scribblers.

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