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Open for Business

Category: Copyright Law , Google
Folks, get'cher book searches here - Google Print is open for business. Launching today over the hue and cry from publishers and authors, the long-awaited book search component offers full-text-searchability for thousands and thousands of titles. Google itself has proudly blogged here. Now they just have to get U.S. copyright law changed, and they'll be good to go.

Meanwhile, in less-publicized news, Amazon has announced it is selling books BY THE PAGE. Useful for those who only need a chapter, who would otherwise either have to buy the whole book or (far, far more likely) wouldn't buy the book at all. Great incremental sales.

Microsoft, not to be left out, announced a partnership with the British Library to scan its public-domain titles - some 75 million items - although its agreement with the British Library is a little fuzzy as to the distribution of that content.

So many books...so many copyright laws...so little time....And they told me being an English major was useless.
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Posted by Laura Dawson , November 3, 05, 5:16 PM , comments(0) , permalink , Email this post
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