Publishers and authors forsake their place in the digital future by thwarting Google Print for Libraries. But that doesn't mean that, like the music labels, they won't spend the next few years blazing a noisy path of self-destruction.
Can anyone tell me what the hell the difference is between this (print.google.com) and Amazon's "Search Inside" is? I've used both on exactly the same book and got exactly the same results. Must be that Amazon's is opt-in, while Google's is opt-out. But who the hell doesn't opt-in for Amazon?
Regardless of the outcome of this lawsuite and others, as iTunes will destroy the existing music distributers, so will emerging technologies destroy the existing publishing industry, whether they like it or not. And frankly, I'll be glad to see them go.
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