Google Print - print.google.com - In BETA

[user-7256]

Already, Google has released the beta version of its Google Print feature. This is the item of dispute among thousands of authors worldwide. The question: Is it copyright violation?

http://print.google.com

I encourage you read this: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-print-and-authors-guild.html
(from their OFFICIAL blog)

Go Google... if they can continue to wind around copyright laws and other legal issues, they will stay #1 in the search industry for a while, and for that matter, come up in many other industries quickly.

You may notice that the results are limited to three pages, the quality of print is low so that printing does not entice illegal publishing/copying, and only the first three pages of the books are posted. "The Scarlet Letter" is a prime example, lol.

Authors can choose to have their works removed, but cannot repeal that action once taken.

 

[stscac]

Interesting

For those of you without google accounts, get one for this

-Steve

 

[axilant]

They are not stealing. The books they have on there, are usually books that have been donated ebooks from the publishers.

Great place too. This has been out for a few weeks now actually.

 

[holeinone]

The books are not donated but come on a revenue sharing with google on the ads they hope to put up on the site..

 

[axilant]

The books are not donated but come on a revenue sharing with google on the ads they hope to put up on the site..

Publishers have to choose to have it on there in the publisher end of the site is what i ment.

 

[Shorty]

The Author's Guild is trying to sue google over this.

 

[user-7256]

And the authors guild is an organization of publishers & writers.

 

[s\0w]

hmmm. Interesting, Thanks. The jigsaw is comming togheter Google will rule the planet.

 

[mole]

good grief, saw that, this is definite a publisher worry, Google has restricted the number of pages to 1-3? hmm, its now useless.

 

[user-7256]

It's not useless.... I've already used it a few times for some research I've been doing!

 

[Element]

Thank you for such an interesting article Matt, I didnt even know about this untill you posted it. :P

 

[Freakz]

well I just read War & Peace.

 

[josephine]

cool@ :D