eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 31 2006 | books, google, search
This is just awesome. Within our lifetimes, it will be possible to think of a piece of media, search for it, and use it instantaneously. Google beginning to make public domain books available is a great start.
Quoted: Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 08 2007 | books, google, copyright, thepugetnewsJohn Lanchester wrote a long piece for the UK Guardian suggesting that Copyright be in effect until "50 years after an author's death" at which time it is available to anyone "for a small royalty."
While the piece is interesting, this argument does not even touch on the idea of corporate personhood. Walt Disney, the imagineer, may be dead, but the company still lives.
I'm actually much more aggressive with my suggestion. Copyright should be installed for renewable periods of 12 years. If you fail to make your product available at reasonable price to people who desire it, then you lose the copyright. It seems absolutely silly to know that so many publishing houses and heirs own rights to works we can never see, which they themselves did not produce.
ShareViewed: 3 Times- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 05 2007 | google, search, books, libraries, scanning, thepugetnews
This is very detailed accounting of where the Google Book Search effort is at with regards to their library scanning endeavors. There are many helpful links and a good overview of all the major issues.
Quoted: Like Harvard and the NYPL, Oxford continues to explore how best to use its digital copies. When asked to describe how his library currently uses and/or plans to use digital copies received from Google, Popham replied, “At the moment, we are simply planning to archive and preserve our copy of the data generated by our joint project with Google.” Popham went on to say that Oxford will link from its catalog record to the images hosted at Google [http://books.google.com]. Finally, Popham explained, “The scale and scope of this project is such that we are only just beginning to consider some of the possibilities that this work may enable.”
ShareViewed: 7 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 30 2007 | google, books, business, universal library, library, GOOG, strategy
An excellent response on TechDirt to the unviersal Google library article I dotted earlier today from the New Yorker.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 30 2007 | books, google, search, library, universal library, Jeffrey Toobin
A fascinating New Yorker article about the Google's attempts to pull together a "universal library." Major publishers ar finding themselves in the awkward position of being for and against this since it will help them sell books but leaves control of the full copyrighted script in Google's hands.
Quoted: The New Yorker
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eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2007 | google, search, books, ereader, Amazon.com, amazon, digital, news, technology
The actual article in the "London Times Online." Google is certainly not dodging the question or trying to keep this secret. I still really want to get a Sony Reader.
If only I could navigate my own book library with an ereader and add my titles to carry around digitally, I"d be psyched. You hear that Amazon? You can start by just making available all of those books I've already bought from you...
Quoted: GOOGLE and some of the world’s top publishers are working on plans that they hope could do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music.The internet search giant is working on a system that would allow readers to download entire books
ShareViewed: 2 Times- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2007 | google, search, books, ebooks, ereader, news, technology
I'd really like to be able to get ANY book on a reader device and bypass the whole wasteful paper thing. If this CNet post is true, Google is working n making this closer to happening.
ShareViewed: 10 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 09 2006 | google, internet, search, books, library, UCSC
I'm a big fan of Amazon and Google's efforts to digitize printed materials and archive/make them available. I'm psyched that my alma mater, UCSC, is now part of the program! Go banana slugs!
Quoted: Google and U.C. sign contract to digitize books | Google set to digitize millions of books from the University of California's more than 100 libraries across its 10 campuses. | August 8, 2006, 9:01 PM PT | Elinor Mills
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 15 2006 | books, Shaekspeare, search, Google
This is awesome! Google has made available all of Shakespeare's works on a custom portal page. Now you can search all of his texts.
I submitted this idea at Amazon more than 2 years ago and no action was taken. How about placing all public domain scanned books online, huh?
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 21 2005 | Google, GOOG, books
Why $180 for a downloadable PDF? I know it's Google but geez!
Quoted: Google, search, internet future, ebook, e-book, search engines, email, office software, mapping software
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- don - Sep 01 2006
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Thanks for dotting this Eric- it's a great idea for Google.
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