k wrote:
Acidus wrote:
Amazon doesn't make the entire book available for you to read, for free, online.
You tend to be pretty on top of your shit, so I must assume that I've missed something. Last I read, Google was storing whole books, but the system was designed to display only segments relevant to a particular search you run. That's a far cry from making the book available to read in it's entirety. So, then, where is it that you found this information?
Or are you making the leap that some clever folks will find a way, through repeated searches and software to stitch results together, to reproduce the text? Or is it that someone could break into the servers and steal them at which point they're in the wild and impossible to contain?
Don't get me wrong, I think Google's vision of it's Print service has some serious problems, and I don't seek to ignore the concerns of authors and publishers, but based on the knowledge I have, equating this service to a text free-for-all is inaccurate.
That was my impression, that they would take the amazon model of storing the whole thing, only showing the fair use 400 words or what have you.
