Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google

Cory Doctorow weighs in on Google Book Search. Here’s the first paragraph.

“Google’s new Book Search promises to save writers’ and publishers’ asses by putting their books into the index of works that are visible to searchers who get all their information from the Internet. In response, publishers and writers are suing Google, claiming that this ass-saving is in fact a copyright violation. When you look a little closer, though, you see that the writer/publisher objections to Google amount to nothing more than rent-seeking: an attempt to use legal threats to milk Google for some of the money it will make by providing this vital service to us ink-stained scribblers.”

Cory is the author that makes the complete text of all of his books available for free on his Web site as well as publishing them in print.

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