As an author who actually wants my books to be fully indexed by both Google Book Search and Amazon.com’s Search Inside the book I’m not exactly the most favorite writer of my publishers. (I’ve directly asked one of them and got “we’re talking about that” as a response.) Here’s the story of how the conversation between John Battelle, author of The Search (a book about Google), and his publisher went. According to Mr. Battelle “[his publisher is] afraid of the future. Afraid of what they don’t know…. It’s very irritating to me.”
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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Perhaps not related to this post, but it is about Gmail and I thought you’d like it. http://jewishworldreview.com/0306/weingarten031006.php3
PS I have no relation to this person or site, monetary or otherwise.