Free the Orphans: Are we being played for fools in Google Books play?

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Give me a Break

Google paid to digitize those books. Google paid to setup the storage and bandwidth infrastructure to host the books, and google made an agreement with the authors to be able to publish those books.

If anyone else would like to do the same thing they can feel free to build their own server farm, pay the millions to scan the books, and then wait to get sued themselves.

The agreement with libraries to do so was not a secret; it was announced on google's website.

Google has been working on this for years. If Microsoft, Amazon, and Archive.org were too dumb not to try to replicate what google did, then they shouldn't try to vilify them now that google has established a way to monetize all of that work.

The naysayers are just trying to use the DOJ and the court system to stymie all of Google's hard work because they don't know hot to compete.

Posted by: vincetraylor   Posted on: 09/23/09  (Edited: 09/23/2009 @ 12:17) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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