Google's battle over library books

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Voska and OSreinstall

---I'd like to know who's against this. I'll make sure not to buy thier books as they have so much to hide.---

No publisher is against this idea. What they're against is someone else controlling it. Publishers all see this as a means to sell more books--a good thing. The problem, as they see it, is that Google is going to make a ton of money from selling ads, using their content. They don't like that idea, and feel they should be paid if their content is being used to sell ads. Note that there's already a group of publishers building their own version of this search:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588-5909533.html

Osreinstall:
You still haven't addressed the question of web search engines. MSN Search, Yahoo, and Google all scan entire copyrighted websites, cache the entire text and show snippets when you search (often multiple snippets from the same site). Should all web search engines be opt-in as well?

One other question--what if the exact same service existed, but they didn't show the snippets, just a ranking of books that contained the particular term of interest? Do you think that would be legal fair use? No text would be given up at all.

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