On Google Print
I think that Google Print is a wonderful project! And I totally agree with PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak that it should be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for doing this, instead of getting all the flak from the publishers and writers…
Much Ado over Google Book Search
The fuss over this book-search initiative is idiotic and naïve. It’s not as if Google is printing books, or that any of these books are readable as complete editions on Google: They are not. With many of the books, whole sections are removed and unavailable. You can thumb through a few hard-to-read pages, but that’s it.
This is a research tool and a public resource most of all, and it is no threat to writers or publishers. It’s too bad that this supposedly intellectual crowd doesn’t understand this—it indicates how far down the societal pecking order they have fallen during the rise of the technological society.
