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U.C. Professors Seek Changes to Google Books Deal
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... central role in negotiating the settlement, did not appropriately represent the interests of academic authors, many of whom want their works to be widely accessible. “We are concerned that the Authors Guild negotiators likely prioritized maximizing profits over maximizing public access to knowledge, while academic authors would have reversed those priorities,” the group wrote. “We note that the scholarly books written by academic authors constitute a much more substantial part of the Book Search corpus than the Authors Guild members’ books.” However, the group does not ...
Bits: U.C. Professors Seek Changes to Google Books Deal
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... central role in negotiating the settlement, did not appropriately represent the interests of academic authors, many of whom want their works to be widely accessible. “We are concerned that the Authors Guild negotiators likely prioritized maximizing profits over maximizing public access to knowledge, while academic authors would have reversed those priorities,” the group wrote. “We note that the scholarly books written by academic authors constitute a much more substantial part of the Book Search corpus than the Authors Guild members’ books.” However, the group does not ...
Google, Amazon Increasingly at Odds Over E-Books
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... and whose copyright have expired, comes on the heels of similar agreements that Google has struck with Amazon rivals like Sony and Barnes & Noble . The Cool-er, a little known device made by British company Interead, has gotten poor reviews . The agreements for public domain books are certain to give a boost to the Kindle challengers, but that device and its accompanying e-bookstore still dominate the e-book market. As expected , Amazon fired back at Google’s book scanning project, filing an opposition to Google’s landmark settlement ...
Bits: Google, Amazon Increasingly at Odds Over E-Books
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... and whose copyright have expired, comes on the heels of similar agreements that Google has struck with Amazon rivals like Sony and Barnes & Noble . The Cool-er, a little known device made by British company Interead, has gotten poor reviews . The agreements for public domain books are certain to give a boost to the Kindle challengers, but that device and its accompanying e-bookstore still dominate the e-book market. As expected , Amazon fired back at Google’s book scanning project, filing an opposition to Google’s landmark settlement ...
Google's Fast Flip Deal Has a Familiar Ring
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... has become familiar. Publishers complain that Google makes money off their backs and want to be paid for their content. Google replies that what it does — indexing the Web, offering search tools that allow people to find content — is not only perfectly legal, but also benefits publishers. The battle has unfolded with news publishers over Google News and Google.com and with book publishers over Google Book Search and others. Now Google’s way of bending to publishers’ pressure is beginning to take a familiar shape, too. Google has continued to insist that what it does is ...
Bits: Google's Fast Flip Deal Has a Familiar Ring
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... has become familiar. Publishers complain that Google makes money off of their backs and want to be paid for their content. Google replies that what it does — indexing the Web, offering search tools that allow people to find content — is not only perfectly legal but also benefits publishers. The battle has unfolded with news publishers over Google News and Google.com and with book publishers over Google Book Search and others. Now Google’s way of bending to publishers’ pressure is beginning to take a familiar shape, too. Google has continued to insist that what it does is ...
Google Buys Service That Uses Humans to Digitize Books
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... Google Book Search project. It has been scanning old books from libraries for more than five years and runs character recognition software on those scans to convert them to plain text, so they can be easily searched and displayed on mobile devices. The next time you solve a captcha puzzle to log into a Web site, you may be helping that effort.
Bits: Google Buys Service to Help Digitize Books
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... Google Book Search project. It has been scanning old books from libraries for more than five years and runs character recognition software on those scans to convert them to plain text, so they can be easily searched and displayed on mobile devices. The next time you solve a captcha puzzle to log into a Web site, you may be helping that effort.
