Google

Interesting article on the BBC News site regarding Google’s plan to ‘ingest’ or ‘digitize’ every printed book on the planet.  Despite assurances regarding the sale of these works (that Google won’t), it raises interesting issues about copyrights.  What prospect does an author have of continuing to sell his or her work when it has been bought, scanned, and indexed by the runaway leading search engine?

I love Google — Google brings a lot of visitors to this blog (well I guess some work on SEO has helped).  But I haven’t thought much about this issue and am inclined to deepen my study of this one!

What do you think?

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