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   XAXAXA, 28 Jun 2006 @ 3:25pm

   
   

   Here is a post for you you lonely article ....

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   Anonymous Coward, 28 Jun 2006 @ 3:52pm

   
   

   while here in the US on the other hand

   while here in the US on the other hand, the major publishers will simply do as the RIAA and MPAA do when Google or some blog site gives free advertising to something, the publisher's will pay off the courts, or at the very least, do all they can to make them seem to be the devil incarnate...

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   ?, 28 Jun 2006 @ 4:46pm

   
   

   Re: while here in the US on the other hand

   It just doesn't make any since - why sue people who show an interest in your work?
   
   Stealing is one thing, but what Google is doing is completely different.

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   rijit (profile), 28 Jun 2006 @ 6:13pm

   
   

   It's all about Money and Control.

   The whole issue boils down to control, publishers think they are loosing control because Google never asked them. If Google had of offered some small nominal money per entry they would have jumped all over it but since Google is doing it and will make money from it, the publishers think they should get some money. I tend to kind of agree, to an extent, though small nominal fee, not some big royalty. The only reason I say that is Google will make money off the project, they are not doing it to be humanitarian, greed drives this project like every other at Google or any Corp, their bottom line are the profits. So, using advertising on the project, Google will make money from said project. If they were completely free I still think there would be lawsuits since I believe it is more about control and no one wants to loose it.

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   Sean, 28 Jun 2006 @ 6:32pm

   
   

   lol..

   It's kind of funny to see these stupid people. Because basically they are saying they don't want free advertising for their book. It's something online, where millions of people visit each day. What's not to be beneficial there?
   
   Though people like to keep 'control' over their products, this seems a bit of a step too far. Just get over the fact that printing shit on this so called 'paper' isn't working anymore. SAVE THE TREES :D
   
   That's my two cents.

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   Anonymous Coward, 28 Jun 2006 @ 7:42pm

   
   

   change scares people. i think that's the basis of it. they're afraid of doing something different... that if the boat is rocked, they'll fall out and DIE

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   Thomas, 28 Jun 2006 @ 8:27pm

   
   

   Re: It's all about Money and Control.

   The publishers are making money off of it also, since google's only showing a snippet of the book, the person doing the search will still need to go out and buy the book to get the full text of it, Unless publishers are somehow worried this will cause a sudden rise in people getting library cards.

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