Thread: Google versus Authors Guild - the next chapter
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Old 08-31-2013, 01:22 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
You have to wonder what percentage of the 20 million scanned are PD books and how many of the 20 million are books that are read by the majority of the reading public. I mean surely some of the books are titles that are out of print or are by authors who aren't well known. Not everyone is a Stephen King or a James Michener for example.
They still deserve to have their rights respected.
I'm no fan of the AG but on the "orphan" books land-grab Google is way out of line.
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