MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Authors Guild and Google reach settlement: Millions of scanned books to be available.

nekokami · 11-03-2008, 05:43 PM

Yeah, well, no one else was even trying to provide book searching like this. Not the publishers, not any of the other search etc. companies, not Amazon, not any governments. So I'm not going to cry too hard over the "competitive advantage" Google has allegedly gained in this settlement when as far as I can see, no one wanted to compete with them.

11-03-2008, 05:43 PM	#65
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Yeah, well, no one else was even trying to provide book searching like this. Not the publishers, not any of the other search etc. companies, not Amazon, not any governments. So I'm not going to cry too hard over the "competitive advantage" Google has allegedly gained in this settlement when as far as I can see, no one wanted to compete with them.