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Originally Posted by fjtorres
If you go back to the 2009 threads here and in Teleread you'll find google had a lot of supporters because they were promising to bring out ebooks of tons of out-of-print titles.
It was 2009.
A wholly different era.
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Bring back out-of-print titles?! Why the audacity! That would have been horrible.
OK, so I was wrong. I can admit it. But when someone tells me the AG lawsuit stopped Google from creating an ebook store from their scanned books, I got the distinct impression that they were talking about preventing them from selling their scanned copies of King, Baldacci, Rowling, Binchy, Murakami,
et al. Not that Google had in fact, had the audacity to want to make ebooks of titles that publishers no longer saw enough value in to keep in print. My mistake.
Some of those authors of out-of-print books sure owe the AG a debt of gratitude for keeping Google from bringing any attention to works of theirs that can't be purchased anywhere anymore.
