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Alexander Turcic · 10-09-2006, 09:55 AM

Controversy trails Google Book Search wherever it goes. Common sense would lead a person to believe that the project could only be good for the publishers. Alas some publishers like to see things differently. And despite all the recent lawsuits alleging copyright violation, Reuters has an interesting news piece telling us that at least for some publishers the search engine can actually work in their favor. Colleen Scollans of Oxford U Press has admitted during the Frankfurt Book Fair this week that "Google Book Search has helped us turn searchers into consumers," with a "significant" growth in sales.

Not sure whom to believe, but could it be that Google Book Search is good for one publisher and bad for the other?

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10-09-2006, 09:55 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Google Book Search may not be bad for publishers after all Controversy trails Google Book Search wherever it goes. Common sense would lead a person to believe that the project could only be good for the publishers. Alas some publishers like to see things differently. And despite all the recent lawsuits alleging copyright violation, Reuters has an interesting news piece telling us that at least for some publishers the search engine can actually work in their favor. Colleen Scollans of Oxford U Press has admitted during the Frankfurt Book Fair this week that "Google Book Search has helped us turn searchers into consumers," with a "significant" growth in sales. Not sure whom to believe, but could it be that Google Book Search is good for one publisher and bad for the other? [via /.]