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Unfortunately as I understand it, the scan is total, and the selection offered at each load is random. This amounts to use far in excess of fair use, and if I do not legally protest such a non-licensed use I weaken my case to pursue any random pirate who decides it's ok to scan them. Plus if he wants to save himself a lot of scanning effort, he can, I understand, simply log on several times and have massive amounts of the text pre-done for him.
While Google's notions may be noble, the use made of the scan, given the number of pirates out there, is not necessarily so. Amazon offers free looks into many of my books, as do I on my own sites: I have no trouble at all with that, nor do I get any 'payment' nor ask any for Amazon's 'free look'. The issue is whole book scan and the capacity for misuse.
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