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Crusader · 07-01-2009, 02:46 PM

I doubt Google book search would be detrimental to sales by authors. In fact I've found it very useful to see if a particular book would be something I like since it's very rare that I can actually visit a physical shop.

The chance that a "pirate" would try to repeatedly load and copy from Google's scans is highly unlikely since the chance that they'll get the pages they need on each reload would be pretty low. It would be much easier for them to scan it themselves or find an already availble version on some file sharing sources.

I've imported the ISBN's of most of my books (mostly older Sci-fi) and find it a nice tool to have an online catalog of the books I own. From the 73 books only 2 have previews (limited) available and none have a full search facility.

07-01-2009, 02:46 PM	#28
Crusader Space Cadet Posts: 1,180 Karma: 4030536 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South Africa Device: Sony PRS-T1, Cybook Opus, Kobo Glo	I doubt Google book search would be detrimental to sales by authors. In fact I've found it very useful to see if a particular book would be something I like since it's very rare that I can actually visit a physical shop. The chance that a "pirate" would try to repeatedly load and copy from Google's scans is highly unlikely since the chance that they'll get the pages they need on each reload would be pretty low. It would be much easier for them to scan it themselves or find an already availble version on some file sharing sources. I've imported the ISBN's of most of my books (mostly older Sci-fi) and find it a nice tool to have an online catalog of the books I own. From the 73 books only 2 have previews (limited) available and none have a full search facility.