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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Or, one can say that Google wants a stranglehold on digitized information, wants to generate new legislation from a class-action lawsuit, and plans to offer rights-holders a non-negotiable pittance for their work.
Let's face it, Google is not a charity and they are not doing this out of the Pure Shiny Goodness of their hearts. They're just as much a business as any other company.
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One could... assuming said pittance is smaller than the pittance rights-holders generally receive.
If it isn't though... one cannot help but wonder why authors aren't gleeful that their often utterly insignificant little books will get a wider audience and their tiny paycheques are likely to grow (by however small an amount).
Like I said: I hope both Google and Microsoft fails. What they are trying to do is a job for the Government.
But, at the same time, I am yet to see anything that suggests Google would give any worse a deal to anyone than they generally get from their publishers.
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