[Chapter-delegates] Google Books (was WiFi in Repote Areas)

[Joly MacFie]

My apologies for not forking the thread. I have changed the subject.

Thanks for the links Gary, I'll look to read up.

I did cover a related event some time back in which the American Society of
Journalists and Authors (ASJA) , the National Writers Union (NWU), and the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) all opposed the
Authors Guild position.
http://punkcast.com/1704/

So there is not even consensus there.

j



On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Gary W Kenward <garykenward at eastlink.ca>wrote:

> Some references:
>
> Harvard librarian Robert Darnton apparently initiated the backlash in 2009
> with his New York Review of Books article "Google & the Future of Books<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/feb/12/google-the-future-of-books/>
> ".
>
> Pamela Samuelson (Professor of Law at the University of California,
> Berkeley) also published an article in 2009 on Huffington Post, "Google
> Books is Not a Library<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/google-books-is-not-a-lib_b_317518.html>"
> (there are a series of articles on Huffington Post concerning the Google
> Books saga from Prof. Samuelson on the Huffington Post site).
>
> Darnton wrote a summary of the struggle around Google Books in his 2011
> article Google’s Loss: The Public’s Gain<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/apr/28/googles-loss-publics-gain/>.
> The turn point for many was the issue of "fair use" being determined by a
> sole commercial entity, namely Google.
>
> Darnton went on to foster the creation of the Digital Public Library of
> America <http://dp.la/>, launched April 18th of this year. So, for the
> moment, the American public is ahead.
>
> I also found one book on the Google Books saga. I haven't read it, but the
> on-line reviews appear good.
>
> "The Battle for the Books: Inside Google’s Gambit to Create the World’s
> Biggest Library", by Jeff John Roberts. It's vailable on Amazon, Barnes &
> Noble and Apple. The Amazon price is currently $2.90.
>
> Cheers,
> Gary
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> On 2013.06.16, at 8:13 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Gary W Kenward <garykenward at eastlink.ca>wrote:
>
>> The only groups of people who have expressed a concern over Google's
>> growing acquisition of information, as far as I know, are the various
>> library associations around the world
>
>
>
> Source? I had thought libraries quite keen on the book scanning project.
> Any resistance has been from publishers and authors.
>
> j
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> j
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