The unpacking of the Google Book Search settlement continues today.
Carolyn Kellogg at the LA Times focuses on the money issues. As she points out digital revenues, do not a career make. In the last paragraph she asks some open ended questions…
Will this kind of electronic book replace previous ebooks? …. or will they get digital [...]
Kassia Krozser over at Booksquare had a pretty balanced reaction to yesterday’s GBS settlement. In contrast, my two posts from yesterday were pretty half-baked so I would like to point to three questions I have about the whole thing.
For the record I am worried about the obsessive culture of ownership around intellectual property. When I [...]
Martyn Daniels, of the Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland, comments on the GBS settlement thusly:
Again we have long argued for a rights clearing house but not one that is tied to an act such as this. Some may say that the industry has opted for the easy route and one that means that [...]
Google has settled with the AAP. The news is all over. Both sides are claiming victory. Sergey Brin said, “While this agreement is a real win-win for all of us, the real victors are all the readers.” Google pays $125 million but let’s be serious, Google is the victor here. The onus is now on [...]
Google’s secondary search feature got some attention in the New York Times. In turn it bubbled up at Techcrunch.
When I first saw this feature, I thought no big deal. Google is trying to keep searchers within their ecosystem for longer. Consumers looking for sites with bad internal search will benefit. You can bypass Canadiantire.ca’s stupid [...]