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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Digitizing Books

Digitizing books is a good and a bad thing. It is bad because Google didn’t get the permission of author to copy their books, and put tem ion then internet. Well the good side of that is that you do not have to go to the library to get a book you can just pull it up on the internet. They already have 12 million books and their goal is 40 million. I didn’t even know there were that many books here on earth in the first place. I think I will be one of the people who do use this method of reading books.
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3 comments:

  1. MiSS J'NiECE!February 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM

    I agree with you because if I was an author I would be upset,but luckily im not! because I can get free books without coming out of my pockets:).

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  2. NguyenFebruary 18, 2010 at 10:23 AM

    Nice. I love the way you said it's more beneficial to research books online too. I don't know whether it will upset the author if Google doesn't ger permission from them, but I think we should do that just in case for security.

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  3. Ms.GeurtzFebruary 19, 2010 at 8:52 AM

    just to get the facts straight: Google did get exclusive agreements with at least 3 libraries to digitize their holdings. In the news piece one of the lobbyists talked about the "underhanded" way Google got those agreements - sounded like sour grapes to me since Microsoft and Amazon weren't able to get those agreements
    btw: additional link?

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