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to some writers, google print sounds like a sweet deal Post date  10.25.2005, 9:25 AM

Wired has a piece today about authors who are in favor of Google's plans to digitize millions of books and make them searchable online. Most seem to agree that obscurity is a writer's greatest enemy, and that the exposure afforded by Google's program far outweighs any intellectual property concerns. Sometimes to get more you have to give a little.

The article also mentions the institute.

Posted by ben vershbow at October 25, 2005 09:25 AM
tags: Libraries, Search and the Web, Publishing, Broadcast, and the Press, books, copyright, google, google_print, publishing, search, web, writing

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