B.G. Sloan wrote:
> Jonathan Rochkind asks: "Wonder if this will lead to more books being available in full text and/or snippets/search on GBS? "
>
> The New York Times notes:
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> "Google will now be able to fade out the 'snippet view' in Google Book Search, which only showed very small amounts of text from a given book. Instead, most books will now allow readers to preview 20% of the book."
>
Interesting. Wonder how that will effect the GBS APIs I'm already
using? One of the access levels they return is "snippet". Hopefully I
don't need to re-write everything. Although I already noticed that
_some_ things labelled "snippet" by GBS allowed the user to read large
swaths of the book, and other things didn't. So maybe everything will
remain the same, just all "snippets" (identified by the API) will allow
large swaths.
> And..."Libraries, universities, and other organizations will also be able to purchase an institutional subscription, which will give users the ability to access the full text of all the titles in the Google Books index. This, depending on the pricing, could turn out to be a revolutionary development for libraries."
>
Wow. Indeed. Depending on pricing is the key thing. Could be huge. And a
serious threat to the business of many of our existing "e-book" vendors.
They're not going to like this one.
Jonathan
> Bernie Sloan
> Sora Associates
> Bloomington, IN
>
>
> --- On Tue, 10/28/08, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_JHU.EDU> wrote:
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>> From: Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_JHU.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Authors, publishers, settle suit with Google
>> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 1:53 PM
>> Interesting. Wonder if this will lead to more books being
>> available in
>> full text and/or snippets/search on GBS? Or if they're
>> just no longer
>> being sued for the stuff they've already got up anyway.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> B.G. Sloan wrote:
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>>> "Google has reached a landmark agreement with
>>>
>> authors and publishers to make millions of books available
>> online, in a deal that includes a $125m (£80m) payout and
>> the end to lawsuits filed by companies including Penguin.
>> The agreement, part of which is subject to the approval of
>> the US District Court in New York, comes after two years of
>> negotiations between the parties and will mark the end of
>> two lawsuits against the Google Book Search tool."
>>
>>> Full article:
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>>>
>>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/28/googlethemedia-digitalmedia
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>>> Bernie Sloan
>>> Sora Associates
>>> Bloomington, IN
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Rochkind
>> Digital Services Software Engineer
>> The Sheridan Libraries
>> Johns Hopkins University
>> 410.516.8886
>> rochkind (at) jhu.edu
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--
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Received on Tue Oct 28 2008 - 13:52:36 EDT