Personally, I really like the Google books snippets. I often buy or check out books after reading the snippets from Google books. I don't think this limited preview is harmful to the authors, in my opinion.
Our copyright laws need some dang cleaning up, though, particularly since they haven't changed enough to keep up with changing technology.
I want authors to get paid for their work - I want them to get paid enough to live on and to keep producing books for me, and I don't like the idea of a large monopoly (because really, when has monopoly ever been good for competition?) controlling the publishing industry.
On One Google Books To Rule Them All?
This is a great article.
Personally, I really like the Google books snippets. I often buy or check out books after reading the snippets from Google books. I don't think this limited preview is harmful to the authors, in my opinion.
Our copyright laws need some dang cleaning up, though, particularly since they haven't changed enough to keep up with changing technology.
I want authors to get paid for their work - I want them to get paid enough to live on and to keep producing books for me, and I don't like the idea of a large monopoly (because really, when has monopoly ever been good for competition?) controlling the publishing industry.