Scholars aren’t the only ones worried about Google Books’ expansion. Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo are teaming up with groups opposing Google’s proposed agreement with book authors and publishers, which is still awaiting court approval, The New York Times reports.
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2 Responses to Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo Join Battle Against Google Books Proposal
greenhills73 - August 21, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I’m sure there are perfectly good reasons to read books online, but none that are good for me. As it is I have a lot of pain in my upper back from sitting at a computer too many hours a day. And nothing beats curling up in a recliner on a dreary winter Saturday and reading an actual book…or taking my lunch break in my car with magazines and books, the radio and an alarm clock.
tee_bee - August 21, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I would love to have textbooks in some e-readable form, so that when I teach I can open up my laptop and read and prepare and all that. Not for pleasure reading, though. Still, for amazon, of all companies (and MSFT too) to complain about anyone else’s practices seems just absurd. “We don’t want you doing your non=standard books, because we want to ram our nonstandard and user-unfriendly [useless] standards down your throat.” We have an e-book standard. It’s PDF. Let’s get over this nonsense and just do this job.