Re: Your Lawsuit is Not Helping Me or My Book

["David P. Dillard" <jwne@temple.edu>]

Reading this post is most heartening to me.  I have been shocked by the
reactions of some in the publishing industry and by some authors by the
lack of realization of the benefits which outweigh hugely any "harm" that
may come by full text indexing of books are bringing in that people,
through Google Print searches and searches in competitive book content
indexing projects from Google Print competitors, will serve to cause
people to need books they would never have realized contain important
information about topics which they are researching or learning about
without these searches.  While some will use libraries to view this
content, others will purchase the books to find additional content or to
have the information handy as needed over the long haul for their research
project by owning their own copy of the book.  Gary Price in a recent
excellent post to the DIG_REF list noted that Google Print is not the only
provider of this service.

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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@temple.edu>
Date: Tue Oct 18, 2005  2:06 pm
Subject: INTERNET: SEARCH : BOOKS: ELECTRONIC: RESOURCES: Gary Price's
Take on the USA Today Article About Google Print
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/8890>

A post of mine late last year cites a quotation that I provided for an
article in American Libraries in 1999.  That quotation speaks to the value
of a full text book aggregation database as a tool for finding totally
unexpected minutiae buried in books whose overall content may be on a very
different wave length entirely.

Date:         Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:55:37 -0500
From:         "David P. Dillard" <jwne@temple.edu>
Subject:      Re: [BUSLIB-L] NYTimes.com Article: Google Is Adding Major
              Libraries to Its Database
<http://snipurl.com/grzg>

Indeed, in the spreading of awareness of published books for their
specific content, those who publish bibliographies or include them in
articles and books may now use Google Print to find citations to specific
content in books that is relevant to the bibliography they are publishing
or posting on the web and hence make all users of that bibliography
potential customers for the cited book as a result of the use of Google
Print or its competitors.  Find out, however, in the American Libraries
article, the role of jelly beans in this picture.

Sincerely,
David Dillard
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On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Hamaker, Chuck wrote:

> From Kottke.org

> Subject: your lawsuit is not helping me or my book
> http://www.kottke.org/05/10/google-print-lawsuit

> Quote from  Meghann Marco a Simon & Schuster author.

> "...not that many people know about my book and this might help them
> find out about it. I fail to see what the harm is in Google indexing a
> book and helping people find it. Anyone can read my book for free by
> going to the library anyway.

> In case you guys haven't noticed, books don't have marketing like TV and
> Movies do. There are no commercials for books, this website isn't
> produced by my publisher. Books are driven by word of mouth. A book that
> doesn't get good word of mouth will fail and go out of print.

> Personally, I hope that won't happen to my book, but there is a chance
> that it will. I think the majority of authors would benefit from
> something like Google Print."

> Chuck Hamaker
> Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
> Atkins Library
> University of North Carolina Charlotte
> Charlotte, NC 28223