Something from the New Yorker about Google Book Search

["B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>]

Grafton, Anthony. Google Books and the Judge. September 18, 2009.

Some excerpts:

"...bizarrely, Google sorts books, as Geoffrey Nunberg and others 
have shown, not by the Library of Congress Classification, but 
by the Book Industry Standards and Communications used by 
publishers to tell booksellers where to stow a given item."

And...

"...it's utopian to believe that the company could or would 
repair the millions of errors already built into the system -- or 
that new problems won't continue to crop up, as Google vacuums up 
more millions of books without finding out in advance what book 
professionals know about how best to identify and organize them."

Full text at:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/09/google-books-and-the-judge.html

Bernie Sloan