RE: Your Lawsuit is Not Helping Me or My Book

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

David Dillard said:
 
"Gary Price in a recent excellent post to the DIG_REF list noted that
Google Print is not the only provider of this service. "
 
But isn't Google Print Library the only provider that does opt-out, rather
than opt-in?
 
Bernie Sloan

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From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of David P. Dillard
Sent: Thu 10/27/2005 5:20 PM
To: LIBLICENCE DISCUSSION GROUP
Subject: Re: Your Lawsuit is Not Helping Me or My Book

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.