Study suggests Google Book Search Helps Publishers A Lot More Than It Hurts Them

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

Interesting paper from the Journal of the Copyright Society of 
the USA. It's authored by Hannibal Travis of the Florida 
International University College of Law.

>From the abstract:

"Originally advanced by publishing industry lobbying groups, the 
prevailing account of mass book-digitization projects is that 
they will devastate authors and publishers, just as Napster and 
its heirs have supposedly devastated musicians and music labels. 
Using the impact of GBS on the revenues and operating incomes of 
U.S. publishers believing themselves to be the most-affected by 
it, this Article finds no evidence of a negative impact upon 
them. To the contrary, it provides some evidence of a positive 
impact, and proposes further empirical research to identify the 
mechanisms of digitization's economic impact."

Here's the abstract: http://bit.ly/bNNeLj

You can get the full paper by clicking on a link in the abstract.

Bernie Sloan