Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Google Books

Followed LibraryThings with an incursion into Google Books.  Clicked on some of the subjects and found some very strange titles within them such as Medical - Prince and the Pauper, Curious George learns the Alphabet and Religion - Taming of the shrew. Can understand the usefulness (and cost savings)  for Libraries when non-copyright material is scanned and made available and the contributing library receives a digitized copy.  It will be interesting to view Google Books in a couple of years time when the court cases are (possibly) settled and the commercial matters come into play. If Google win the right to sell copyright books will they then move into Chapters and compete with Libraries in the document delivery area.  I also created my own Book Shelf List and now I have so many sites and logins and Passwords I think my head will start spinning soon!

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