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> But Google then takes the digitised books and utilises that content for profit (every time you click buy, Google gets a cut of the sale) Google doesn't use t

by Oletros 11y ago

> But Google then takes the digitised books and utilises that content for profit (every time you click buy, Google gets a cut of the sale) Google doesn't use the books scanned for profit. If they sell a book is because they already have it in Google Books, is not one of the scanned

Someone1234 11y ago
They do definitely profit. They either gain referral fees, or they refer to themselves (Play Store) and thus get effectively free advertising (that would cost them money otherwise). When you click a link to Amazon for a specific book from a third party website, Amazon pays that website money for that referral. It is no different here except that one Google department sometimes sends it to another Google department.
- Oletros 11y ago
  > Fiction: Google is paid by booksellers like Amazon to include links on Google Books pages. > Fact: We provide links to booksellers on Google Books pages because we want to make it easier for users to buy books and for publishers to sell them. Booksellers don't pay to have their links included in Google Books, and Google doesn't receive any money if you buy a book from one of these retailers. http://www.google.es/googlebooks/perspectives/facts.html http://www.google.es/googlebooks/perspectives/facts.html
  - Someone1234 11y ago
    Except Google links to their own store in the US (Play Store) which they definitely do profit from directly. Click the "Buy Book" link here: https://books.google.com/books/about/Harry_Potter_and_the_Sorcerer_s_Stone.html?id=wrOQLV6xB-wC https://books.google.com/books/about/Harry_Potter_and_the_So... Unless Google are claiming they make no cut from Play Store book sales, which is laughable.
    - Oletros 11y ago
      And, as I said, they are not profiting of the scanned book because they own the rights to sell the vook in their store. Unless you're trying to ay that Google can only link to stores that are not their own, which is laughable
- dragonwriter 11y ago
  > When you click a link to Amazon for a specific book from a third party website, Amazon pays that website money for that referral. Only if the third-party website has signed up for the Amazon Associates program -- which must be disclosed on the site.

by Oletros 11y ago

Someone1234 11y ago

They do definitely profit. They either gain referral fees, or they refer to themselves (Play Store) and thus get effectively free advertising (that would cost them money otherwise). When you click a link to Amazon for a specific book from a third party website, Amazon pays that website money for that referral. It is no different here except that one Google department sometimes sends it to another Google department.

Oletros 11y ago
> Fiction: Google is paid by booksellers like Amazon to include links on Google Books pages. > Fact: We provide links to booksellers on Google Books pages because we want to make it easier for users to buy books and for publishers to sell them. Booksellers don't pay to have their links included in Google Books, and Google doesn't receive any money if you buy a book from one of these retailers. http://www.google.es/googlebooks/perspectives/facts.html http://www.google.es/googlebooks/perspectives/facts.html
- Someone1234 11y ago
  Except Google links to their own store in the US (Play Store) which they definitely do profit from directly. Click the "Buy Book" link here: https://books.google.com/books/about/Harry_Potter_and_the_Sorcerer_s_Stone.html?id=wrOQLV6xB-wC https://books.google.com/books/about/Harry_Potter_and_the_So... Unless Google are claiming they make no cut from Play Store book sales, which is laughable.
  - Oletros 11y ago
    And, as I said, they are not profiting of the scanned book because they own the rights to sell the vook in their store. Unless you're trying to ay that Google can only link to stores that are not their own, which is laughable
dragonwriter 11y ago
> When you click a link to Amazon for a specific book from a third party website, Amazon pays that website money for that referral. Only if the third-party website has signed up for the Amazon Associates program -- which must be disclosed on the site.