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I’m fairly confident that google books is a huge money loser for google. The only reason it’s still online is because there are people within google willing to

I’m fairly confident that google books is a huge money loser for google. The only reason it’s still online is because there are people within google willing to stick their necks out to spend the money on it.

BlueTemplar 7y ago
Indeed, but for how long, considering the Google Books team itself seemingly wants to delete the ~100M books database ? P.S.: Might be soon, considering that it was basically what Google was initially about, and one of the founders just resigned from Alphabet...
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  Source on the deletion initiative?
  - BlueTemplar 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694061
    - dredmorbius 7y ago
      Thanks, though I was hoping for better than an HN comment...