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Any book that's worth reading will be scanned, run through OCR, and distributed for free. Google IS the catalogue. End of story.
by Raphael 18y ago
Any book that's worth reading will be scanned, run through OCR, and distributed for free. Google IS the catalogue. End of story.
- taw 18y agoNo it won't. You see all music/movies on p2p sites, because it is so unbelievably easy to share your music/movies even against wishes of copyright holders. For everything else - books, software, academic papers etc. - you only see the popular ones, not the long tail, and the long tail is where the real value is.
- bootload 18y ago"... Any book that's worth reading will be scanned, run through OCR, and distributed for free. Google IS the catalogue. End of story. ..." You are right, replacing one monopoly with another is one way to end the story. What is wrong with an open alternative?
- Raphael 18y agoNothing wrong. The problem is that there's no such thing as a book any more. It's all just text. Any search engine will do.