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Courts are always mindful of public policy while making rulings. So, benefiting public has been a valid reason for a long time. And I think it's a good reason.
by x3c 13y ago
Courts are always mindful of public policy while making rulings. So, benefiting public has been a valid reason for a long time. And I think it's a good reason.
Now does this really benefit people or not is another question. I think it does. Do you think it does not?
- jrs99 13y agoi don't think it benefits authors. I think searching for a book and reading a few pages and being done with it. That isn't ideal for authors at all. Some people just need to read a few things in the book.
- warfangle 13y agoOh, man, I hope you don't find out about this terrible place called a library where people do that kind of stuff all the time.
- cmiles74 13y agoOr the bookstore.
- jrs99 13y agobut libraries pay for their books. And a library might buy many copies of a popular book.
- warfangle 13y agoAnd they lend them out. Which is considered fair use. Just like full-text search, now. As was said by a sibling comment to yours, people do this all the time in bookstores too. Corollary: Google shows a snippet of text from a website under their link. If what I wanted to find out is contained in that snippet, I won't necessarily click the link. Same thing, but instead of a pointer to a website (which, in this example, just lost a pageview), it's a pointer to an book that you can purchase. More funnels to conversion mean more books purchased.
- jrs99 13y agoyou can loan a book out to one person at a time. i think it's a little different.
- jrs99 13y agonot every author wants to increase sales. I would rather opt out even if that led to a decrease in sales. I can't make someone else increase sales by making them use my new sales platform for free.