One Google Books To Rule Them All?
PrintOne Google Books To Rule Them All? :
Good: A really thorough examination of copyright and books.
Bad: The _only_ mention of libraries is the DPLA project.
Ugly: The author perspective he gets is Ursula Le Guin, not exactly the most balanced of voices on this subject. Would love to have had a counterpoint to her POV in the the form of one of the usual suspects (Doctorow et al).
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The fact is that well over half the ebooks currently available can be read at no cost whatsoever and most of the rest are available at prices so low as to unlikely challenge any but the most destitute among us. And this raises some...
LSSI Vice President Steve Coffman, “The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire,” Searcher 20, no. 3 (Apr.).
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