Klarinet Archive - Posting 000323.txt from 2005/08

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] google print
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:37:01 -0400

To play devil's advocate, that may be the case with some fiction, but for
technical books, it is not necessarily the case.

The nature of technical books is that you look at sections of a book as you
need it. In the Google Print case, you can search for a section that may be
in a book and then not have to buy anything. Makes for pretty cheap and
easy research. Before, people would either purchase books or they would go
to libraries that have purchased books. Putting these books at folks
fingertips for free only makes copying them easier.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Fifth Circle Audio
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.fifthcircle.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Morrow
> Subject: [kl] google print
>
> Actually, putting on my "Writer Hat" (I just finished a
> two-year stint as president of the Maryland Writers'
> Association), you probably WANT your book coming up on Google
> Print. Despite early fears that having books available to
> print off the internet would result in fewer sales for
> authors, it actually turns out that readers are more likely
> to go out and buy the book after reading parts of it online!
> -Scott Morrow
>

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