http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-almost-beta-9417 hourly 1 http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-1031 Some thing’s you just can’t Google for answers « The Tech Diva Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:45:44 +0000 http://www.opencontentalliance.org/?p=546#comment-1031 [...] So let’s look at this from another side today, the side of the librarian and of the e-book consumer.  Economist article Tome Raiders, Google is claiming that “rather than suppressing competition in the emerging market for electronic books, the agreement would increase it by offering a web-based alternative to expensive proprietary systems such as Amazon’s Kindle.”   In essence, Google is aiming to put Amazon or Microsoft out of business, but inadvertently also aiming to build the world’s biggest online library.  This second aim could be the more detrimental outcome of this settlement.  After all, isn’t the whole point of a library is that it’s free to the public.  Libraries are pretty much one of the first open source institutions our culture has had.  Part of the reason why this is getting no play in terms of news action is that the Open Content Alliance is much smaller than the other big boxes and self proclaimed  Authors Guild.  And actually, the OCA is not all too thrilled with the Authors Guild these days. [...] [...] So let’s look at this from another side today, the side of the librarian and of the e-book consumer.  Economist article Tome Raiders, Google is claiming that “rather than suppressing competition in the emerging market for electronic books, the agreement would increase it by offering a web-based alternative to expensive proprietary systems such as Amazon’s Kindle.”   In essence, Google is aiming to put Amazon or Microsoft out of business, but inadvertently also aiming to build the world’s biggest online library.  This second aim could be the more detrimental outcome of this settlement.  After all, isn’t the whole point of a library is that it’s free to the public.  Libraries are pretty much one of the first open source institutions our culture has had.  Part of the reason why this is getting no play in terms of news action is that the Open Content Alliance is much smaller than the other big boxes and self proclaimed  Authors Guild.  And actually, the OCA is not all too thrilled with the Authors Guild these days. [...]

]]> http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 crazyburns Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:50:01 +0000 http://www.opencontentalliance.org/?p=546#comment-1015 How is this a monopoly? Everywhere I've read says that this is a non-exclusive deal, yet you say it is exclusive. I see nothing that prevents another company from coming in an competing. And one of the biggest leaders in the fight against Google is Amazon, who currently have one of the largest eBook markets out there. Google is wanting to use an open format, whereas Amazon locks you into using their eBook reader and their proprietary format (and then deleting books you purchased off of your device without your consent). How is this a monopoly? Everywhere I’ve read says that this is a non-exclusive deal, yet you say it is exclusive. I see nothing that prevents another company from coming in an competing. And one of the biggest leaders in the fight against Google is Amazon, who currently have one of the largest eBook markets out there. Google is wanting to use an open format, whereas Amazon locks you into using their eBook reader and their proprietary format (and then deleting books you purchased off of your device without your consent).

]]> http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-997 Andrés Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:00:11 +0000 http://www.opencontentalliance.org/?p=546#comment-997 Google books monopoly?.. that's not the real problem... the problem is .... you hate competence ;) Google books monopoly?.. that’s not the real problem… the problem is …. you hate competence

]]> http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-942 Google Books: ¿una biblioteca digital al margen de la ley? « Quintus Innova Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:41:29 +0000 http://www.opencontentalliance.org/?p=546#comment-942 [...] Questions for Google Books Monopoly, por Open Content Alliance (The Internet Archive, etc) [...] [...] Questions for Google Books Monopoly, por Open Content Alliance (The Internet Archive, etc) [...]

]]> http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-897 ResourceShelf » Blog Archive » Open Content Alliance: Questions for the Google Books Monopoly Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:55:17 +0000 http://www.opencontentalliance.org/?p=546#comment-897 [...] Brantley from the OCA Writes: At the Internet Archive, we encourage people to listen to what Google Books has to say with a [...] [...] Brantley from the OCA Writes: At the Internet Archive, we encourage people to listen to what Google Books has to say with a [...]

]]> http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-895 Minerva Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:08:09 +0000 http://www.opencontentalliance.org/?p=546#comment-895 Do you know where and when these talks were held? I can't seem to find any information about it. Do you know where and when these talks were held? I can’t seem to find any information about it.

]]> http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-894 Google Book Settlement Link Dump Awesomeness at pureinformation.org Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:19:06 +0000 http://www.opencontentalliance.org/?p=546#comment-894 [...] Open Content Alliance: Questions for the Google books monopoly [...] [...] Open Content Alliance: Questions for the Google books monopoly [...]

]]> http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-893 Glyn Moody (glynmoody) 's status on Friday, 31-Jul-09 11:59:35 UTC - Identi.ca Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:59:39 +0000 http://www.opencontentalliance.org/?p=546#comment-893 [...] http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/ [...] [...] http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/07/30/questions-for-the-google-books-monopoly/ [...]

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