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  • Indeed, the explosive rise of the Web, going from nothing to everything in one decade, has encouraged us to believe in the impossible again. Might the long-heralded great library of all knowledge really be within our grasp?
    • Mike Sanders
      Mike Sanders on 31 Mar 10
       
      Using the internet, Google hopes to make a huge library with much knowledge available.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 31 Mar 10
       
      Guys you have to redirect these comments to the Discussion Group.
  • The idea is to seed the bookless developing world with easily available texts.
    • Mike Sanders
      Mike Sanders on 31 Mar 10
       
      Books would be rendered essential useless, as everything one would ever need to look up or know would be available online.
    • Gina Di Vito
      Gina Di Vito on 31 Mar 10
       
      This is why I think libraries and books are becoming more useless to the people of this world every day.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 31 Mar 10
       
      Guys you have to redirect these comments to the Discussion Group.
  • When books are digitized, reading becomes a community activity. Bookmarks can be shared with fellow readers. Marginalia can be broadcast. Bibliographies swapped. You might get an alert that your friend Carl has annotated a favorite book of yours.
    • Mike Sanders
      Mike Sanders on 31 Mar 10
       
      Knowledge about the books would now be available to everyone. People could communicate and notify one another about the books.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 31 Mar 10
       
      Guys you have to redirect these comments to the Discussion Group.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • There are dozens of excellent reasons that books should quickly be made part of the emerging Web. But so far they have not been, at least not in great numbers. And there is only one reason: the hegemony of the copy.
  • A luckier 10 percent are still in print.
    • Mike Sanders
      Mike Sanders on 31 Mar 10
       
      Only 10% of remaining books are still being printed. The compaines who publish the books do not find it profitable anymore to bother physically publishing.
    • eazy ez
      eazy ez on 31 Mar 10
       
      Yeah thats true. Its amazing that only 10% are only being printed know, it still seems like there are alot! I couldnt imagine when everything was being printed.
  • Two points outraged them: the virtual copy of the book that sat on Google's indexing server and Google's assumption that it could scan first and ask questions later. On both counts the authors and publishers accused Google of blatant copyright infringement.
    • Mike Sanders
      Mike Sanders on 31 Mar 10
       
      Many people believed that Google was committing copyright infringement. With the internet now though, many movies, TV shows and other things are available for download. Copyright infringement has almost become a thing of the past.
  • The Chinese scanning factories, which operate under their own, looser intellectual-property assumptions, will keep churning out digital books. And as scanning technology becomes faster, better and cheaper, fans may do what they did to music and simply digitize their own libraries.
    • Mike Sanders
      Mike Sanders on 31 Mar 10
       
      Scanning technology will continue to get faster, and any legal lawsuit against Google might not be resolved before all books and anything in print are scanned to the internet.
  • In the clash between the conventions of the book and the protocols of the screen, the screen will prevail. On this screen, now visible to one billion people on earth, the technology of search will transform isolated books into the universal library of all human knowledge.
    • Mike Sanders
      Mike Sanders on 31 Mar 10
       
      The strength and rapid, constant growth of the internet will be too much in the end for anyone to fight to keep books around. All printed items will end up on the internet sooner or later.
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