Google Book Search deal postponed
Google’s plans to sign a deal with book copyright holders, in order to digitise books for browsing and purchase online, has been postponed after the US law system raised objections to it.
The idea of the project is to make the hundreds of thousands of books covered by the deal available to users online, with sale proceeds being split between the publishers, authors and Google themselves. Companies such as Microsoft and Amazon have opposed the move, worried that Google may achieve a monopoly on e-book sales and have an unfair advantage across the world from the deal, even though it supposedly only applies in the USA.
While the problems have yet to find solutions, Google is mobilising its supporters in action in the hope it may swing the legal case in it’s favour. Sony is among these allies, as the company is one of the major providers of e-book reading devices. However Google try though, it may not pay off – lawmakers are starting to view Google in the same manner as Microsoft and have begun to keep close tabs on everything the company tries to do.
Whatever the outcome, consumers should benefit from future projects like this one by having greater access to a wider library of publications available at lower prices.
Google’s moves in the book market include the recent acquisition of the company ReCaptcha, a service to eliminate spam by recognising a human submitter from an automated program. It performs this task by presenting difficult-to-read words and asking for the user to type in what it says. The words come from books where the OCR software could not recognise the word, nicely dovetailing with their efforts to scan as many books as possible.
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