Re: [Web4lib] prove that library 2.0 isn´t usele ss

[Brian Gray]

They are recovering costs now with online ad placements. Also, just
think if the marketing value if Google one day could announce "we own
the digital content of ALL books".

I do not think you will see a subscriber model, unless copyright law
is changed for this new online approach of complete digitization AND
access to materials. I suspect we may see ads placed throughout a
digitized at sometime in the future, before a full subscriber model
occurs.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com

On 11/4/07, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> But in the commercial world, where Google operates, an investment
> is a debt, something you will one day be required to pay back and
> with an interest.  If you can manage a project with less funding,
> you're all the merrier, because the sooner and easier will you be
> able to reach break-even and return a profit.  It is indeed
> worrisome that Google makes such large investments in book
> scanning.  How on earth are they going to recover those costs?
> By closing down the entire thing to paying subscribers?