[Web4lib] Google Print gets new name

[Richard Wiggins]

What's misleading is: what object are you retrieving?  If it's an out of
copyright or in some cases apparently out of print book, you get full
text.   If it's in-copyright, you apparently get a "snippet" and perhaps a
link to purchase the book.

Today, for this crowd, that is all understandable, parsable. For the
prototypical school girl in Carthage, Tennessee searching the Google Books
Search collection, is the book from 1899 in full text superior to the book
from 2005 in snippet?

/rich


On 11/23/05, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree that "Google Book Search" is likely to be shortened by real
> people
> > in everyday use, but it's hard to imagine a better alternative that's
> > reasonably concise, contains the target word "books" yet isn't grossly
> > misleading.
>
> What's misleading, grossly, or otherwise? It's Google, and them are
> books..?
>
> Karen G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
>
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