[Web4lib] How Good (or Not Evil) Is Google? -NY Times article

[B.G. Sloan]

Interesting David Carr article in the NY Times about Google and its book scanning.

Carr makes the observation that "Google is, broadly, the Wal-Mart of the Internet, a huge force that can set terms and price — in this case free — except Google is not selling hammers and CDs, it is operating at the vanguard of intellectual property."

He also quotes Google CEO Eric Schmidt as saying "What I think is great about books is that people just don’t go to libraries that much, but they are in front of the computer all day." 

Full text at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/business/media/22carr.html

Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates