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Book lovers seething over Amazon acquisition of Goodreads
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Their Twitter and Facebook accounts continue to fill up with outraged comments from fellow book lovers, who are joining best-selling writers and the Authors Guild in condemning last week's announcement that Amazon will take over San Francisco-based
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Amazons Goodreads purchase irks authors group
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Amazon's Goodreads purchase irks authors group Amazon.com Inc.'s acquisition of the social reading site Goodreads is drawing criticism from an authors group, which says the online retailer is gaining too much control in the publishing industry,
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Amazon purchase of Goodreads irks authors
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Amazon.com is gaining too much control in the publishing industry with its purchase of Goodreads, a social network for readers and a competitor in online book reviews, an authors' group says. Goodreads, which allows users to add titles to virtual
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Amazon acquires literary social media website Goodreads
Boston :: MA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Goodreads lets readers view recommendations from other users and comment on their favorite titles, and having the website may give Amazon more of an ability to reach readers and recommend books. In a statement on their website, Goodreads founder Otis
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Sundance film reads ‘false God' lesson in Google Books
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
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Google Books, the doomed project to build the world's biggest library online, provides a powerful lesson in the danger of blind faith in technology, according to British director Ben Lewis. Presenting his new film Google and the World Brain in
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Turnstyle: Sundance Review: 'Google and the World Brain'
Shanghai :: China | 4 months ago
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Google and the World Brain' Posted: 01/23/2013 7:27 pm Follow share this story There's a killer moment in Ben Lewis' fascinating documentary Google and the World Brain where the filmmakers, after traveling to the Monastery of Montserrat in Catalonia,
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Google, writers OK book digitization
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago
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The Google Books Library Project allows users to view excerpts of text containing search keywords, but Google and the Japan P.E.N. Club said they confirmed that such excerpts will be made inaccessible if requested by members of the club and
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Book Scanning As Fair Use: Google Makes Its Case As Authors Guild Appeals Hathitrust Fair Use Ruling
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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As you may recall, Judge Harold Baer's ruling discussed how the book scanning in that case was obviously fair use ...The appeal will cover a few different issues beyond just fair use, such as why the Authors Guild itself is even the plaintiff in the
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Court: Book Scanning Is Obviously Fair Use
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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I had a post all written up that I was going to publish today about how the settling of the Publishers lawsuit against Google over book scanning had one downside -- that we didn't get a full court ruling on the question of whether or not the book
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Google and publishers reach settlement on digitized books case
Boston :: MA :: USA | 8 months ago
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But the settlement leaves a key issue on the table and does little to resolve a higher-stakes suit against Google filed by individual authors.
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