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Publishing a book now a day is not delicious as it used to be, and the digitizing of books is the more popular trend.  The problem of digitizing books is that it can be pirated.  Then again, by digitizing books, it’s easier for search engines to crawl, and people can search for the books that they want easier.  Google is set out to digitize as many books as it can, but other books related organizations are against this.  Google intends to digitize enough books and allow everyone to have free access to its archive.  Last year Google had settled an agreement with book publishers, and will provide compensation for authors and publishers; this allows Google’s digitizing book project to move forward.

This year, Amazon and Yahoo and Microsoft, the three and couple other organizations are challenging Google on this very matter.  They think it’s an antitrust matter.  They also think it’s a privacy matter.  For whatever purposes that these organizations have in mind, it’s obvious that Amazon and Yahoo and Microsoft want to stop Google’s book invasion.  At the very least they want to bring forward some merit arguments to eventually have the court changes some of the terms that Google has dealt with other publishers, and in this way the whole thing will be favorable for the three.  With a glance, Amazon has Kindle, Yahoo is a media company, and Microsoft has touched on anything that could slow down the Google machine.

If Google wins, nothing will change, and you will have free access to Google’s books archive.  If Google loses, the book project may be less desirable for everyday people to use.  If you are just a normal person who want to have more access to books for free, then you probably are praying for Google to win, but if you are a book publisher or an author, you probably are praying for the others.  The thing is if we keep on making publishing books as more undesirable than it’s now, then there will be less authors around to publish books.  Then again, if you are looking at the positive aspect of this whole thing, we can safely assume that only the passionate writers are willing to publish good books in undesirable book market.  What are you in for?

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