Friday, October 23, 2009

Objecting to GBS/AAP/AG Settlement

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ALA Washington Office has posted an analysis of who filed comments/briefs to the court relating to the Google/AAP/AG settlement. Of the ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

OCLC and "Competition"

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The announcement of a new company, SkyRiver , providing cataloging services to libraries has sparked a number of comments about competing wi...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

DOJ drops bomb in Google/AAP settlement

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On Friday, September 17, 2009 the Department of Justice delivered its long-awaited Statement of Interest in the proposed settlement between...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Google Books Metadata and Library Functions

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In a recent post in the NGC4LIB list, we got a very welcome answer from Chip Nilges of OCLC about Google's use of WorldCat records: To a...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

GBS, according to Amazon

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When I first read the settlement agreement between Google, the AAP and the Author's Guild, I immediately thought: "Wow. Jeff Bezos ...
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Monday, September 07, 2009

GBS and Bad Metadata

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Ever since Geoffrey Nunberg got up at the Google Books Colloquium at Berkeley on August 28, 2009, and showed the audience how bad the Google...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Googlebooks: Innovation and the Future of the Book

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There's a standard joke about a restaurant-goer who complains afterward: "The food was terrible... and there was so little of it!...
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