Nic, Why should a private company be forced at gunpoint to provide a service to everyone? Aren't there voluntary, non-coercive ways to resolve this matter? Maybe you could make your own deal with book publishers and start your own book search engine.
---Sasan --- In [email protected], "Nicolas Leobold" <nleob...@...> wrote: > > http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/index.html > > > > Google wrote about the Google Book Search legal settlement: > > "In addition to the institutional subscriptions and the free public access > terminals, the agreement also creates opportunities for researchers to study > the millions of volumes in the Book Search index. Academics will be able to > apply through an institution to run computational queries through the index > without actually reading individual books." > > > > > > Allowing only academics with institutional credentials to conduct full > searches through the entire Google Books database denies equal access to > information and knowledge to ordinary consumers who would also often benefit > from complete searches. It is elitist and authoritarian and unjust. > Hopefully the court rules against this exclusionary provision and opens > complete search to all people. > > > > Nic Leobold > > nleob...@... > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
