If you're at all interested in how Google Books is about to change in
response to the new settlement reached between Google and
authors/publishers, you should read Arnold Arcolio's (of RLG)
insightful summary and analysis posted on the Hanging Together blog
(http://hangingtogether.org/?p=541).
No stone seems left unturned. A personal favorite: (under a
subsection entitled, "Preview Use" in a section on "Display Uses")
In response to a user's search, Google may allow the user to view up
to 20% of a Book (no more than five adjacent pages) before making a
purchase decision, but not to copy/paste, annotate or print any pages
from the Book ("Standard Preview"). For Books of fiction, Google will
block the last 5% of the Book (or a minimum of the final fifteen
pages of the Book)...
Don't want to give away those endings ; )
Diane
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