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Re: Is Google Print Real?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jessica Callender)
Mon Oct 17 20:25:01 2005
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:28:05 -0400
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From: Jessica Callender <jessicacallender@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Has anyone actually seen a listing from Google Print?
I sent two books over 6 months ago to be uploaded to it. They haven't been
uploaded.
I've never seen a book come up from Google Print. How do you see their
listings?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hart" <hart@PGLAF.ORG>
To: <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:54 AM
Subject: Is Google Print Real?
> Is Google Print Real?
>
>
> Today is the six month anniversary of the huge multi-million dollar
> media blitz announcing Google Print, the most important event since
> Gutenberg's invention of the printing press.
>
> To commemorate this event I have been interviewing people from wide
> ranges of the Internet about their Google Print experiences, but it
> seems to be harder than either I or they expected.
>
> Several problems are being reported, both in terms of the usage for
> the user and some apparent changes of horses in midstream, in terms
> of the actual purpose of Google Print.
>
> One of the MAJOR CHANGES in Google Print seems to be that they have
> decided they're NOT GOING TO PROMOTE READING of those 10-15 million
> books they mentioned in their worldwide press releases. Instead it
> seems their first recommendation is going to be to click on some of
> the online bookstores they are promoting, and secondly they send us
> off to search in libraries.
>
>
> From: Google Print Help
>
> "Google Print helps you discover books, not read them online."
>
> "To read the whole book, we encourage you to use the
> `Buy this book' link to purchase it online. . . ."
>
> http://print.google.com/googleprint/help.html
>
> [These comments are neatly buried in the very middle of the
> help section, just about exactly half way through. #5 & #7]
>
>
> Six months ago, we all heard that Google was going to revolutionize
> the entire concept of libraries with their new project at a rate of
> of 10,000 to 15,000 books per week which would yield over a quarter
> of a million books in their first 26 weeks at the lower rate, and a
> figure nearer half a million at the higher rate, even presuming the
> total was zero on December 14th.
>
> However, now it appears that Google has changed horses in midstream
> and replaced much of the actual "library" qualities of Google Print
> with "catalog" properties. . .they are now actually saying in their
> offical publications to "discover books, not read them online."
