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« Fired blogger fires back || Back to Blog | Web of Ideas: Does participatory culture lead to participatory democracy? » March 18, 2007
My book Small Pieces Loosely Joined is now a part of Google Books. Because the publisher owns the copyright, you can only see a few pages of it, but I think it's very cool — you can search for a term and read the pages it's on, for example — and I wish more of it were on line. In fact, given that it has virtually stopped selling, I wish all of it were on line. That doesn't quite align with the publisher's interests, but someone's going to figure out a way to make this work. What a boon! For example, for $100 a year, I'd subscribe to Google Books as a research tool, with some reasonable restrictions (no massive print outs? relatively few complete book read-throughs?) and let Google divvy up the royalties. Or you can come up with a better idea. Please! [Tags: google books libraries copyright publishing] Posted
by D. Weinberger at March 18, 2007 04:38 PM
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Are you sure the publisher owns the Copyright, and not just the subsidary rights, such as
'fully sub-licensable, fully paid-up and royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and create derivative works'
which of course still means that you have copyright as the author, but any thing that can make a dime is firmly in your publishers hands.
Posted by: alan herrell - the head lemur | March 19, 2007 03:13 PM
Hey I just bought that book last Friday! I love your blog and look forward to diving into the book.
Posted by: SamW | March 19, 2007 05:03 PM
Then google would be just like any other e-book publisher.
If you are really willing to depart from your money there are lots of ebook publishers and agregators around, and with better end-user experiences than google. I've read "Ambient Findability" in one of them, without "furniture adds" in the footer of the interface.
Posted by: Julio Anjos | March 25, 2007 05:12 PM