Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Search and Rescue - New York Times: "
By TIM O'REILLY
Published: September 28, 2005
Sebastopol, Calif.
AUTHORS struggle, mostly in vain, against their fated obscurity. According to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks sales from major booksellers, only 2 percent of the 1.2 million unique titles sold in 2004 had sales of more than 5,000 copies. Against this backdrop, the recent Authors Guild suit against the Google Library Project is poignantly wrongheaded..."
Of course cataloging all books will generate that many more searches which = more ad revenue and book sales. Watch out Amazon! However, my guess is that Google also wants to catalog all books for the content/context they can provide; to improve their search algorithms... Also perhaps leveraging the libraries taxonomies?
By TIM O'REILLY
Published: September 28, 2005
Sebastopol, Calif.
AUTHORS struggle, mostly in vain, against their fated obscurity. According to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks sales from major booksellers, only 2 percent of the 1.2 million unique titles sold in 2004 had sales of more than 5,000 copies. Against this backdrop, the recent Authors Guild suit against the Google Library Project is poignantly wrongheaded..."
Of course cataloging all books will generate that many more searches which = more ad revenue and book sales. Watch out Amazon! However, my guess is that Google also wants to catalog all books for the content/context they can provide; to improve their search algorithms... Also perhaps leveraging the libraries taxonomies?
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