Is Google Book Search fair to authors?

By Dan Blacharski

The Google Book Search has been controversial from the start, and there are a lot of misconceptions out there on both sides of the fence. A common one is that you can download any book in print, in full. I admit, when I first heard about it, I was afraid that Google was simply digitizing entire libraries and putting the results online -- a practice that would be disastrous for the publishing industry, blatantly unfair to authors, and outright illegal. Fortunately, they are not doing that.

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