Archive for December 22nd, 2004
Google Won’t Replace Libraries
"This week Google Inc. down in Mountain View, wading in dough from its stock offering, announced it would use some of the money to put millions of volumes from the country’s great libraries online where anybody can use them.
"Don’t burn that library card just yet, though.
"There’s a catch. Well, several. First, as anyone trying to send Grandma’s recipe for plum pudding to a sister in Des Moines knows, scanning takes time. Google claims to have a new whiz-bang way to do it — there won’t be some luckless employee feeling her brain cells die as she flattens a book on a cranky copier page by page. It won’t say exactly what its method is.
"For a company bent on putting the universe at the disposal of anyone who can type words into a box, it seems less enthusiastic about information flowing out of its headquarters in Mountain View."
Adair Lara. ‘Googleizing’ Libraries Won’t Replace Books. San Francisco Chronicle. Dec. 18, 2004.
See also:
No author. Here’s What You Will – and Won’t – Be Able to See When Searching for Library Books on Google. Detroit Free Press. Dec. 15, 2004.
George Kerevan. Despite Google, We Still Need Good Libraries. Scotsman.com. Dec. 16, 2004.
National Public Radio. Google’s Plan Prompts a Question: What’s on the Web?. Talk of the Nation. Dec. 15, 2004.
Matt Hicks. Google’s Library Project Could Drive Content Contest. eWeek. Dec. 14, 2004.
Andrew Leonard. What Google Promises Us. Salon. Dec. 14, 2004.
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New Copy-Protected Music CDs on Horizon
"A new kind of copy-protected music CD will likely hit U.S. shelves early next year, as record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment experiments with a technology created by British developer First 4 Internet, according to sources familiar with the companies.
"Several major music labels have already used a version of the British company’s technology on prerelease compact discs distributed for review and other early-listening purposes, including on recent albums from Eminem and U2.
"The releases for the retail market, expected early in 2005, will be the first time the Sony music label issues copy-protected CDs in the U.S. market, although the company’s other divisions have done so in other regions. BMG, Sony’s new corporate sibling, has been more aggressive, with a handful of protected CDs released last year."
John Borland. New CD Copy-Lock Technology Nears Market. News.com. Dec. 16, 2004.
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