Thomas Pynchon sez "No! In Thunder" to Google

[Michael Bailey]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/23/authors-opt-out-google-book-settlement
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yeahp, not sure how I'd approach it, as an author

What it looks like as a reader, is the author - on google.books
as it stands now - can choose
whether to let them reveal all, part or none of the text

revealing only part of the text would seem to be a nice teaser
that would still reserve part of it for paying customers,
but that's just conjecture...

there's still a loss of control and a ceding of something to
a quasi-monopolistic entity that is a toddler in terms of institutional lifespan
with who knows what mergers, management changes, policy changes,
monetizing initiatives or partnerships ahead of it

still, they did choose "don't be evil" as their motto...