the changing future of books

[exponentialdk]

Helping move copyright practice into the 21st century:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/804a22d6-a558-11dd-b4f5-000077b07658.html

Comments

[yandros]

Does this count as `kicking and screaming'?

[yakshaver]

That really does sound like about as sane an outcome as could have been hoped for. (I was talking to my ex, Paula, who's a copyright lawyer, about this a few months ago. It's pretty much the outcome she predicted.)

[ukelele]

So I just discovered that some of the books in my university's library catalog have a "more info" link which goes to complete searchable online texts via Google Books and that is the AWESOMEST THING EVER.

[exponentialdk]

:-)

Isn't it nice having a school that isn't stuck up about working with a corporation? *coughHarvardCough*