--- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:41:25 -0500 To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> From: Doug Isenberg <disenberg@private> Subject: My thoughts on Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book" feature In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031111084259.02045600@private> Declan: You may have noticed that CNET News.com has just published my column about Amazon.com's new and controversial "Search Inside the Book" feature. Here are a couple of excerpts: "I wrote a book that sells for $17.95. Amazon.com has always advertised it for 30 percent off. Now, the Web retailer is offering online access to every page of my book for free. I like the idea, though the copyright lawyer in me is a bit uneasy about it.... "The company says it has agreements with 190 publishers to publish their books' actual pages online. But I've not heard of Amazon asking for permission from the books' authors, and, as an author myself, I can say for certain that neither Amazon nor Random House directly asked me to participate in this feature.... "The more interesting issue is whether Amazon needs permission from us authors or even, for that matter, from our publishers themselves." Feel free to share this link to the column with your Politech readers: http://news.com.com/2010-1025-5105389.html Doug Isenberg Attorney at Law Editor & Publisher, GigaLaw.com (http://www.GigaLaw.com) // Get FREE daily technology law news @ http://www.GigaLaw.com/news // _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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