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Friday, November 14, 2003
Dipping into books online: Is it stealing? - John C. Ryan, The Christian Science Monitor
Late last month, Amazon.com opened a whole new portal to the world of books. The cyberretailer's new "Search Inside the Book" feature makes the entire content of books available - free - to anyone with a high-speed internet connection and a credit card. While the program has delighted many book lovers, it has sent chills down others' spines.... "When we learned of the program, we thought that it would be impossible to read more than five consecutive pages from a book in the program," the Authors Guild said in a statement on its website. "It turns out that it's quite simple (though a bit inconvenient) to look at 100 or more consecutive pages from a single lengthy book. We've even printed out 108 consecutive pages from a bestselling book."
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