Comments on: Quick Thoughts On Book Search http://booksquare.com/quick-thoughts-on-book-search/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 21 May 2012 06:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Maximum Persuasion http://booksquare.com/quick-thoughts-on-book-search/comment-page-1/#comment-166168 Maximum Persuasion Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:45:05 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/12/07/2237/#comment-166168 And beyond maintaining repositories, I feel that publishers better start beefing up their copy protection schemes! I see more and more books being transformed into digital format- and being made available for pirated download at some blogger's haven. Everything! From costly $30 computer training manuals to $11 romance books written by Leil Llowndes. Sigh And beyond maintaining repositories, I feel that publishers better start beefing up their copy protection schemes!

I see more and more books being transformed into digital format- and being made available for pirated download at some blogger’s haven.

Everything! From costly $30 computer training manuals to $11 romance books written by Leil Llowndes.

Sigh

]]> By: Booksquare http://booksquare.com/quick-thoughts-on-book-search/comment-page-1/#comment-155693 Booksquare Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:56:15 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/12/07/2237/#comment-155693 Adam, I might agree with you...except, well, publishers don't own the rights to the books. They license the rights from the authors. It seems like nitpicking, but as rights expire and are acquired by other entities (including authors who go the route of self-publishing), there tends to be a rights disaster. If HarperCollins only had hardcover rights to a book, where does the digital material reside? Does the consumer go with Harper or, say, Kensington (the publisher who has the paperback rights?). Or does a third publisher have the electronic rights? Publishers would have to acquire books in all media in perpetuity for this to make sense. I like the idea -- if I saw more evidence of publishers taking the lead on these things, I'd be thrilled (they'd still need the search engines, of course). But with this solution comes a range of other problems. Which I need to thing about more fully. Standards friendly -- absolutely. Competing formats are the wrong way to go. Adam, I might agree with you…except, well, publishers don’t own the rights to the books. They license the rights from the authors. It seems like nitpicking, but as rights expire and are acquired by other entities (including authors who go the route of self-publishing), there tends to be a rights disaster. If HarperCollins only had hardcover rights to a book, where does the digital material reside? Does the consumer go with Harper or, say, Kensington (the publisher who has the paperback rights?). Or does a third publisher have the electronic rights?

Publishers would have to acquire books in all media in perpetuity for this to make sense. I like the idea — if I saw more evidence of publishers taking the lead on these things, I’d be thrilled (they’d still need the search engines, of course). But with this solution comes a range of other problems. Which I need to thing about more fully.

Standards friendly — absolutely. Competing formats are the wrong way to go.

]]> By: Adam Hodgkin http://booksquare.com/quick-thoughts-on-book-search/comment-page-1/#comment-155645 Adam Hodgkin Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:08:21 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/12/07/2237/#comment-155645 Tim O'Reilly picked this up in his blog on O'Reilly Radar and I have commented on one fo the points he was making at http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2006/12/google-book-search-and-other-book.html Particularly interesting is O'Reilly's suggestion that the publishers really ought to be maintaining the book repositories. Some big publishers need to take a lead on that. It would help them control their own future and it needs to be done in a 'standards-friendly' way. Tim O’Reilly picked this up in his blog on O’Reilly Radar and I have commented on one fo the points he was making at
http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2006/12/google-book-search-and-other-book.html
Particularly interesting is O’Reilly’s suggestion that the publishers really ought to be maintaining the book repositories. Some big publishers need to take a lead on that. It would help them control their own future and it needs to be done in a ‘standards-friendly’ way.

]]> By: Martyn Daniels http://booksquare.com/quick-thoughts-on-book-search/comment-page-1/#comment-155237 Martyn Daniels Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:54:17 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/12/07/2237/#comment-155237 I believe you synopsis is spot on and more interestingly both are also declaring their hand re selling digital content. There are many good things about the search engiones getting involved in books but there are also many dangers. http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com has an entry about omnivore wars which backs much of your comments but i fear many will run and collect their few pieces of silver. I believe you synopsis is spot on and more interestingly both are also declaring their hand re selling digital content. There are many good things about the search engiones getting involved in books but there are also many dangers. http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com
has an entry about omnivore wars which backs much of your comments but i fear many will run and collect their few pieces of silver.

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