More Google Evil
Like many others, I’ve noticed a lot of things over the past few months of Google doing that are definitely evil. Here is the latest one:
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web (The New York Times)
Saying that the deals are not exclusive is not an excuse to what they are trying to do. They will take the works for millions of people for free and use it for their commercial advantage and not allow everyone to freely have it. For God’s sake, those are public domain books. I see two ways now
- Say No Thank You to Google and a few years (even if it is 10 or 20) years down the line projects like Gutenberg will eventually do the task with volunteer support. We waited more than 80 years for them, I am sure we can wait more.
- Hand over those books forever to the commerical advantage of a single (or a few) company in exchange for immediate access to digital content.