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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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line-height: 110%;">OPLIN 4Cast #240: Google
Books highs and lows</span><br>
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alt="" height="83" width="57"></a>While many
folks have been focused on Google+, Google Books
has been bouncing from bad news to good news over
the past couple of weeks. Some of the news results
from legal issues, some from big deals, and some
from business competition. And in case things were
not busy enough for Google Books, they also just
released their <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/07/140-google-ebooks-reader-iriver-story-hd-hits-stores-july-17.ars">own
ebook reader</a>. The common thread in all of
these stories seems to be that Google believes
making ebooks more accessible is good business for
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/19/us-google-books-idUSTRE76I4AK20110719">Frustrated
judge pushes Google digital book deal</a>
(Reuters/Jonathan Stempel) "Citing antitrust and
copyright concerns, [U.S. District Judge Denny]
Chin had on March 22 rejected a $125 million
settlement. He said it went 'too far' in
allowing Google to exploit digitized copyrighted
works by selling subscriptions to them online
and engaging in 'wholesale copying of
copyrighted works without permission.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/06/20/google-teams-up-with-the-british-library-to-bring-vast-collection-online/">Google
teams up with The British Library to bring
vast collection online</a> (TheNextWeb/Paul
Sawers) "The deal with Google will enable
readers to view, search and copy works - where
the copyright has expired - at no charge. Google
will also make the books available through its
own portal."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/ipad-books-hobbled/">iPad
book apps hobbled: only existing
account-holders can use the apps, Google Books
booted</a> (TechCrunch/John Biggs)
"...according to their subscription rules,
everything had to go through Apple itself and
you could not, in short, go out to a web page to
complete the transaction. That promise – to shut
down external web stores on the iPad - has been
fulfilled and the Nook, Kindle, Kobo, and Google
Books apps have just been either drastically
changed or removed from the App Store entirely."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/07/23/pottermore-google-ebooks-for-everyone/">Pottermore
+ Google = ebooks for everyone</a> (Geeks are
Sexy/ACrezo) "In effect, Rowling will be
self-publishing the digital copies of <em>Harry
Potter</em> on Pottermore, a move that could
leave proprietary readers reeling from the loss
of potential earnings. It seems Rowling will be
taking Potter to Google, and publishing all of
the books through open-source Google eBooks
(purchasable through Google Checkout) in
DRM-free ePub and PDF formats."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Potter
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">According
to the <a
href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2011/07/pottermore-and-google-team-up-to-enable.html">Google
team</a>, the Pottermore team also plans to use
another Google outlet - YouTube - for video
broadcasts in the future.
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