Re:Indexing or Caching? (Score 1)

Eric Schmidt sure does write a better op-ed than Pat Schroeder and Bob Barr. The bottom line is the customer gets a better experience and the publishers will make more since people will be better able to find books. Yes, Google is bound to make a butt-load; that's what companies that provide revolutionarily useful services do. Once an idea like thing is out, no one can put it down again - it's just too damn useful. Killing the google print project would be like making libraries go back to card catalogues.

Even after reading this op-ed I don't understand where the AAP is coming from. Are they afraid Google will start offering entire books as the op-ed suggests? That is ridiculous; Google would get their ass sued and there is no way around that. IMO the AAP is terrified of losing power: the power to control market demand, the power to let older publications fade into oblivian, the power to do things the same way they know and like. Just as the *IAAs desperately tried to maintain the status quo, the APP follows suit. The *IAA lost power and it was going against an unorganized group of theives. The AAP doesn't stand a chance against a $80 billion dollar enterprise that will text message you, for free, the phone number of the nearest pizza place. AAP: get with the times.