Some Fear Google’s Power in Digital Books by Noam Cohen, New York Times (Feb 1)
Continuing the debate on whether Google is good or evil, Cohen picks out some points from an article in The New York Review of Books by Robert Darnton and others. In brief, it might be -- "To those who write about the significance of Google Book Search ... it is not Google’s role as the owner of content that preoccupies them. Rather it is the digitization itself: the centralization — and homogenization — of information."
Posted by Gwen at February 4, 2009 12:56 AM