tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28278131.post644550505573832901..comments2024-02-01T12:31:52.518-05:00Comments on Personanondata: Google Lending BooksMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08121709548793388116noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28278131.post-63451803318554037282009-06-18T15:53:56.010-04:002009-06-18T15:53:56.010-04:00It was last name @ google.com.It was last name @ google.com.MChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08121709548793388116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28278131.post-56945895842575965102009-06-18T15:44:40.919-04:002009-06-18T15:44:40.919-04:00Can you tell me how to obtain his e-mail address a...Can you tell me how to obtain his e-mail address as I would also like to contact him.<br />Thanks<br />BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28278131.post-44904546854130294272007-05-09T12:18:00.000-04:002007-05-09T12:18:00.000-04:00A mí la idea me parece, en principio, positiva: to...A mí la idea me parece, en principio, positiva: toda la cultura universal, todos los libros jamás editados, sin trabas, al alcance por igual de plebes y aristocracias. Pero surgen a mi ver, dos graves problemas al menos para este proyecto de futuro próximo:<BR/><BR/>1. La página digital jamás podrá sustituir a la de papel pues tiene efectos diferentes -más pobres- en el lector.<BR/><BR/>2. Existen determinados libros que, en sesencia y por su contenido, están escritos para llegar a un número reducido y exquisito de lectores. Y de este modo perderían su esencia, morirían difusos en el maremágnum de la vulgaridad moderna. Hablo, por ejemplo, de una edición surrealista de André Breton o de Tristan Tzara publicada en los años veinte, o de las "Soledades" de Góngora.<BR/><BR/>3. En estos tiempos de adocenamiento cultural, aborregamiento y sumisión a lo políticamente correcto (y no hablo sólo de nuestra decadente España) el poner toda la infinita cultura universal al alcance de la gleba no soluciona nada; más bien lo empeora todo. Las neuronas al uso están cada vez menos preparadas para digerir o procesar toda esa información abrumadora, carentes de una formación cultural mínima que pueda siquiera situar esas obras hisóricas, filosóficas o literarias en su contexto. Y el efecto producudo es justamente el contrario: el rechazo frontal a la lectura/cultura y lo que esto conlleva, animalización y falta de libertad, pero justamente -estoy convencidísimo de ello- lo que pretenden los gerifaltes del Sistema: una población global cada vez más inculta y sumisa en esta nueva era de esclavismo mental y laboral.<BR/><BR/>Como siempre, las nuevas tecnologías (y Google es el mejor ejemplo) al servicio de la maldita globalización, pero de un modo hipócrita: vendiéndonos la moto de la democratización de la cultura pero pervirtiendo ésta, matándola, masificándola hasta el vómito para formar nuevos esclavos.<BR/><BR/>Un saludo a todos.Marco Antonio Yglesiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16341276644505920489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28278131.post-56254306721258361212007-05-08T11:24:00.000-04:002007-05-08T11:24:00.000-04:00Hi Michael - well, we didn't manage to meet at the...Hi Michael - well, we didn't manage to meet at the Fair, but we almost certainly attended the same presentations. While I'm essentially a big fan of GBS, they've started to make me very nervous with the way they're talking.<BR/><BR/>Essentially, they're misleading publishers, and it's not good.<BR/><BR/>I wrote about it here, if you're interested, together with links to further discussion, and I'd be interested to hear your thoughts:<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2kmbu7Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28278131.post-1942218015481629422007-05-02T21:45:00.000-04:002007-05-02T21:45:00.000-04:00Been thinking about this same subject from a sligh...Been thinking about this same subject from a slightly different angle. When OverDrive and netLibrary invented the library ebook model, from the very beginning they used DRM so that the libraries couldn't lend more copies at one time than they had purchased. And in this way imitated the economics of physical books that a digital world might have sidestepped.<BR/>But there's another difference: ebooks don't wear out and they don't get lost, either. So every copy lasts forever. Real books aren't like that: you lend them 25, 50, 100 times; eventually you have to replace them.<BR/>I believe audio publishers have already discovered the concept of limiting the number of loans before you pay more. That puts them back to the world of cassettes (which wear out; CDs only get lost.)<BR/>If library loans move much more to ebooks -- or should we say "when" -- then the replacement sale market on backlist, which is not insubstantial, will be lost unless a number of loans cap is put into place.Mike Shatzkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379396250041253335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28278131.post-18569090956184620572007-05-02T17:57:00.000-04:002007-05-02T17:57:00.000-04:00adam,Thanks for the comment. I didn't really think...adam,<BR/>Thanks for the comment. I didn't really think that he would reply and I agree they are probably quite particular about what they say. We may hear more about this and other stuff when they present at BookExpo at the end of the month.MChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08121709548793388116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28278131.post-44392019097052572042007-05-02T13:03:00.000-04:002007-05-02T13:03:00.000-04:00Fascinating post. I am not surprised that Google h...Fascinating post. I am not surprised that Google have not yet responded. They surely dont yet know where they stand on most of this. There may also be a lot of lawyers looking at what they say...Adam Hodgkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13855740291868776584noreply@blogger.com