Comments on: Cory Doctorow on Traditional Publishing vs. Conversational Media http://www.contentious.com/2006/02/14/cory-doctorow-on-traditional-publishing-vs-conversational-media/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:36:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Antony Van Couvering http://www.contentious.com/2006/02/14/cory-doctorow-on-traditional-publishing-vs-conversational-media/comment-page-1/#comment-59650 Antony Van Couvering Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:13:20 +0000 #comment-59650 While it's short-sighted for publishers not to publish their stuff online, I'm completely at a loss why they would want Google to do it on GoogleBooks. Why not just publish it themselves? That way they get the book indexed in Google's primary index (and those of other search engines) instead of the secondary book index. Furthermore, there's nothing to prevent them from doing both. While it’s short-sighted for publishers not to publish their stuff online, I’m completely at a loss why they would want Google to do it on GoogleBooks. Why not just publish it themselves? That way they get the book indexed in Google’s primary index (and those of other search engines) instead of the secondary book index. Furthermore, there’s nothing to prevent them from doing both.

]]> By: Romerican http://www.contentious.com/2006/02/14/cory-doctorow-on-traditional-publishing-vs-conversational-media/comment-page-1/#comment-59036 Romerican Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:46:03 +0000 #comment-59036 Your post reminds me of another I read today over at PaidContent* where there's a quote from a former AT&T exec who likens Google to Comcast, in that they view Google as a potential adversary. Once again, like in your post, we have another example of powerbrokers who don't quite "get it" about how the content world is probably restructing itself (unless, of course, they keep bribing politicians to enact draconian measures as we've witnessed). (* - http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2006_02_13.shtml#053626 ) Your post reminds me of another I read today over at PaidContent* where there’s a quote from a former AT&T exec who likens Google to Comcast, in that they view Google as a potential adversary. Once again, like in your post, we have another example of powerbrokers who don’t quite “get it” about how the content world is probably restructing itself (unless, of course, they keep bribing politicians to enact draconian measures as we’ve witnessed).

(* – http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2006_02_13.shtml#053626 )

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