On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:03:18PM -0500, Jim Tinsley wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:49:41 -0800 (PST), Michael Hart <hart@pglaf.org> wrote:
How many of you have tried Google Print?
Have you noticed that the intitial offering of eBooks strongly resembles the Project Gutenberg catalogue???
This and some responses made me think that some people are thinking along the lines that they are using our texts in some way, so I checked it out. I figure that the answer is no, to both the explicit and implied questions.
I started by searching for quotes from 20 etexts chosen at random from etext99, as follows: ...
Fascinating analysis, thanks. Just a quick note that Google only indexes the first 100 or 150K of eBooks (they didn't give me a firm number, but confirmed there was a limit). This means that quotes from later parts of our eBooks > ~150K won't be found. -- Greg