On Mon, 22 May 2006 Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
michael said:
A friend asked him why. . . he said it was due to space limitations.
well, my one quibble with the article was when he mentioned the google library scanning as the main impetus for resurging interest about a cyberlibrary.
Obviously the press coverage about "Google library scanning" has done more "as the main impetus for resurg[ent] interest in a cyberlibrary" than the actualy scanning itself. We are coming up on the 18 month anniversary of the monster press blitz that announced, "This is the day the world changes." And the latest estimated I have received show that Google's total number of books has just recently passed 50,000, then again similar reports say that 88% are neither downloadable nor proofread to any particular level of accuracy. If we double that number to 100,000, we could pretend these results indicated that Google had accomplished 1% of a goal of 10,000,000 books, in 25% of their 6 year plan.
while that is undoubtedly true, i thought that he could have mentioned project gutenberg as well. it would've been a nod to your historic presence.
Somehow I don't think this was accidental. . . . Same with WIRED's approach since Conde Naste. . . . mh