Bowerbird@aol.com writes:
but it is even _more_ annoying when they act _surprised_ when the consequences show up!
um, yes, bruce, google is being overly cautious. your scan-scraper script is one main reason why. and your catalog is _another_ main reason why...
I don't think I ever expressed surprise. Annoyance, perhaps. I don't believe that Google's decision to only classify books as PD only when there's an explicit copyright, as opposed to including books with an explicit publishing date has anything to do with my (or other people's) scan scraper, or my catalog. Furthermore, if they were so concerned about them, do you think they would have put about another 25,000 books online in the PD status, and added a select box to search for PD-only books? The PD-only search seems to miss some things, but I'm quibbling. BTW, Google is aware of my catalog, and the Google Books program manager mentioned my catalog as "Bruce Albrecht's catalog" (or something close to it) at a conference. They've never attempted to contact me. Interpret that as you will.