[bksvol-discuss] Re: Speaking of Google Books, and Alissa please read this.
- From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:44:50 -0800
Right, well I hope that this will work, the suggestion you made to
bookshare staff.
On 2/20/12, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can download the ones that are out of copyright, but the most of
> them you cannot. You will recall that when Google first started Google
> books the publishers had a fit over it. Then an agreement was finally
> worked out in which Google could distribute their books to certain
> libraries for lending with some pretty stringent restrictions the
> details of which I don't recall. As I understand the copyright exception
> that Bookshare operates under, though, it should be just fine if Google
> turned over all those files to be used at Bookshare just like any other
> book is used at Bookshare and that would mean a fantastic growth of the
> Bookshare collection in a very short time. Right now, though, the best
> you can do in accessing Google books is to read snippets of text here
> and there like we have been discussing insofar as we search for a small
> bit of text in order to decipher an unclear word.
>
> On 2/20/2012 1:30 AM, Barbara B wrote:
>> Can an individual get the google books and download them to the computers?
>> Barbara
>>
>> --- On *Sun, 2/19/12, Roger Loran Bailey /<rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Speaking of Google Books, and Alissa
>> please read this.
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012, 6:00 PM
>>
>> Speaking of Google books, I am reminded of something. A long time
>> ago, in the context of publisher donated books, I asked if there
>> was any possibility of getting Google to donate the electronic
>> texts of their millions of books to Bookshare. My understanding of
>> the copyright law should make this possible. Just think.
>> Bookshare's collection could grow by about six million books all
>> at once. Pavi said that Bookshare was in talks with Google about
>> just that. Well, since I am recalling back at least two volunteer
>> coordinators and it was well before she left then that was
>> certainly a long time ago. The discussion of the matter ended on
>> that note. I think enough time has passed to ask about it again.
>> What is the status of those talks with Google? Will we ever get
>> those millions of books into the collection?
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