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Harvard's partnership with Google Books

Verba

Sidney Verba, director of the Harvard University Library, is overseeing the university's partnership with the Google Books project.

"The thing that consoles me," Mr. Verba said, "is Google's notion of showing only the snippets, which have everything to do with what's in the book, but nothing to do with reading the book."

Absolutely true. Get a clue, book publishers!

November 21, 2005 at 06:12 PM in Books | Permalink | Comments (0) | Bookmark this entry on del.icio.us | blog comments on this post (1)

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