  • Google Book Search Helps, Not Hurts, Authors

    he Authors Alliance represents authors who want their books to be discoverable and reach new generations of readers. Book Search helps to achieve this goal.

    The Authors Guild has charged Google with “stealing” the works of millions of authors by digitizing and indexing books from research library collections for its Book Search project (“How Google Stole the Work of Millions of Authors” by Roxana Robinson, op-ed, Feb. 8). As the president of the Authors Alliance, I beg to differ. The Authors Alliance represents authors who want their books to be discoverable and reach new generations of readers. Book Search helps to achieve this goal. It consists largely of nonfiction books written by scholars in the hope that the books would be read by others and contribute to the ongoing...

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