Re: Neat summary of Google strategy

> I'd be happy with that, in general. Especially if notices were sent 3
> to 6 months before expiration. But it can't happen unless we change
> the Berne Convention.

It took us years to come into compliance and we still don't recognize  
moral rights. We're already not a Berne nation.

> And let's face it, by the time Google and the
> AAP and Author's Guild are done with us, copyright as we know it will
> be history. The law is now being made by private settlements, and
> we'll once again be a rogue nation in the world of copyright. <sigh>
>

Possibly so.
>

> Maybe. But of course fiction is a very small fraction of book
> publishing. And I think there's less of a correlation between top
> flight writing and publication than you might think. The primary
> consideration is not literary quality (beyond a certain minimum) but
> marketability. And that's a very different animal.

well, of course, which is why I also discussed non-fiction, at least  
commercial non-fiction. There are, I guess, other kinds of writing  
that needs to be considered.

>>
>> I was thinking this morning about what might be the result of the
>> Accelerated Reader program
>
>
>
> I say "From your mouth to God's ears!"

I'd LOVE to see some numbers from the AR folks. It would be nice to  
have some GOOD news in this business for once.

dej

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