http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/10/quick_links_on.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:47:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/10/quick_links_on.html/comment-page-1#comment-46362 A.J. Sutter Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:56:16 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/10/quick-links-on-the-google-book-search-deal.html#comment-46362 I don't understand why you're worried about Harvard's action. It sounds like they're worried about Google not allowing <i>enough</i> access and not charging "reasonable" prices. Of course, in the abstract, that could mean Harvard is worried that the prices could be unreasonably <i>low</i>, but Darnton's reference to absence of competition suggests that, in context, he's worried Google will charge too much. (BTW, Darnton is a leading scholar on the dissemination of books, including "subversive" literature and Diderot's Encyclopédie, during the Enlightenment and French Revolutionary period. Another reason to think he's not trying to bottle things up here.) I don’t understand why you’re worried about Harvard’s action. It sounds like they’re worried about Google not allowing enough access and not charging “reasonable” prices. Of course, in the abstract, that could mean Harvard is worried that the prices could be unreasonably low, but Darnton’s reference to absence of competition suggests that, in context, he’s worried Google will charge too much. (BTW, Darnton is a leading scholar on the dissemination of books, including “subversive” literature and Diderot’s Encyclopédie, during the Enlightenment and French Revolutionary period. Another reason to think he’s not trying to bottle things up here.)

]]> http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/10/quick_links_on.html/comment-page-1#comment-46361 A.J. Sutter Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:55:25 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/10/quick-links-on-the-google-book-search-deal.html#comment-46361 I don't understand why you're worried about Harvard's action. It sounds like they're worried about Google not allowing <i>enough</i> access and not charging "reasonable" prices. Of course, in the abstract, that could mean Harvard is worried that the prices could be unreasonably <i>low</i>, but Darnton's reference to absence of competition suggests that, in context, he's worried Google will charge too much. (BTW, Darnton is a leading scholar on the dissemination of books, including "subversive" literature and Diderot's Encyclopédie, during the Enlightenment and French Revolutionary period. Another reason to think he's not trying to bottle things up here.) I don’t understand why you’re worried about Harvard’s action. It sounds like they’re worried about Google not allowing enough access and not charging “reasonable” prices. Of course, in the abstract, that could mean Harvard is worried that the prices could be unreasonably low, but Darnton’s reference to absence of competition suggests that, in context, he’s worried Google will charge too much. (BTW, Darnton is a leading scholar on the dissemination of books, including “subversive” literature and Diderot’s Encyclopédie, during the Enlightenment and French Revolutionary period. Another reason to think he’s not trying to bottle things up here.)

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