"Throwing Google at the Book" is an article written by Farhad Manjoo describing the legality issues with Google's plan to create a digitalized library. Manjoo lays out two arguments: one that sides with Google, and one that rejects Google's plan.
Reject Google's plan because publishers and copyright owners believe digital copies of books will drastically decrease book sales and increase potential loss for authors. uses the example of napster and how its intention was to preview songs and instead, record sales dropped instead of increasing.
Side with Google thinks that it's a win-win situation for everyone because authors whose books are unknown and not popular will gain recognition when web users search the engine since they never knew it even existed. only showing a couple sentences, not offering to show the whole book or even whole chapters for that matter. if user is interested they still have to go out and buy the book. so everyone wins.
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