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Jon Stewart Addresses Google and Net Neutrality.

“It’s kinda like creating a carpool lane on the Internet, except instead of high occupancy vehicles, only rich a**holes will be able to drive in it.”

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“When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is “Just how many books are out there?”” says Leonid Taycher, Google software engineer working on the Google Books project.

They counted 129,864,880 titles, or almost 130 million.

As you would expect, not everyone is buying Google’s count of all the world’s books, with Jon Stokes amongst others coming out with their own announcement, and that is the Google book count is bunkum.

So, a long time ago (at least it feels that way), having posted about Google’s desire to reproduce the world’s books, and the ensuing arguments that arose from it, I thought it was time to do an update on the books project to find out where were at and what had happened since we last discussed it.

So last time we talked about the Google books project, Amazon (who stood to have its book retailing market pulled from beneath it), Microsoft and various Governments (including the German and French) had weighed in on the opposing camp.

There was a fair bit of commentary, like this piece in Boing Boing and my own piece, How much power is too much power?
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