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| Joanna Bankier |
11/26/05
I have no objection to having my published/copyrighted works made available to the public via the Google Print Library Project.
Intellectual property rights are a thing of the past; they were not formulated to meet the challenges of a global world of writers and readers.
I very rarely hear from my readers. I often hear from my publishers who tell me a) my books do not sell; b) I should stay away from trying to make them known; c) the publisher knows best...
For example, it pleased me to find out from a Google search that my essay from 1993, published in Translation Perspectives (SUNY), has been translated into Turkish and published in an anthology of Turkish texts on translation. I would not have found out if it weren't for Google.A written text is a message in a bottle searching for sympathetic readers. Just consider the 50,000 (last time I checked) books published in the U.S. each year! What could be better in this glut of texts than getting them out there in index form so that people in, say, India, Norway, and China can find out about them.
Yes, it is true that the Internet does not encourage quality work. But neither does the publishing industry. Anymore.
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