Google Books

[Nick Thompson]

Dear all,

 

A lot of my thinking is about old ideas, and that send me back looking for old texts, specifically from the later 19^th and early 20^th century.  It seems that when I first started at this project, I could use google books very handily to get old texts.  Now it seems that every time I go to get an old text, somebody “owns” it, and google books won’t give it to me.  Was I just lucky early on and my luck has turned or has capitalist evil once again tainted paradise.  NONE of these things are anywhere near in copy right. 

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

http://www.cusf.org

 

 

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[Roger Critchlow-2]

Nick --

Could you give a specific example?  I've found that reprints which generate revenues for someone tend to magically float to the top of the heap, but the free scans are still in there.  For instance, I search "quaternions" and I get lots of recent books for sale, but I click the "Free Google eBooks" link in the sidebar and I'm back in the 19th century looking at Hamilton and Tate.  A search for "william james" brings up original free texts mixed with more recently edited collections, clicking the "Free Google eBooks" link makes the edited collections go away.

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear all,

 

A lot of my thinking is about old ideas, and that send me back looking for old texts, specifically from the later 19^th and early 20^th century.  It seems that when I first started at this project, I could use google books very handily to get old texts.  Now it seems that every time I go to get an old text, somebody “owns” it, and google books won’t give it to me.  Was I just lucky early on and my luck has turned or has capitalist evil once again tainted paradise.  NONE of these things are anywhere near in copy right. 

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

http://www.cusf.org

 

 

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[Nick Thompson]

Thanks, Roger.  Good point.  Nick

 

From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:45 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Google Books

 

Nick --

 

Could you give a specific example?  I've found that reprints which generate revenues for someone tend to magically float to the top of the heap, but the free scans are still in there.  For instance, I search "quaternions" and I get lots of recent books for sale, but I click the "Free Google eBooks" link in the sidebar and I'm back in the 19th century looking at Hamilton and Tate.  A search for "william james" brings up original free texts mixed with more recently edited collections, clicking the "Free Google eBooks" link makes the edited collections go away.

 

-- rec --

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear all,

 

A lot of my thinking is about old ideas, and that send me back looking for old texts, specifically from the later 19^th and early 20^th century.  It seems that when I first started at this project, I could use google books very handily to get old texts.  Now it seems that every time I go to get an old text, somebody “owns” it, and google books won’t give it to me.  Was I just lucky early on and my luck has turned or has capitalist evil once again tainted paradise.  NONE of these things are anywhere near in copy right. 

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

http://www.cusf.org

 

 

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