Don't be Evil, Part...Oh, who knows...

[rolanni]

For those who have wondered why it is I sporadically go on and on about the Google Settlement -- there was a meeting to 'splain it all, yesterday, in New York. I couldn't go, but suricattus did, and she took notes

Comments

[seabat4.livejournal.com]

Why would you NOT want your books to stay in print (not under Google's control, of course)?
Cathy

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

You might want to create-or-prove a demand in the marketplace; there might be another, new edition in play (Google thought that Agent of Change was out of print and fair game -- which it is, in the Del Rey edition. However, it happens to be very much in print -- as an ebook -- and will soon be part of an omnibus from Baen).

Having your book in print does you no good if you-the-author can't, as Steve mentions, benefit from its sale. Google is limiting how much I can benefit from the sale of my books through it; the Authors Guild will take another fee for adminstrative costs of its Registry; and the presence of a Google-edition may limit my ability to sell reprints elsewhere.