It is hard these days to be both a writer and someone who posts on the web. How do you balance the needs of a hardworking writer to make money, with the inherent open and freely available nature of the Internet? Just as the printing press transformed publishing in the age of Gutenberg, now the Net is transforming it again. And the starving writer is caught somewhere in the middle. In an attempt to stem the tide, the Authors Guild is suing Googe over its plan to digitize whole libraries and make the text freely available online.
Update 9/21/05 at 5 PM: Google has posted their response to the lawsuit. They make some interesting points.
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