Tech | November 24, 2009 | 1 comment

At National Book Awards, Google Tells the Book Industry to Go Screw Itself

source: http://www.motherboard.tv/2009/11/20/at-national-book-awards-google-tells-the-book-industry-...

Image
ochreRobot
Having Google sponsor your big book party might feel a bit like having MTV sponsor your underground punk show, or the coal industry sponsor your climate change campaign, or a big computer maker sponsor your feisty, ragtag technology site. Sure, everyone’s doing it these days, but Google showed up at the National Book Awards after-party the other night on Wall Street looking awfully suspect. He wore borrowed tweed and spoke in accents, like some celebrity-turned-literary star: widely adored but also despised, even feared, for what he might do to this precious, fragile world of letters.

--More at link --

http://www.motherboard.tv/2009/11/20/at-national-book-awards-google-tells-the-bo...
  1. groups:
    Tech,   Current Tonight,   Upstream,   Max and Jason: Still Up,   4 more
  2. tags:
    Tech,  Technology,  Google,  Books,  1 more
  3.     
    |

1 comment // At National Book Awards, Google Tells the Book Industry to Go Screw Itself

more from Tech:
from the community

top videos