Google Book Search is a fine thing
Google Book Search, and in particular the way in which it’s helping me promote my “difficult first novel” Liquidambar to a potentially global readership, gives me an excuse for some shameless self-promotion. By registering with Google and supplying them with PDFs of selected pages of your book (assuming you’re the copyright owner), you authorise Google to publish “snippets” of it online. Google also offers writers and publishers a web search of reviews for their book(s), along with links to various online book stores that may or may not stock it... (if you think you detect a note of bitterness there, you’d be correct). There are other caveats, and as long as the programme is in beta it’s bound to be less than perfect. But publishers take note: Google Book Search and Amazon’s Search Inside will revolutionise the way people search for books — not to mention the reasons why they buy them. More…
posted by Chris Bell at 8:25 PM
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