At a conference last week, a book publisher snatched two Google laptops from their stand and held them nearby for over an hour before they noticed and asked for them back.
The publisher did it to make a point: Just as they didn’t like their laptops stolen, neither do publishers like their content stolen by the Google Books project.
It seems like maybe, just maybe, that might be oversimplifying the situation a bit, so as usual you can read a more in-depth analysis on Ars.
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