Google search results are the “table of contents for a custom-made magazine”
Earlier this year, MobyLives wrote about a Google-commissioned report that characterized the tech giant as a publisher, for First Amendment purposes. Now Cory Doctorow, writing in The Guardian, outlines the… Read more »
E-book holdout Thomas Pynchon agrees to digitize his backlist
The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog is reporting that after refusing to get on the digital bandwagon for years, novelist Thomas Pynchon has struck a deal with his publisher,… Read more »
Is Google a publisher? A study it commissioned says yes
A new advocacy paper by a prominent First Amendment scholar argues that Google is a publisher, and as such, its search results are free to favor some sites and block others,… 1 / Read more »