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corinthianscori opened this issue on Jan 08, 2011 · 20 posts
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corinthianscori ( ) posted Sat, 08 January 2011 at 11:33 PM · edited Wed, 27 November 2024 at 12:37 AM

Am I insane or is this Google giving away a FREE online copy of a book that's for sale?

Is this illegal or is this some sorta Google-bought-this-book-and-put-it-online thing? Maybe some user scanned and posted all this?

Secrets of Poser Figure Creation

 

I already own this book:D Where is the updated version?! Could have sworn amazon said one was coming a YEAR AGO!!! blah!

corinthianscori ( ) posted Sat, 08 January 2011 at 11:36 PM

Okay, so about 15 pages are missing. But nearly $50 for a $10(used with CD) book?! Google is bonkers! No one's gonna pay that! Even to have it RIGHT NOW via ebook'ing. Cheaper to overnight ship the real thing!

markschum ( ) posted Sat, 08 January 2011 at 11:41 PM

Its a sample of the Book. A few merchants are doing it, you can look at only some pages of the book. They say on the left that its available for 43$ as an ebook.

ockham ( ) posted Sun, 09 January 2011 at 7:35 AM

When it comes to marketing, Google is rarely bonkers.  Whatever trick they're pulling, you can be sure it's profitable for them... though probably not for the author.

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vintorix ( ) posted Sun, 09 January 2011 at 8:01 AM

 Sounds interesting. Is there any more books about the subject?

?

 

kyhighlander59 ( ) posted Sun, 09 January 2011 at 8:55 AM

actually they got sued over this and won. The judge for some reason didn't think it was a violation of the copyright holders rights. said it was no different than a library making it available. I disagree, but then who am I? LOL

pjz99 ( ) posted Sun, 09 January 2011 at 9:29 AM

If you look you'll notice it's only showing a few pages of any chapter.

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kyhighlander59 ( ) posted Sun, 09 January 2011 at 9:30 AM

They used to have the entire book online on google.

kyhighlander59 ( ) posted Sun, 09 January 2011 at 9:32 AM

"How'd You Do That" by DAD is a very good book on figure creation as well.

vintorix ( ) posted Sun, 09 January 2011 at 9:50 AM · edited Sun, 09 January 2011 at 9:52 AM

Attached Link: 'Secrets of Poser Experts'

by Daryl Wise, Jesse Derooy.

I found this, and have ordered it..it looks like it's going to be an interesting Poser-spring..

crocodilian ( ) posted Sun, 09 January 2011 at 6:01 PM

Remember-- Google automates everything; eBook pricing is going to be whatever the publisher and the Google algorithm agree to . . . there's no human in the loop to review a price "hey this doesn't make sense"

Long way of saying that some prices will be attractive, others less so.

In general, I find technical handbooks are vastly more useful as eBooks than on paper

corinthianscori ( ) posted Sun, 09 January 2011 at 10:48 PM

Yeah, I bet Google DID get sued over this kinda stuff. It IS a kick in the author's teeth to have over 50% of their book available for free by a non-publisher. C'est la vie!

WandW ( ) posted Mon, 10 January 2011 at 6:42 AM · edited Mon, 10 January 2011 at 6:42 AM

Quote - Yeah, I bet Google DID get sued over this kinda stuff. It IS a kick in the author's teeth to have over 50% of their book available for free by a non-publisher. C'est la vie!

 

Nothing to be sued over, as it notes that it is with the premission of the Publisher*:"Pages displayed by permission of Elsevier." *

If they can generate even a few additional sales for a seven-year old technical book (it is for Poser 5, after all) thay are doing well...

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kyhighlander59 ( ) posted Mon, 10 January 2011 at 6:43 AM

I was refering to when google was trying to digitize all those books and make them available for free on the internet. Now seems they are trying to be amazon.com.

pjz99 ( ) posted Mon, 10 January 2011 at 8:21 AM · edited Mon, 10 January 2011 at 8:22 AM

Kyhighlander are you sure you're not thinking of Gutenberg Project rather than Google?

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page 

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kyhighlander59 ( ) posted Mon, 10 January 2011 at 8:26 AM

I have the flu so I may be, but seems it was google making books available online for free and was sued. Was about 8 years ago. I have accessed some books thru google like that, but don't have the url so I may be mistaken.

thinks get a bit fuzzy when your sick.

MagnusGreel ( ) posted Mon, 10 January 2011 at 8:27 AM

Quote - If they can generate even a few additional sales for a seven-year old technical book (it is for Poser 5, after all) thay are doing well...

 

no much has changed since. the book is still relevant to poser 8 and 2010....

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ratscloset ( ) posted Tue, 11 January 2011 at 10:11 PM

The Set Up Room has changed.. The Book is great.. and can still be purchased... I lost mine and bought a new copy.

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pjz99 ( ) posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 4:32 AM

Quote - http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/10/20/publishers_battle_google_book_index/

Ahh I see what it was - not wanting to pay $5 for the privilege of reading that article, that was enough of a clue to find it:

http://www.googlebooksettlement.com/

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