the benefits of authors

An old news.

I understand the concerns those authors have. But in fact, that's not reasonable.

In the news, Google said:

"We regret that this group has chosen litigation to try to stop a program that will make books and the information within them more discoverable to the world," the company said.

Authors worry if their books could be read on-line for free, who else wants to buy those books?

We know something called library, and we also have borrow books from libraries. Why don't authors have concerns of the situation? Because it's limited as you can't borrow to read the books already borrow by others. The ratio of free reading is limited under a certain level. In Internet the limitation is broken. Thousands of people search and same book on-line. Authors worry the usage has damage on their benefits.

But is it really damage? Or it will be an benefit for those authors if thinking again?

Somebody like to buy books. Somebody don't like to. If someone likes to read whole book in library, he/she will do it regardless of how great the book is. And the author of the book lose the benefit. In same condition, he/she still wants to read whole book on Internet. But what's happen now? By imposing copyright technology, it's hardly to do that. And large proportion of possible readers may be not have the require skills to break that facilities. At that time, the searchable materials of books on Internet increase profit authors receive because it widen the possibility those books to be discover by possible readers.

So, if one guy doesn't want to buy books, he/she doesn't buy whether you put it on-line or library or bookstore or elsewhere. Internet even provides the equipment to protect more thoroughly author's materials. For those like to buy books, better to authors is increase the probabilities possible readers (buyers?) to catch the wind of those books and to be roused their interesting of those books.