Alex Wright


A Million Little Snippets

March 9, 2006

Newly elected Authors Guild President Roy Blount Jr, on taking up the gauntlet against Google Book Search:

“Nick told me to just fix the Google thing and the rest would be easy,” said Mr. Blount. “Sounds like a job for a humorist. Google wants to give away "snippets" of authors' work. Maybe we could work something out, there. But what constitutes a snippet? We might begin by stipulating that no snippet shall be as large as a full witticism. Then we might measure how many snippets there are in, for instance, ‘A Million Little Pieces.’” > Roy Blount Jr. Elected Authors Guild President


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