Would you like some cheese with that whine?
Found at Post-Gazette.com:
Richard Hull, executive director of the Text and Academic Authors Association, called Google’s approach backwards. Publishers shouldn’t have to bear the burden of record-keeping, agreed Sanfilippo, the Penn State press’s marketing and sales director.
“We’re not aware of everything we’ve published,” Sanfilippo said. “Back in the 50s, 60s and 70s, there were no electronic files for those books.”
“But Mo-OO-om! Work is hard! There were no computers back then. Don’t make me go through papers!”
Is it just me, or does this single statement speak volumes about how some publishers treat their content providers? They don’t care enough about them to even pay attention to whether they’ve published them or not.