[richdougherty]

> 2) Google Books is ruled fair use in part because the book descriptions (and snippets?) are metadata describing the books, information that should not be controlled by the authors.

It would be very interesting if, instead of showing verbatim snippets from books, there was an appropriate, high quality machine generated summary. This would be a genuine transformation of the source material.

[visarga]

Maybe in another 10 years. Good summarization is hard, especially over books with illustrations.