[guidoism]

I’m fairly confident that google books is a huge money loser for google. The only reason it’s still online is because there are people within google willing to stick their necks out to spend the money on it.

[BlueTemplar]

Indeed, but for how long, considering the Google Books team itself seemingly wants to delete the ~100M books database ?

P.S.: Might be soon, considering that it was basically what Google was initially about, and one of the founders just resigned from Alphabet...

[dredmorbius]

Source on the deletion initiative?

[BlueTemplar]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694061

[dredmorbius]

Thanks, though I was hoping for better than an HN comment...