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by guidoism 2390 days ago
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.
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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...

Source on the deletion initiative?
Thanks, though I was hoping for better than an HN comment...