July 23, 2003

I know that the web

I know that the web in general has been influencing the way that people find information, a fact that was driven home to me when my son's report assignment specified that no more than two of his three sources could be web sites. I also knew that people were turning more to the web than to books -- my own financial statements can attest to that! But there's one thing I didn't figure on: Google indexes PDFs, but few books are online as PDFs, just articles. As this article on MSN points out, "Assuming this practice continues, and assuming that Google continues to grow in influence, we may find ourselves in a world where, if you want to get an idea into circulation, you're better off publishing a PDF file on the Web than landing a book deal."

Read the article with a grain of salt, though. MSN, the publisher, is planning to compete with Google in the near future. Is this the first salvo in the PR war?

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