Who Could Resist the Loving Arms of Google?

I remembered that I wrote a book.

(And it's available at a knockdown bargain price right here!)

Not remembered remembered, because I quite often check on its position in the Amazon hot one million.

What I remembered was that google's threat/promise to digitise all the world's books might apply to me sooner or later, and maybe I ought to pay a bit of attention to that.

The reason I've skimmed over it so far is that I never expected to make any money from writing a book. It's a slim volume of verse, after all. 

So for me, google promising to give it an everlasting findable digital afterlife is quite a welcome offer.

And the reasons to not be in favour of that aren't backed by much self interest.

I won't loose anything by it, and the reasons why I think it might be a bad thing are quite abstract - that it's yet another way for google to build up mountains of cross referenceable data about searches and clicks that they can data-mine down to the final 1 and 0 to such an extent that no one can ever hope to challenge or better it and in the end google will come to own, rather than just organise, all the knowledge in the world, because they have most data about how it's travelled across.

And sell advertising on the back of it.

Which is much less of a motivation to get worked up than the thought that google are stealing my livelihood, which they aren't.

But of course that could soon change, and boy would I get mad with them then!