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According to a story that ran in the WSJ (sub required; I won't link), Amazon's full-text search (see preceding entry) hasn't won over one publisher: Tim O'Reilly. (View the TechDirt article.)

This is a little surprising, because O'Reilly is usually in tune with stuff like this - hell, the O'Reilly site has lots of free online chapters of books they sell - an inducement to buy the dead-tree book, of course.

And this is pretty much Amazon's goal is, I would think (although they probably have loftier goals, as well).

And - interestingly (to me) - O'Reilly is quoted in article as saying, "'If [Amazon ends] up being a Google for published content...we need to think better about what publishers get out of it."

Which is pretty much what I alluded to in my last entry.

I wonder what really went on there...it seems like something O'Reilly would be all over.