Diane Chamberlain's Blog - Posts Tagged "sky"

As some of you may know, for the past several years Google has made books "searchable" online. In other words, they scanned nearly all books--regardless of whether or not said books were still copyrighted--to make the contents searchable by anyone on the Internet. The Authors Guild brought suit against Google for copyright infringement on behalf of all authors and won. It's way too complicated an issue to go into here, but the upshot is that all authors have to slog through a registry of their books, in every language and edition, and state whether they "opt in" or "opt out" with regard to making their books searchable. I started this task and clearly realized it would take days to complete, so I asked my trusty assistant to take over. She quickly discovered how onerous a task I'd assigned her, but she at least got to giggle as she searched for my foreign titles. Many of the titles differ from country to country and she could only figure out which book was which by checking the synopsis using an Internet translation tool . So here, for your enjoyment, is the synopsis of the Italian version of Cypress Point, better known in Italy as Fog Over the Sky -- or something like that.