News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #124…

Google allows piracy. I’m hammering this home. Go to that famous search engine and search for “book piracy through Google.” You’ll get an eye-opener, so much so that you won’t even need your daily infusion of caffeine. I can’t say they encourage it, of course. It’s just that they don’t do anything about it. They want to digitize every book that’s been written. I don’t know how that relates to them allowing piracy, but I’m suspicious. Like my detectives Chen and Castilblanco, I don’t believe i...