OpenDeadTree: Google’s patent on turning 1s and 0s into ink on paper takes the shine off my inner Rachael Ray
Written by amedeo on November 20th, 2007
Google grabs a patent for producing printed publications from Web content [via Dan Blank, Online Journalism Blog and TechCrunch].
This puts a damper on the idea that journalism organizations could chase after a Web tool allowing customers to assemble news and information into custom books that could be printed, much like many recipe sites allow brave chefs to assemble their own cookbooks. But Google doing the grunt work doesn’t mean revenue opportunities will disappear; it just means they’ll be shared.
I expect the online tools for organizing information will eventually reach some kind of performance perfection and value will shift to the content.
