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OpenDeadTree: Google’s patent on turning 1s and 0s into ink on paper takes the shine off my inner Rachael Ray

Tuesday, November 20, 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 opportuni...


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