I see that Google is leading the commercialisation of libraries. They will be scanning millions of books (@ $10-$20 per book)in order to be able to offer access to a richer (inter)network of information.
A Blog, which is short for Web Log, is another form of publishing going digital on a micro-scale. Making digital libraries will have interesting effects on the publishing industry in general, and on book publishing in particular.
I wonder whether fiction writers of the future will be submitting internet addresses to agents, or editors working for the Publishing Divisions of Software Giants like Google, as opposed to the sending of manuscripts that need to be printed and sent and returned to the addressee.
Google has raised over $1.3 billion in their recent IPO, which is a heck of a lot for a company based on some nifty mathematical formulas in something as simple, in theory, as a search engine. Who would have thought that designing a really good search engine would be worth billions?
Another company doing well is Mozilla Firefox, which is a free web browser. Since November when it was made available, Mozilla has been downloaded more than 10 million times. This is because Internet Explorer has been found to have dozens of serious vulnerabilities.
I use Firefox to avoid the malicious content that streams undetected through IE. Virusses also find their way into a computer simply by hijacking some of IE processes.
Firefox can be downloaded here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
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