According to a story that ran in the WSJ (sub required; I won’t link), Amazon’s full-text search (see preceding entry) hasn’t won over one publisher: Tim O’Reilly. (View the TechDirt article.)

This is a little surprising, because O’Reilly is usually in tune with stuff like this – hell, the O’Reilly site has lots of free online chapters of books they sell – an inducement to buy the dead-tree book, of course.

And this is pretty much Amazon’s goal is, I would think (although they probably have loftier goals, as well).

And – interestingly (to me) – O’Reilly is quoted in article as saying, “‘If [Amazon ends] up being a Google for published content…we need to think better about what publishers get out of it.”

Which is pretty much what I alluded to in my last entry.

I wonder what really went on there…it seems like something O’Reilly would be all over.