CNN reports that efforts by the Open Book Alliance (which includes Google Book’s biggest rivals, Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon) are starting to pay off as the U.S. Justice Department urged a federal court judge to reject the settlement that would allow Google Books to scan vast numbers of books, entire libraries and install them online.
Our friend Jorgen pointed us to My Way News for more in-depth coverage of the same story.
Things are heating up, but there’s a long way to go before you can count Google Books out. They’ve taken it this far, and they’ve got the resources to out-fight anyone on the corporate front.
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